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Continually updated post on all the necessary long term travel info and gear.

Websites:
CouchSurfing: See the city from a locals point of view, and their living room from the resourceful CouchSurfing site.
Gmail: Best email! Use this for my domain account and @gmail address.
Google Documents: Don’t ever need to use Word on the road again. Google Documents is offering all the editing you’ll need, online from anywhere.

Gear:
Leica Minilux - Leica’s finest point and shoot camera. Great for pros and anyone looking for great film shots out of their pocket.

Transportation:
Mediterranean Ferries - map and list of carries for ferries in the Mediterranean sea.
Kayak - Great airfare search, haven’t tried other search categories.

Destination Research:
BootsnAll Travel Forums - personal experiences in far off lands.
WWOOF - budget travel and work in the worlds most exotic places.

Moleskin launches a new set of city specific notebooks for the traveler hitting many of the big spots across the globe. The new notebooks include maps, street index, pockets, and of-course blank pages.

Individual(!) notebooks include: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Prague, Rome, and Vienna.

Burning Man is back and soon all of those closet hippies and hipsters from the cubical next door will be packing up their buses with drugs and generators for a couple nights out in the desert. Here are some guides that might help you make it out alive:

Burningman.com’s Required Reading Guide for 2006
Black Rock Rangers Survival Guide
Wikipedia Burning Man article
Google Maps view of Black Rock City
Packing List
Piss Clear: Favorite Black Rock City Newspaper
You’re bringing a bike right?

Berlin has one, so you know the New York City subway system has to have a custom Google Map.

NYC Metro Google Map
Berlin Metro Google Map

Staying in Rome is pushing ridiculous with this weak American dollar in my pocket, so the team has come up with some cheap spots to crash your vino soaked brain:

Blue Hostel, Via Carlo Alberto 13 00185
Great spot near the train station, owner of the hostel met me outside the station and carried my bags back to the apartment. Recommended because there’s not much ‘hostel’ about it. € 40 Double

San Pietro (Bed & Breakfest)
Caring family provides clean rooms with breakfast and great balcony to boot. Within walking distance of some great attractions and alleys to explore. Includes apartment wide WiFi. € 79 Double

Hotel Rosetta Via Cavour 295 B/1
In the Monti neighborhood this Hotel is easy to get to from the Termini and is surrounded by most of the big attractions every first timer is going to be looking for. € 60 Double

L’Incanto di Roma Via Collina 36
Cheap private double rooms and even cheaper large rooms for bigger parties. Around the corner from Villa Borghese and the Spanish steps. € 40 Double

Google hacked map of Berlin’s subway system. Public transit planning if the metro wasn’t easy enough.

Berlin Metro Google Map

I dig my Not for Tourists guide, especially when it’s free:

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