Sentences with phrase «year of slow travel»

We have just entered our seventh year of slow travel and the things we value have shifted too.

Not exact matches

Southwest has used the sales to generate buzz and — perhaps more importantly — to sell seats during what are usually some of the slowest travel periods of the year.

I wondered why they chose to travel the slow way in horses and buggies and why they dressed as if they had just stepped out of Laura Ingalls Wilder's books and why my grandpa got frustrated that they would buy his colleagues dairy farms and immediately rip out all the milk machines, manure spreaders, and pasteurization equipment had been installed over the years.

But air - travel restriction won't help slow a flu pandemic much, three model studies concluded earlier this year — especially when compared to the judicious use of vaccines, antiviral drugs, isolation, and quarantine.

Met Zack, graduated college, moved to New York City, got into the animation / advertising industry, partied my ass off, traveled, got married, moved to Brooklyn, slowed down, had a baby, and now I'm a mom of an almost 1 - year - old.

The breathtaking, richly eloquent, and visually - poetic film - deliberately filmed at a slow pace - about space travel and the discovery of extra-terrestrial intelligence (many years before Star Wars (1977), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)-RRB-, was based on the published 1951 short story The Sentinel, written in 1948 by English science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke.

Fresh off nabbing the Grand Jury Prize in the World Dramatic category at this year's Sundance, Slow West is an angular neo-western about an Irish teenager (Smit - McPhee) who travels across frontier America in search of his lost love, only to partner up with a grizzled gunslinger (Fassbender) who seems too dangerous to trust.

The reverential tone and slow pace take some warming to, but there's much to delight in as Tale of Tales takes hold, not least Garrone's belief in the power of these stories to travel through the years.

Set in the 19th century, Slow West tells the story of sixteen - year - old Jay Cavendish (Kodi Smit - McPhee), as he travels from Scotland to Colorado in pursuit of his lost love.

On their seventh year of travel, 15 countries and many personal changes later, Lainie (mum) and Miro (16 year old son) continue to slow travel, living an inspired possession - free - lifestyle, volunteering and learning naturally from the world.

In answer to your question, after 6 + years of full - time travel, my pace of travel has slowed and slowed (and slowed some more), and now I'm setting up a home base in Grenada.

Though it was a slow travel year overall, I think I did manage to make the most of my opportunities.

New Year, New Adventure: Valerie says tearful goodbyes to friends in Ascoli Piceno but she and Bryan plan to take advantage of a stay in a villa of a friend on the Costa del Cilento and practice faster «slow travel».

We did slow down our travel schedule slightly towards the end of the year — compared to 2013 — which basically means we were a lot more picky about which destinations we chose to explore.

Photo Essay, People of the Rift Valley www.slowphotos.com/photo/showgallery.php?cat=3294 >> Slow Travel, www.slowtrav.com Prize: Two year premium supporting membership on the Slow Travel Message Board and Slow Travel goodies (tote bag, 4 luggage tags, 1 mouse pad, 1 baseball cap).

In the midst of a slow week of news in the Miles and travel world a welcomed surprise arrived at my office yesterday: I had almost forgotten that I finished last year strong, and reached my goal of -LSB-...]

As promised here are some of our favourite slow travel experiences from the last three years on the road.

I have been running a number of different tours for Slow Travel Berlin over the past year, including a neighbourhood stroll through my home kiez of Wedding and some walks along the Berlin Wall Trail, which also tie into my new project at Traces of a Border.

We've been travelling permanently for two years and eight months now and our pace has slowed dramatically but slow travel is not a measure of time, it's a measure of impact.

American Airlines puts many of its economy class award redemptions on sale for travel during off - peak times of year when demand slows.

I'm a huge advocate for slow travel, spending two weeks (or a year) in one place, getting to know it, instead of crossing items off a list.

, it's a case of there's so much more to write about from my last few years of travel, so they'll have to wait until travel slows down a notch.

In March 2014 Gary will have been continuously travelling for 7 years with little sign of slowing down.

These are the slowest travel days of the year — Wednesday, November 28 through Wednesday, December 12, 2012, and then again from Monday, Jan. 7 through Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013.

Thirty, which doesn't seem like a lot considering we've been travelling pretty much constantly for the past three years, but because of house sitting we've done a lot of slow travel and we've spent at least a month in: Australia, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece and Thailand.

After covering over 20,000 km and 25 countries this past year, we plan to shift into slow travel, basing ourselves in the food - obsessed city of Hong Kong for a while.

If you have the flexibility to travel during the slowest times of year, the so - called «dead weeks» of early December and early January, you can save 50 - 70 percent on airfare or hotels.

I think living in one place for a period of time gives you such a different insight into that country and culture and I'm a real fan of slow travel (as you'll notice given how small a distance I've covered over the past three years!).

As many of you know, I've been traveling quite a bit with Ben this past year, which has been unforgettable and dreamy, but I've slowed down in recent months and started work in the travel industry, a space I was familiar with before meeting Ben and now...

I would recommend purchasing tickets far in the future and travelling during slower times of the year.

The result is that some of today's newest container ships are now traveling between Asia and the West at speeds as slow as the clipper ships of the China trade 150 years ago.

If we try to predict what the situation might be in California two years from now by looking at a time - traveled progress report published in the summer of 2017 concerning the impacts the Governor's order actually had on the process of managing state government — we might conclude than anything under the sun can and will happen, including the possibility that the processes state agencies use in making their decisions are gummed up to such an extent that all of California's regulatory and planning activities which affect environmental issues slow to a crawl or even stop altogether.

Many people have put off expensive travel over the past few years in favor of «staycations» (vacations at home with family) due to fears of the economy, unemployment, and slow job growth.

The travel industry has seen its fair share of major changes and developments in recent years, and 2012 shows no signs of slowing down.

Uber's self - driving car was traveling at a speed of 40 mph when it struck a 49 - year - old woman in Arizona Sunday night, and did not show significant signs of slowing down, police said today.

«But there's an analogy that I use: When you're traveling at 80 miles an hour for five or six years in a row, and all of the sudden you come into a 50 - mile - an - hour zone, you feel like you've slowed down precipitously.