Archive | May, 2013
World on a Fork

Global Entry: How to Cut in Line at Airport Customs

*Getting through the airport is, for most, the least desirable part of traveling. Sure, you have found time to read magazines and catch up on email, drinking at 9am is perfectly acceptable, and your iPod and the moving walkways can become reverse cinematography where you are the star of your own movie intro. But beyond […]

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Who is Shorpy Higginbotham?

Shorpy was a real person, a young boy who worked as a greaser in a coal mine. In 1910, his photo was captured in Jefferson County, Alabama, by a photographer named Lewis Wickes Hine. Now, more than 100 years later, that photograph has inspired a cult following on the wildly popular website bearing his namesake: Shorpy.com. The […]

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