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Folk art on wheels: art cars on a roll

04/30/10
(AeroCar 600: a 1959 BMW 600 turned airplane, by Dave Major) I had way too much fun this week learning about the wild and wacky world of art cars while putting together a slide-show on the topic for msnbc.com: Folk art on four wheels: art car celebrations around the country. One of my favorites was →

Grimms’ Fairy Tales at Dane County Regional Airport

04/28/10
A National Geographic website about Grimms’ Fairy Tales offers these words of advice: “Looking for a sweet, soothing tale to waft you toward dreamland?  Look somewhere else.” That’s because the stories Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected in the early 1800’s don’t always have happy endings. There are witches. There are wolves. And there are creatures →

Vintage airline air sickness bags

04/24/10
Reading back through the Delta Air Lines blog this week I noticed an entertaining entry from archives manager Marie Force: an airsickness bag from the mid-1960s that has a gin rummy scoreboard on one side: And an aviation quiz on the other! That led me to visit the Air Sickness Bag Virtual Museum, of course, →

Lots of garbage at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport

04/22/10
I prepared for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day by spending the afternoon with garbage at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA). First up:  an exhibit featuring  artwork by Dorothy Rissman made from trash she found on city streets, construction sites and beaches. Next: an introduction to the airport’s six pair of shiny new, computer-monitored trash compactors, →

Tidbits for travelers: free buffets at JFK; free flights to nowhere

04/21/10
Volcano-delayed flights to and from Europe and beyond are resuming, but airport closures and flight cancellations may continue on-and-off for weeks. So this NYT tracking map may be handy for a while longer. In the meantime, people have been opening their homes to stranded passengers and theaters, museums and restaurants have been offering discounted and →

Souvenir Sunday at Fairbanks International Airport

04/04/10
It’s Souvenir Sunday, the day we focus on fun, offbeat and inexpensive items you can find at airports. And I’m tickled that this week’s Souvenir Sunday items come to us from Fairbanks International Airport (FAI), courtesy of Bobbie Egan of Alaska Airlines. The first souvenir she sent over is this teeny-tiny brush, which has a →

Singapore’s Changi Airport celebrates Year of the Tiger

02/12/10
The Chinese New Year will be celebrated this Sunday and Singapore’s Changi Airport is ready with giant displays to welcome in the Year of the Tiger: Changi Airport also opened up an Aviation Gallery in Terminal 2, with loads of information stations, interactive kiosks, and 600 tiny airplanes hanging from the ceiling. Here’s a “please-touch” →

13 million cranberries, Dusseldorf Airport’s Ski jump, and Amelia Earhart

02/05/10
This weekend would be a good time to have as my superpower the ability to travel anywhere in the world and be in several places at once. If I could, I’d stop first in Richmond, British Columbia, a short SkyTrain ride away from the Vancouver International Airport to watch 13 million (!!) locally-grown cranberries get →
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