March 6, 2008
Seeing and hearing whales in Iceland and why we travel articles
This article is mostly about hydrogen power in Iceland, but since the story focuses (in part) on a whale watching ship I thought it was worth mentioning here. Especially because the hydrogen power allows the ship to shut down its engines when whales are spotted. This means that tourists get to hear the whales swim and blow water.
I don't know what whales sound like, but if you're going to see them it seems to me that you might as well hear them as well.
Iceland is the first of 17 slides in this article. I really like this article which has pictures and positive travel experiences from real people. Of course one slide is a passage from Robert Byron's (1933) from “First Russia, Then Tibet” but mostly these are ordinary people sharing happy travel moments. Besides Iceland and Moscow we have Tokyo, Mexico, Sweden (where we get a genealogical travel experience - cousins showing a traveler the actual house where her grandmother was born), Montenegro, Kyushu, Peru, China, India, Turkey (Cappadocia - a place I really want to visit), Macedonia, Colorado, New Mexico, and Rome (one of my all-time favorites).
Anyway, this article put me in a great mood and certainly left me looking forward to some more travel experiences. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Posted by James Trotta at March 6, 2008 11:31 AM | TrackBack
Very interesting travel articles. Thanks for posting.
Posted by: travelfan at March 6, 2008 10:31 PM