5 Travel Magazine to Subscribe To

For those of you who prefer to physically hold a publication that you are reading, here are 5 excellent Travel Magazines that you can get delivered direct to your door. For the rest of you, you can check out the online versions of these magazines too.

Arthur Frommers Budget Travel

Arthur Frommers Budget Travel, tries to provide unique ideas for travel around the world. As the name of the magazine suggests, one of the main focuses is to provide information that will hopefully save you $$$ where ever you travel.

Subscribe to Arthur Frommers Budget Travel at Amazon

Check out Arthur Frommers Budget Travel online

National Geographic Traveler

As expected from the National Geographic, this magazine focuses on domestic and foreign destinations, personal travel reflections, food and restaurants, great places to stay, photography, trends, adventure, ecotourism, road trips, cultural events, and travelers. Features also include TravelWise that provides complete mini guidebook for planning your trip.

Subscribe to National Geographic Traveler at Amazon

Check out National Geographic Traveler online

Conde Nast Traveler

Traveling anonymously means that writers for Conde Nast Traveler can provide credible, truthful information that you can rely on for planning your next trip. Don’t expect budget vacations to feature here, but you will not have to be a millionaire to use Conde Nast Traveler to plan you next vacation. Added bonus is the Gold List, Hot List and Reader’s Choice issues that are filled with the world’s best places to eat, drink, shop and stay

Subscribe to Conde Nast Traveler at Amazon

Check out Conde Nast Traveler online

Travel +Leisure

Looking to find the best travel spots around the world, then check out Travel + Leisure. You will find, the best hotels, best beaches, best food and much more in this monthly publication. With insider information and travel tips helping to reduce the stress of vacation planning

Subscribe to Travel +LeisureTravel at Amazon

Check out Travel +Leisure online

Wanderlust

Is the UK’s leading independent travel magazine (and a personal favorite). Having just celebrated it’s 15th anniversary in 2008. Wanderlust is for independent-minded and adventurous travelers who are ‘looking for world class information and advice about where to go, what to visit and how to get there‘.

Subscribe to Wanderlust

Check out Wanderlust online

What’s your favorite printed travel magazine or online travel magazine?

HydraCoach Intelligent Water Bottle

Have trouble keeping track of the amount of water you drink during the day?

The folks over at HydraCoach can help with there Intelligent Water Bottle. The company claims it’s the ‘world’s first’ interactive water bottle, that ‘calculates your personal hydration needs, tracks your real-time fluid consumption, paces you throughout the day, and motivates you to achieve and maintain optimal hydration’.

The HydraCoach Intelligent Water Bottle:
Monitors the total amount of fluid you drink in a day
Updates you with the average amount of fluid you are drinking per hour
Timer displays amount of time you have left to reach your daily goal

The Intelligent Water Bottle is available in orange, blue and smoke.

If you really feel the need to track your fluid consumption to this degree, then check out the HydraCoach Intelligent Water Bottle.
Available at Amazon for around $28

Leica M8.2 Special Edition Safari

Got a cool $10,000 burning a hole in your pocket?

If so, you could try to get your hands on one of these limited edition (500 to be made) Leica M8.2 Safari digital camera. For $10,000 you get a 10.3 megapixel M8.2 Leica with a 28mm F2.8 Summicron lens, with the top cover, bottom plate, camera back and the leatherette ‘VULKANIT’ covering all coated with a resistant olive green paint finish. Reminiscent of something from the 1940’s.

Don’t worry about having to buy an additional bag, as the good people of Leica have also thrown in a camera bag from Billingham.

The Billingham Combination Bag M „Safari” is made of water resistant fabric „FibreNyte” and can take the complete „Safari” Set as well as further lenses and accessories

If $10,000 for the Leica M8.2 Safari is stretching your budget a bit too far, then take a look at the regular Leica M8 10.3MP Digital Rangefinder Camera.

The Leica M8 can be found at:
Amazon for $5,495

Olympus Stylus Tough 8000

The Olympus Stylus 8000 claims to be tough and here‘s why.

Withstand a drop of 6.6ft
Withstand up to 220lbs of pressure
Is submersible up to 33ft
Is freeze proof down to 14F (-10C)

Along with it’s tough capabilities the Stylus Tough-8000 gives you 12 megapixel camera with a 3.6x Wide-Angle Optical Zoom, Dual Image Stabilization along with the following features:

Olympus Recommended Button “OR”, that allows you to easily access In-Camera Panorama, Shadow Adjustment and Perfect Shot Preview functions.
Tap Control, allows you to tap on the body of the camera to control some of the camera’s functions - no button pressing required, thanks to the internal 3D accelerometer.
Use either xD-Picture Card or microSD memory cards
2.7-inch LCD with Advanced HyperCrystal III LCD (twice as bright as previous models)
Auto Mode, automatically identifies what you are shooting (i.e. Portrait, Night + Portrait, Landscape, Macro and Sports)
In-Camera Panorama mode, simply press the shutter and slowly pan across the scene. The camera will take 3 shots and automatically stitch them together.

You can pre-order the Olympus Stylus Tough-8000 at:
Amazon for around $399

Road Mice Optical Wireless Mouse

Not exactly a travel gadget, but a potential gift for that car fanatic in your life. The Road Mice Wireless Optical Mouse is a uniquely designed replica of some of the current muscle cars of the US auto industry. Suitable for both desktop and laptops (though you might want to use it at that next big business meeting).

The Road mice gives you:
800-dpi resolution
Individual (VIN) Serial Number
Built in Automatic Timer Shut off
Working headlights
Personalized Registration and Title
Requires 2 2AAA batteries

Available cars include:
Dodge Charger SRT-8, Dodge Charger - Police Car, Chevy Z06 Corvette, Ford Mustang GT, Chevy Camaro, Dodge Viper SRT10, Chevy Camaro Police, Dodge Challenger, Chrysler 300 HEMI C, Chrysler PT Cruiser and Ford GT

Road Mice Optical Mouse available at:
Amazon for around $45

Belkin Messenger Bag

The Belkin Messenger Bag is designed to protect your laptop as well as give you plenty of storage, while still keeping a small and light footprint. The bag comes in two sizes to accommodate a 15.4” or 17” laptop and both models include a fully padded laptop compartment, along with a removal pouch for your power adaptor and cables.

Made from 100-percent polyester fabric, the ‘Built-for-You ‘organization inside, allows you to organize your MP3 player, business cards, pens, etc.

Available in jet/cabernet, chocolate/tourmaline, dove/peony, dove/tarragon, the 15” version measures 13 x 16 x 5 and the 17” version measures 14 x 17 x 5

Available at:
Amazon for $35

Western Digital My Passport Essential Portable Hard Drive

The Western Digital My Passport Essential is portable hard drive that you can take with you on your business travels or even vacations. The drive is powered directly through USB, so no external power supply is needed. Measuring in at 0.59 x 4.96 x 3.14 inches, makes the My Passport Essential is easy to transport on your travels.

Compatible with both Windows and Macs you can synchronize files between home and office and with the windows version, encrypt everything on the drive for added security.

This portable hard drive is ideal for:
Storing or backing up your digital music, videos and photos.
Carrying important files and e-mail between work and home or business trip.

The My Passport Essential Portable Hard Drive is available in a variety of colors and 250, 320, 400 and 500GB:

Available at:
Amazon for $80 - $130 depending on storage capacity.

Nautica Clamshell Duffel Bag

We’ve all been in this situation at some point. It’s the end of your vacation and you realize that you’ve bought too many things to take back home and now you figure out how to get them back home.

If you had packed the Nautica Clamshell Duffel Bag, you would not have to worry. Closed the bag measures in at a mere 4×9x9 inches, small enough to fit in your suitcase or even backpack. Open the Clamshell Duffel expands to 21×9x9 inches, big enough to fit those extra gifts you bought and perfect for taking on the plane, as it conforms to current airline carry-on policies.

Made from a resilient deck-cloth fabric with molded foam-protected side pods for stability when expanded, the Nautica Clamshell Duffel Bag retails for around $80 at Amazon

DryGuy Wide Body Boot and Glove Dryer

I have to admit until I found these on Amazon, I did not know you could get a dryer for boots and gloves. But having seen this product, it makes perfect sense.

If you are an outdoor (any type of weather) person, then putting on cold (even damp) boots or gloves is just not the way you want to start your day. DryGuy Wide-Body Boot and Glove Dryer gives you four extra tall air chambers that blasts heated or unheated air on up to 4 pieces of gear at once. After about 1 hour boots and gloves (or what ever) will be dry. Even if they are already dry, you can use the DryGuy Dryer to warm your gear with a quick blast of warm air.

More info:
Uses Forced Air Technology
Air temp when heated 99F
3 hour timer

The DryGuy Wide-Body Boot and Glove Dryer retails for around $90 and can be found at Amazon and other retail outlets

Heatmax Hot Hands 2 Handwarmer

The Heatmax Hot Hands 2 Handwarmers are designed tp provide up to 10 hours of warmth inside gloves, pockets or wherever you feel cold. They are perfect for skiers, hunters, fishermen, golfers or anyone who is out in the cold for long periods of time.

Made from natural, odorless and non toxic materials (including iron powder, water, salt, activated charcoal, and wood fiber) the Heatmax Hot Hands are activated by exposure to air (no batteries required). Once the activation starts, it takes about 10 - 20 minutes for the warmers to reach there optimal temperature.

Packaged in pairs.
Small size (2.25” x 4”)
Produce heat (130F)
Individually sealed in airtight package to guarantee a shelf life of six years.
Nontoxic, nonflammable

A box of 40 Heatmax Hot Hands 2 Handwarmers retails for around $35 and you can find that at Amazon.

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