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Cool Backpacks For Photographers
Cool Backpacks For Photographers

Carry your camera gear (and laptop too) in comfort

We bring our camera with us almost everywhere when we travel. So, almost everywhere we travel, we need a backpack that is protective to our camera and comfortable to us. And our backpack must to be built to endure the rigors of road. And we'd like it to ...

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4 High Design, High Value, South Beach Miami Hotels
4 High Design, High Value, South Beach Miami Hotels

Check out the Pelican, the Townhouse, the Standard and the Sanctuary

Yes, there are high design Miami hotels that offer high value too. We've scoured the options and found four especially worthy. Looking for optimal funkiness? The Pelican Hotel is the choice. A beautiful beachfront location? The Townhouse. A pool and spa resort? The Standard. And if you want ...

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Winvian’s Luxurious, Unusual “Cottages”
Winvian’s Luxurious, Unusual “Cottages”

Sleep with a helicopter

There are several cottage resorts around but few are as luxurious—and none are as unusual—as northwest Connecticut’s Winvian Cottages. Really "cottage" is a bit of a misnomer here, suggesting accommodations more simple than the Winvian’s abodes, each of which designed by a different architect and possessing its own ...

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The Pottery Village That Goes Thud in the Night
The Pottery Village That Goes Thud in the Night

The pottery of Onta, Japan

Japan is a modern country, famous for its electronics and technological prowess. Thankfully, a few little pockets of the old, traditional Japan remain. Such as the wonderful little village of Onta.

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NYC’s Best Budget Boutique Hotel
NYC’s Best Budget Boutique Hotel

Swim up to the affordable, cool, Room Mate Grace Hotel

Walk off of New York City's Times Square and into the Room Mate Grace Hotel and here's some of what you'll see on the hotel's ground floor: a stylish lobby, a sauna, a gym, a steam room and a pool with a swim-up bar. In the morning you'll ...

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Backpack, Meet Wheels.
Wheels, Backpack.
Backpack, Meet Wheels. <br>Wheels, Backpack.

Great backpack + great wheeled bag = Osprey Meridian

This post has been updated—see our new review of the Osprey Meridian (and Sojourn) Wheeled Backpack Convertibles. In the comments section of our recent overview of cool gifts for travelers, Cate, blogger extraordinaire over at The Caffeinated Traveler, saw our inclusion of the Osprey Meridian Wheeled Backpack and exclaimed ...

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