We are pleased to announce that Uncornered Market is on the ballot for Best Travelogue at the 2009 Lonely Planet Travel Blog Awards. Many of you nominated us in January; it’s thanks to your support that we are one of the finalists.
So we ask again for your help. If you enjoy the articles, photography and occasional video that you see here, please take a moment to vote for us before March 20, 2009. Go to the Lonely Planet Travel Blog Awards website and scroll down to Best Travelogue where uncorneredmarket.com is listed. Then place your vote. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Blogging by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
2 Comments | 27 February 2009
The Golden Kite of Burma (Myanmar): the trail connecting Rangoon (Yangon), Bagan, Mandalay, and Inle Lake.. These four locations form a common itinerary for visits to the country. Their golden stupas, fields of ancient Buddhist pagodas, floating villages, and royal palaces tell a story of place caught between its modern-day struggles and an underlying narrative of a bygone era. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Burma (Myanmar), Southeast Asia, Travel by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
1 Comment | 25 February 2009
Yesterday, our website was out for roughly 24 hours. Tragic? Certainly not. But maddening and disappointing it was.
If you attempted to visit yesterday, only to be rewarded with dead space and cryptic system messages, we apologize.
We thank Dreamhost, our website hosting provider, who in its infinite wisdom decided to schedule a move of our website in the middle of the day without informing us before throwing the kill switch. In a perfect storm of technical misfortune, our website move also coincided with a handful of other system-wide outages at Dreamhost. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Blogging, Technology by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
7 Comments | 18 February 2009
“How do you spend 24 hours a day together for two years and remain happily married…let alone sane?”
The answer to that oft-asked question is the stuff of a future blog series. In the meantime, I remind people, “It wasn’t always so.” There was a time when Dan and I were separated for 27 months. He was in San Francisco and I was in Estonia. And that was before Skype. Continue Reading »
- Love in the Age of Skype
- How to Travel the World Together Without Killing Each Other
Filed Under: Personal Growth, Technology by: Audrey Scott
16 Comments | 14 February 2009
Can somebody please come up with a better name for the ongoing financial crisis? Vote in the poll below with your choice.
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Filed Under: Polls, United States by: Daniel Noll
6 Comments | 13 February 2009
On Thursday night I attended the launch of the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy’s National Initiative* at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The crowd was typically Washington, D.C. (if you’ve ever lived there, you’ll understand). PhDs, former diplomats, the NGO community, and graduate students were all represented.
So how did I end up there?
I was trying to answer the question: “Do travelers like us offer any value to America’s public diplomacy efforts?” Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Perspectives, Travel by: Audrey Scott
19 Comments | 7 February 2009
I remember my first taste of what was supposed to be Burmese food at a restaurant in San Francisco. There was none of the coconut milk and fragrance of Thai curries and the spice palette didn’t inspire like it did in Indian cuisine.
Underwhelming, I thought.
However, during our visit to Burma (Myanmar), we quickly appreciated Burmese cuisine for the beauty of what it is: an Asian cuisine fused from Southeast Asian, Chinese and Indian influences.
Armed with that perspective, we found Burmese food a pleasure. Street food was varied, accessible and inexpensive. Restaurants were similarly enjoyable. And we were even invited for a few home-cooked meals. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Burma (Myanmar), Food by: Daniel Noll
18 Comments | 4 February 2009
