First and foremost, staircases, whether straight, spiral, bifurcated, curved, L-shaped or U-shaped, are designed and built to provide access between floors or to the top of a structure. However, to many architects and engineers throughout the centuries, staircases were works of art, engineering marvels, and a means to an end. For some artists, plain public ... [Read more]
Photo credit: Finnish Lapland, Pixabay Is chasing the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) at the top of your travel bucket list? Trippy user, Valerie Axworthy has it on hers, and she asked: Chasing the Northern Lights, where should I go and when? It is at the top of my bucket list to see the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights), and I want to start planning my ... [Read more]
How would you define “craziest”? Is it steep, like the roads in Valparaiso, Chile with 40-degree gradients? Or is it crooked, like Lombard Street (San Francisco), known as the “Crookedest Street in the World”? Or is it like the ones encountered by Trippy member, Janelle Kennedy: Any road in Israel scares the crap out of me. Not because of the road ... [Read more]
"Trippy allows you to ask a very personal specific question and get very relevant answers back from people who know this destination and are travel geeks, as I like to call us." -JR Johnson on Bloomberg TV's "Street Smart" Yesterday, our CEO stopped by Bloomberg TV to talk about what Trippy is and why it's so useful. Check out the full ... [Read more]
There are plenty of reasons to visit Los Angeles but in fall and winter, when temperatures begin to plunge in most places, Southern California is still perfect, and heavy winter coats are not required. The city is sunny 300 days a year, and the average high temperature is 75 degrees Fahrenheit. In fact, you won't find an unpleasant season in Los ... [Read more]
Until this point in our history, we have not found another planet teeming with life like our own. We continue to search, but it has become clear that what we have in planet Earth is something special, at least within the scope of our understanding. Our planet is naturally divided into continents and oceans, so the first question that comes to mind is ... [Read more]
