Daily Radar: 07.28.09

Last week the Travelocity Roaming Gnome
paid a visit to our friends at the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corp as part
of his six weeks of summer vacation. Check out more pics from his visit
to the City of Brotherly Love here. In this photo, from left to right: Paul Clarkson (6 feet 6 inches tall), Roger Estes [...]

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• Last week the Travelocity Roaming Gnome
  paid a visit to our friends at the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corp as part
  of his six weeks of summer vacation. Check out more pics from his visit
  to the City of Brotherly Love here. In this photo, from left to right: Paul Clarkson (6 feet 6 inches tall), Roger Estes (5 feet 3 inches tall), the Travelocity Roaming Gnome  (2 feet tall) and the Travelocity Roaming Gnome replica.You can follow the Gnome, and offer him travel tips, on Twitter (@roaminggnome).

• Danish cartographer Rene Larson claims that a medieval map showing America just might be real. The map, which was discovered in the 1950s and is titled “Vinland Island,” appears to date from 1440, which predates Columbus. “All the tests that we have done
  over the past five years — on the materials and other aspects — do not
  show any signs of forgery,” Larsen told Reuters.

• Check out BrilliantTips’s photo essay of the “Seven Alternative Natural Wonders of the World,” which include the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland, Wave Rock in Australia, and Iceland’s moss-covered lava flows of Hafnarfjordur.

Photo: M. Edlow for GPTMC

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