January 2012
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YOUR GUIDE TO THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Every Traveler speaks of it in hushed tones, and many of them give it a cutesy nickname: “the Big Black” is currently favoured, but in the past it’s been called “the last,” “the swallowing dark,” and “Clarence Clemons playing flat” (and wasn’t that an annoying week). Most Travelers avoid it like the plague, which is understandable ...
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SAFE HOUSE - The Caravan Of The Green Tents,...
The immense and glittering trade empires of the Sahara are often overlooked by Travellers, usually because they’re in the middle of the Sahara, but people heading for the Golden Lions of Mali can get a little help from the Caravan Of The Green Tents. Although mostly populated with regular contemps, the actual Caravan was started by a group of wealthy Emirate and Saudi extempts looking to...
December 2011
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NOME DU TRAVELER
Traveling through the Middle Ages? You’ll need the right kind of name to blend in: Here’s a huge list of them sorted by region.
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SAFE HOUSE- BUTCHERS & BAKERS PUBLIC HOUSE 30...
Okay this is a strange one. Owned by a family of Recreationists, B&B is devoted to maintaining its Georgian atmosphere no matter what the Era. This means no cell phones, no computers, and no excessively modern dress. So why go at all? Two reasons, you can obtain 17th Century items in the 21st, making it a valuable pre-Trip stop, and you can still smoke in the backroom if you don’t mind...
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ON THE GROUND - AKHETATEN - EGYPT 1341 BCE...
On the east banks of the middle Nile, Akhetaten was built as the new capitol for heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten (also known as King Amenhotep IV). Between Memphis and Thebes, Akhenaten sought to reform the confused and ornate state religion into a monotheism based on Aten, the sun disc. Which handily happened to talk to Akhenaten. His reforms were short-lived, providing the first opportunity to...
September 2011
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SAFE HOUSE - 87 RUE TAITBOUT Paris, France 4eme...
A Safe House has stood on this site since 1538 but the form most appealing to Travelers is from 1840 onward. A truly elegant apartment, 87 Taitbout is owned by a group of like-minded Travelers for the purposes of establishing residency in Paris. It also serves as a warm (and highly decorated) bed for the weary, but due to its role as a private apartment, discretion and blending are a...
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THE TOP FIVE FOOD CARTS OF MESOPOTAMIA
5. Dates! Dates! Try My Fresh Dates Sahib! Babylon 721-689BC, Oxen-pulled cart travels daily between the Homera and Hammurabi’s Palace
In a land so used to invasions, where every few centuries a new military sweeps through knocking everything over, you might expect the merchants to cultivate an attitude of insularity out of simple fatigue, a Parisian standoffishness, when confronted...
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NIGHTLIFE REVIEW - LIBERTATIA, MADAGASCAR 1700s CE
“Yo Ho Ho And A Carefully Measured And Recorded Bottle Of Rum”
If he has any mind at all, the first thing a Traveler does is check to see if ancient, mythical settlements did in-fact exist and the second thing a Traveler does is come home bitterly disappointed. Libertatia, the so-called “Pirate’s Republic” in Madagascar founded by pirates pillaging ships and freeing slaves...
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SAFE HOUSE - The Little House Of The Setting Sun...
Ersatz tea houses and “Full historical Geisha Experiences” are epidemic to the Hartley crowd and litter Edo Japan like clay pipes but The Little House Of The Setting Sun is the real deal. Well, close to real as you can get without making a damn fool of yourself.
Owned by the Institute Of Transtemporal Anthropology, students are required to maintain, service, and run the Tea Rooms as...
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ON THE GROUND - THE VELVET UNDERGROUND - DEC 11th...
Saturday, December 11, 1965 Summit High School Fans of American protopunk often limit their excursions to 1966 and later, and certainly don’t venture beyond the big three cities of London, New York, and LA. But those travelers willing to journey to the hazy hinterlands of suburbia are in for a rare treat: the first performance of the newly-Christened Velvet Underground at a high school dance...
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ASKING DIRECTIONS
Need to ask how to get from there to here in Rome Circa 450 CE? OmnesViae has you covered.
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SAFE HOUSE - The Cave Of The Great Bear - South...
Time to get back to the good old days, the days before agriculture came around and gave us this stupid civilization thing. The Cave Of The Great Bear on Gibraltar is a specially set aside area for Travelers who want to face nature head on or just want to enjoy a few quiet evenings at the Dawn Of Man. While some pre-historic fauna is present, The Neanderthal tribe is the main draw here and...
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BEYOND TOWELS - TEN ITEMS YOU ALWAYS NEED
The Kit. It’s the most basic item a Traveler has. That small box or bag of essential supplies that means life or death for the erstwhile adventurer. While they can range in size from a gunny sack to a full caravan, many travelers overlook the these simple items you need to make your voyage a successful (and comfortable) one.
First Aid Kit
It’s a shame we even have to mention this but...
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ON THE GROUND - Latis Festival, UK, 62 BCE
Rite Here, Rite Now
What could be better than a raging British party with singing, dancing, drinking and maybe a little human sacrifice? No, not 6 November 1975 — 6 November 62 BCE! That’s when the late fall Latis festival kicks off for a week of wicker, wine and women. Latis is the god of mead and totally smashing someone else’s face in for looking at your kilt funny, so...
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SAFE HOUSE - DRAVNIEKS KONTOR 7 Mazā Alūksnes...
Run by members of the North Europe Hanseatic League, this Kontor serves as a local social hub for extemps, with board game nights and moon pies in the commissary. Its location in Riga puts it out of the way enough that no contemps get paradoxed, but travelers striving to keep local accents shouldn’t spend more than a night or so there.
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NIGHTLIFE REVIEW - "OUR AMERICAN COUSIN" USA,...
“The Play That Killed Lincoln Won’t Kill Your Night Out”
Ford’s Theater, April 14, 1865. Mere mention of the date makes me cringe. Ford’s Fucking Theater, that gaudy parade of Tourist claptrap with everyone sitting on their hands trying desperately to soak up the powerful and moving scene. The souvenirs alone are enough to make the more with-it traveler wish for a...
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ON THE GROUND - GROSSE POINT RACE TRACK, USA, 1901...
Thursday, October 10, 1901 Noon At the recently moved Detroit Driving Club, which, despite its name, is generally a horse-racing track, two titans of early American automotive industry face off: Alexander Winton, a dashing Scottish mogul fresh off victories in Cleveland and Chicago, holder of the mile speed record, and widely regarded as the best racer in America from 1897 to 1903; and ...
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SAFE HOUSES - AN INTRODUCTION
It’s 1330, do you know where your next battery is? Traveling is hard work and even the most experienced can fall prey to local superstition, broken glasses, or a sudden need for antibiotics. Enter the Safe House. Part of the General Rules, Safe Houses are places where Travelers can let their temporal hair down and speak Modern English without worry. Most are stocked with supplies ranging...
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THE SEVEN MOST OVERRATED SCENES IN HISTORY
Xanadu A stately pleasure dome? Maybe if you’re out of your gourd on opium, but it’s a pretty standard tourist trap, where you’re shuttled in to meet the “Khan,” or whatever high schooler they’ve drafted to receive your offering, then funnelled through a standard palace and gardens route by donkey carts. There’s a zoo, but five hundred elephants isn’t that much more impressive than two...
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ON THE GROUND - DELOS 102BCE
Everyone loves the high Hellenic culture of Athens and Plato’s Academy isn’t to be missed (with Bill and Ted and Socrates), but the cult center isle of Delos offers more fun at cheaper prices with fewer tourists. By the beginning of the first century BCE, Delos was a thriving multi-culti commercial center under Roman protection, but without the later religious crackdowns brought by demigod...