Yahoo! has just launched a new adventure travel site, “Richard Bangs Adventure.” “Who is Richard Bangs, what’s this adventure travel all about, and why should I care?” you may be asking yourself.

According to the Yahoo! ‘Richard Bangs Adventure’ site, “If anything separates Richard Bangs from your average world-traveling vagabond, it is that he invites us along for every wild ride.

He lets us sit shotgun on wild first river raft descents, get splashed with hippo mucus, feel the spray of frothy water in our faces, and hear the affectionate hum of exotic, disease-carrying insects in our ears. With Richard as river guide and adventure-travel executive, as magazine writer and book author (with more than a dozen titles to his credit), as filmmaker and Internet-travel pioneer, his virtual and live fellow travelers have paddled African rivers, journeyed to Antarctica, trekked to Himalayan mountain thrones, bestowed digital cameras upon New Guinea highland villagers, and made the first 21st-century Western foray into Libya.”

OK, I have a couple of observations here. First, what is “Internet-travel?” It would seem as apocryphal as time travel, and yet apparently Richard Bangs does it…

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