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Save/ShareGreat travel ideas from other travelers can be found at a new website, Here or There. Travelers post their most amazing travel experiences, and other readers rate how cool they think these trips are. Like Flickr or YouTube, this site uses a clever algorithm to calculate which stories, photos, and videos are the most popular, counting the number of times each tale is viewed, noting how well it is rated by other travelers, etc. Recent trip ideas include auditioning for a reality TV show called Shipwrecked, riding a Maglev train in Shangahi, visiting Salvador Dali's house, or checking out the Druids of Nebraska. Unfortunately, Here or There is still new, so it still lacks a critical mass of stories. In other words, it'll take a lot more users to submit stories before it becomes as engrossing as Flickr and YouTube.
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Great travel writing: If you're looking for some laughs, consider reading what is one of the funniest stories ever to be published at World Hum: The Joy of Steam. This story will make you laugh out loud as you follow the conversation between two guys nervously entering a scary Turkish bath and stripping down. Along the way, the writer painlessly passes along some historical insights, such as the fact that Turkish baths were/are actually Roman baths, updated and adapted by Ottoman culture. (The story was included in last year's edition of Best American Travel Writing.)
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