Meander Beyond the Margin! e-Marginalia is the immersion travel community where adventurous travelers celebrate the art and artifacts from their authentic cultural travel, adventure travel, humanitarian travel, alternative travel, ecotourism and good, old fashioned secrets-of-your-own-neighborhood travel. [More...]

John Davis: Prepping for TrekEast

Posted Mon, 2010-12-13 03:48 by virtualDavis

Close friend and neighbor John Davis is making final preparations for his epic 4k journey on foot, bike, ski, etc. from Florida to Quebec.

Flying the Crack

Posted Mon, 2010-11-29 13:35 by virtualDavis

Jeb Corliss flying the crack is not for the faint of heart. This stunning YouTube video chronicles Corliss' human-flying-squirrel stunt over Switzerland in a Wing Suit. He lived, physics be damned!

Deliberately aimless

Posted Fri, 2010-11-26 16:33 by virtualDavis

Waterloo to Thames (59)

There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency,

Clever Pup cum Paris Flaneur

Posted Wed, 2010-11-10 17:19 by virtualDavis
Galeries Lafayette Dome, by Hazel Smith (aka The Clever Pup)
Just like dominoes... I saw a boy, 9 or 10,  trip into a display of mannequins at Galeries Lafayette and bang, bang bang, bang, bang - all five plaster ladies toppled onto the floor; their arms and legs falling off in the process. The poor kid. In passing I whispered, "C'est OK", but he started to cry despite his age. He told his mum he was hurt, but it was just his pride. The day before, my minibus driver told me that the word "gendarmes" meant "people with arms". Now these mannequins were "gens pas d'armes"... (The Clever Pup)

Rockaway Taco & Surf

Posted Wed, 2010-11-10 10:33 by virtualDavis
Rockaway Taco video via La Flâneur

Feeding hungry grateful folks in Rockaway during the summer, sneaking in a little surfing when you can, then heading off to parts exotic and remote for uninterupted surfing during the off-season... Thank you Laura (@Flaneur999) for finding and sharing this inspiring video!

Wandering or Traveling

Posted Wed, 2010-10-06 14:33 by virtualDavis
"I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment." ~ Hilaire Belloc

I stumbled upon this quotation quite accidentally this morning. It intrigued me. Gave me pause. Provoked my disagreement...

Soul Lag

Posted Sun, 2010-10-03 15:29 by virtualDavis

Soul Delay
Soul Delay by James Morrison, on Flickr

Did you ever get back from traveling and feel like you're not quite at the top of your game? This is especially true with long distance jet travel. You step into a glistening time capsule in Istanbul, for example, and not too long after you step back out of the time capsule into the sunlight of Newark, New Jersey. You're tired and addled. But there's something more. Soul lag.

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