Tag: Trips

Short Trips from Dubai: Exploring Nearby Gems and Excursions

Discover the best short trips from Dubai, featuring stunning destinations and exciting activities for weekend getaways or quick escapes. While Dubai, a global metropolis and key commercial hub, has long captivated travelers with its iconic skyline, luxurious amenities, and world-class attrac...

6 Day Trips From Edinburgh You Won’t Forget

Hosted in Mid-August, The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo delivers a world-class ceremony event that celebrates and promotes a sense of identity and unity deeply rooted in Scottish tradition. Their story began 70 years ago when Lieutenant Colonel George Malcolm produced The Edinburgh Tattoo intendin...

My 5 favourite day trips from Madrid

The most popular day trip from Madrid will always be Toledo. Also known as the city of the three cultures (Christian, Jewish, Muslim), Toledo used to be the ancient capital of Spain. Toledo is a walled city that will delight fans of everything medieval — there are castles, bridges, cobbled str...

If Taxi Trips were Fireflies: 1.3 Billion NYC Taxi Trips Plotted

The NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) has publicly released a dataset of taxi trips from January 2009 — June 2016 with GPS coordinates for starting and endpoints. Chris Whong originally sent a FOIA request to the TLC, getting them to release the data, and has produced a famous ...

7 Road Trips to Take This Winter

Turns out that Half Dome isn’t the only reason crowds flock to Yosemite — people have been coming here to ice-skate since the 1930s. From mid-November until early March, head to the Curry Village Ice Rink in Yosemite Valley for ice-skating with some pretty epic views of Half Dome and Gla...

3 Life Lessons I Learnt on my First Solo Trip

In the first week of November 2022, I decided to make a trip to the island of Taiwan. It’s been almost three years since I’ve traveled since the pandemic commenced, so I was exuberant to just get the f*ck out of Hong Kong. Initially, I wanted to head to Taiwan to visit and train with ...

Day 3 — Spots for Beginner-Friendly Quick Day Trips around Tokyo (2023)

One of my hobbies in Japan is going on day trips and seeing the old town and the nature. A day trip is a form of traveling in which you go out to visit a destination and return in a single day. This form of traveling is economical, as you do not have to think about the logistics of overnight stays, ...

7 Stages of a Hiking Trip

Hiking it’s a thing around Indonesian youngsters in last few years. Anyone like obliged to do it. They are going hiking for many reasons: from looking for peace, enjoying great outdoors, challenging themselves to creating a stock photo for their Instagram post. The booming of 5 cm movi...

Those Trips Trucking To Long Island

On Friday, pick up at a scrap yard. The most memorable scrapyard, guarded by a Mexican — Army steel pot on, with major dents, in Chicago. Waiting in line, the noise, dust, and comings and goings Other trucks, employees, and the homeless and addicted. Beat up pick-ups, bicycle trailers, ...

6 Things You Need to Know About LSD Trips Before Taking It

There are two key components to a psychedelic trip that you will hear anyone who’s ever taken psychedelics talk about: set and setting. Set is your mindset going into the trip, whereas setting is the environment in which you’re taking the trip — including the people that ...

How to Prepare for Your First Psychedelic Trip

Though psychedelics have always been a prevalent topic, they’ve gained quite a bit of traction in recent years. In fact, psilocybin, the psychedelic substance in magic mushrooms, was decriminalized and legalized in Oregon via a statewide ballot just this past November. And for good reason, too...