{"id":5021,"date":"2011-08-12T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=5021"},"modified":"2011-08-12T08:11:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T15:11:43","slug":"elsewhere-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/12\/elsewhere-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Mozart Ducks by Nerd's Eye View, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nerdseyeview\/6029777037\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6191\/6029777037_ce0bf1015e_z.jpg\" alt=\"Mozart Ducks\" width=\"552\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my wrap up from the Outdoor Retailer show on <a href=\"http:\/\/practicaltravelgear.com\/outdoor-retailer-show-takeaways\/\" target=\"_blank\">Practical Travel Gear<\/a>. What&#8217;s the OR show? It&#8217;s a huge display of gear by companies looking to get their gear onto retails shelves and in between the pages of magazines. It&#8217;s a fun scene, full of people who love to play outside and love to travel.<\/p>\n<p>The one minimally gray cloud over the weekend was the attitude I got from a few dudes who wouldn&#8217;t take the time to show me some of the more performance oriented gear when I said I didn&#8217;t do back country travel. I&#8217;m pretty sure my tent doesn&#8217;t care how it got to the campsite and, dude, camping is an all weather pursuit. Lighten up, activity snob!<\/p>\n<p>That said, I was psyched to connect with Ian from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendmag.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wend<\/a>, Kraig, my fellow Gadling gear head and writer behind <a href=\"http:\/\/theadventureblog.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Adventure Blog<\/a>, Anna from <a href=\"http:\/\/undersolenmedia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Undersolen Media<\/a>, Nathan from <a href=\"http:\/\/away.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Away.com<\/a> &#8230; and oh, my, so many other cool travel and play outside types. Never mind that my feet were throbbing at the end of every day, it was (mostly) a good time.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of gear, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadling.com\/2011\/08\/10\/dopppio-travel-mug-and-more-from-innate-gear\/\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s the first of a smattering of reviews<\/a> to come from all that stuff I laid eyes on at the show. It&#8217;s coffee fueled, but what isn&#8217;t, I ask you.<\/p>\n<p>You might remember how I went to Austria and then, didn&#8217;t get to do anything I had planned to do. Well, I <em>did<\/em> do some eating, and that inspired <a href=\"http:\/\/thetravelersway.com\/beyond-schnitzel-traditional-austrian-food\/\" target=\"_blank\">this piece<\/a>. People, it&#8217;s not all schnitzel all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, hey! This is huge. We&#8217;re open for Passports with Purpose this year and we&#8217;re funding libraries. We love reading! We love writing! We love libraries! Learn more about this year&#8217;s PwP efforts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.passportswithpurpose.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Mozart rubber ducks in a Salzburg souvenir shop window. Yours for EU 10.90. about 15.00 US, because really, who doesn&#8217;t need a bewigged, violin playing rubber duck?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my wrap up from the Outdoor Retailer show on Practical Travel Gear. What&#8217;s the OR show? It&#8217;s a huge display of gear by companies looking to get their gear onto retails shelves and in between the pages of magazines. It&#8217;s a fun scene, full of people who love to play outside and love to &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Elsewhere\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/12\/elsewhere-again\/#more-5021\" aria-label=\"Read more about Elsewhere\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-working","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5021"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5026,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions\/5026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}