Are you looking for entertaining or useful gifts for an adventuresome traveler, but want to spend between $5 and $50? Here are some great adventure travel gifts for holidays, or a "go away and have a good time" present any time of year. They range from gloves you can keep on while using an iPhone to a terrific travel pillow, books about adventure travel, and waterproof cases for digital cameras.
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1. Keep Hands Warm While Texting With Swany's I-Finger Gloves
If you're an i-Phone or a Crackberry addict, you'll want Swany's I-Finger gloves. These softshell gloves have a specially treated alum touch screen fingertip and thumb that transfers body energy, so you can keep the gloves on and stay warm while texting or calling.
2. 'No More Sore Neck' Travel Pillow
Lots of people take inflatable neck pillows on planes and long car trips to increase their comfort planes, tour-bus rides and train rides. I did, until I found the Complete Support Travel Pillow. For the first time, after waking up from a nap during a plane ride my neck wasn't sore from being stretched too far over the side of an inflatable pillow. Here's a review.
Magellan's Luxe Complete Support Travel Pillow is a custom-designed version of the Complete Support Travel pillow.
3. Inexpensive Waterproof Cases for Expensive Digital Cameras
My husband, a gadget geek, tested the DiCAPac Alpha waterproof camera case using his Casio Exlim underwater in the Pacific Ocean, on the beach around sea lions kicking up sand, and river rafting near Telluride, Colorado. He got some excellent pictures underwater and on land that he would otherwise have missed. Read his review of the DiCAPac waterproof camera case.
4. Stashsafe Hip Pack Is a Theft-Proof Fanny Pack
Dick Friedland
PacSafe's Stashsafe 100 doubles as a security pouch and a hip pack with roomy compartments. The pack's design ensures no one can slash the belt or the pack itself then steal it, or slide a hand inside and grab your valuables.
5. "Gifts That Give More" at Global Girlfriends
If your spouse/significant other or friends are already loaded with high-tech toys, clothes and other consumer goods, why not give a 'gift that gives more' from Global Girlfriends. For example, $10 or more will help feed kids right here in the U.S. through the Backpack Program, $50 or more may help liberate a girl from indentured servitude in Nepal, and $15 can supply clean water in a school in Tanzania.
The site also has trend-setting clothing, jewelry and other products on the Global Girlfriend website, which sells women-made, fair trade items created by women around the world. A portion of each sale will go a charity.
6. Helmet Covers Are Zipping Down the Slopes
Have you seen those funny hats passing by on the ski slopes? A lot of them are actually helmet covers. Parents love the covers because they can instantly identify their kids on the slopes. The same goes for groups of less-inhibited friends.
7. Inka Pen
Inka Corp.
This tiny pen writes just about anywhere, including hanging from the side of a cliff, underwater or in a snowstorm. It can be attached to a backpack, a scuba vest or any other piece of clothing.
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8. Double-Duty, Double-Voltage Nightlight and Charger
Just plug electronic devices into this reviveLite Nightlight and Universal Charger for a quick charge of portable electronics. The iPod/iPhone dock lets you charge without cables, and a separate USB port provides easy access for other digital devices.
9. Adventure Travel Cartoons Printed on Gifts
If you like to watch someone laugh when they open your gift, check out some of the adventure travel cartoons at www.cartoonstock.com. You can have these cartoons printed on t-shirts, chopping boards, mugs and other gift items.
10. Turn Your iPhone Into a Translator
The Fotozio PicTranslator turns your iPhone into a translator. Can't read a street sign in a foreign country? Just point and shoot a picture on your iPhone to translate menus, road signs, maps, warnings and newspapers. This cheap app will even read the text in the pictures out loud, so you’ll know how to pronounce it. Translates more than 15 languages, from Spanish and French to Swedish and Russian. You'll find it at the iPhone AppStore but take a look at the Fotozio PciTranslator site for tips on how to use it.
11. Adventure Travel Books & Book Reviews
Entertaining and informative adventure travel books make great gifts for people planing adventure trips and for armchair adventure travelers. Some of these books offer excellent ideas on where to travel for adventures and how to arrange these trips and vacations. Other are just wonderful escapism, especially the books that tell tales of adventurer's travels.
