David Fegan tries SLACKLINE for the first time in Rosario, Argentina.
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How I Made Money Sitting in the Sun Drinking Beer
For 33 years I had no interest in horse racing, but that was soon to change.
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Atypical Travel: The Life of A Traveling Ice Hockey Player
Naoki Kaneko travels the world playing ice hockey. He’s this week’s guest on Vagabond Journey’s Atypical Travelers series.
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What the Super Bowl Means to the Traveler
The Super Bowl comes each year, and each time it does it marks our place on the map, showing how far we’ve come since the last big game.
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The Money Russia Spent on the Sochi Olympics in a Stack of $1 Bills
How much is the 51 billion dollars that Russia spent on the Olympics really?
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End of an Era: The London Olympic Cleanup
The London Olympics are over, what are they going to do with all of those new buildings?
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Dragon Boat Festival
The Duanwu Jie, or the Dragon Boat Festival as it is better known in the West, is a Chinese holiday that happens on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month and consists of throwing zongzi into rivers and racing dragon boats.
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Olympics Show That NBC and American Networks Won’t Adapt to the New Media
I connect my VPN to a server in the UK and open BBC Sport’s Olympic coverage page. I now have 24 different events that I can watch live streams of at my fingertips. The choice is mine: do I want to watch swimming or do I want to watch basketball? I can select the events [...]
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Playing Football in Cape Town: The Aftermath of the 2010 World Cup
It’s always exciting to begin a new year – and, as a Londoner, 2012 is all the more auspicious, as the Olympics arrive in our fair city this summer. Billions of pounds of investment have gone into regenerating London’s East End rust-belt, transforming chemical-stained land into a gleaming athlete’s village. But what’s going to be [...]
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Where are Soccer Balls Made? In Mongui, Colombia
MONGUI, Colombia- “What, do soccer balls grow naturally around here?” I proclaimed in exasperation while searching for a place to eat in Mongui. “I’ve seen five places selling just soccer balls and not one restaurant.” When I was teetering on the verge of thinking that this little pueblo at the end of a road in [...]
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