I'm a big fan of the 36 Hours column in the New York Times Sunday Travel section. Usually I like to read it to learn what there is to do, hour-by-hour, in cities that I'm interested in visiting. But I also enjoy reading the column when it covers a city that I know well because […]

It’s one of the great ironies of hotels that the higher room rate, the less likely it is to include breakfast. And if you want a good laugh, just take a look at the room service menu, where breakfast always seems to have the highest markup. And the hotels make the morning meal so tempting, […]

Today was a great day for Travelogged. No, it wasn't because I was traveling — although I am planning a very exciting trip. Today was great because WIBlog, the blog for Where I've Been, gave Travelogged a glowing review. Katy Lynch, the Where I've Been community manager, especially liked my posts about my trip to […]

(photo of Arua, Uganda, by Sanjoyg/Flickr) I don’t usually think about or talk about Uganda. After all, I’ve never been to the country that Winston Churchill dubbed “The Pearl of Africa.” And its safety and stability seem to keep it out of the headlines. But in the past few days, it seems that Uganda is […]

As you may recall, in January I wrote a post about the Best Job in the World contest. Tourism Queensland (as in Australia) launched a global search to fill the position of "Island Caretaker," who would live on Hamilton Island for six months and blog about the experience of being right by the Great Barrier […]

(photo by CW Yee/Flickr) When I was in Key West, I had the chance to take a boating excursion to where the dolphins like to hang out, but the water was very choppy that day so I opted to kayak in the calm backcountry mangroves instead. I thought that I might see dolphins in Costa […]

(photo by Space Ritual/Flickr) Today the big travel news story is that Obama has eased travel restrictions to Cuba. Now, Americans who have relatives in Cuba are allowed to visit them whenever they want. They are also allowed to send an unlimited amount of money to them. This is especially poignant when you consider that […]

When I went to the NYC Easter Parade, the most creative hats I saw were on a family who were victims of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme. Well, Recessionwire, which covers the cultural and practical aspects of this economic downturn, liked them too and asked me to write something about it for their site. You can […]

(photo by Cardoso/Flickr) Yesterday, I wrote a post pondering why Jaco, Costa Rica, was completely empty when I was there on Tuesday. Well, today I have my answer: everyone had ventured northwest to Santa Teresa to get ready for Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen’s wedding! Santa Teresa is a surf town on the Nicoya peninsula […]

National Buy a Newspaper Day was on Feb. 2nd, so I'm a little late for that. But if you want to (gasp) buy another newspaper, then travel lovers should pick up the New York Times this Sunday. That's because in addition to all the good stuff you usually get on Sunday (Travel, Styles, Week in […]