Welcome to the 15th edition of the Anywhere, Everywhere Travel Blog Carnival. The carnival takes place once a month and features some of the best travel writing and photography on the web. As usual, I received tons of great submissions; here are my favorites. JoAnna presents Why People Don’t Travel, Part 2: Lack of Money […]

I like Super Bowl Sunday but I must confess that watching the game is my least favorite part. I'm more about hanging out with friends and watching the commercials. This year I thought that the clear commercial winner was HomeAway.com, a vacation rental service. (I'm a big fan of their subsidiary, VRBO.com, which I even […]

The Mayans predicted that the world would end in 2012. So perhaps that’s why the Ka’ana Boutique Resort (pictured above) in Belize feels comfortable offering this incredible deal where if you book a seven-day stay at Ka’ana Boutique Resort before December 18th, you get seven complimentary days in 2012 as well as airfare from Miami. […]

We decided to splurge on our hotel in Rome, choosing the beautiful historic Hotel Eden, which we got at a pretty good rate from Hotels.com. We really enjoyed staying there but, like many fancy hotels, Internet access wasn’t free. Nope, it was €25 a day plus tax. We’re somewhat addicted to the Internet — and […]

(Fisherman on Inle Lake; photos by Jeremy Willinger) This is the second part of guest blogger Jeremy Willinger‘s posts about his recent trip to Burma. You can read the first part, which focuses on Yangon (Rangoon), here. When you leave the cities of Burma, the country opens up into an expanse of rice paddies, villages, […]

(Temples of Bagan; photos by Jeremy Willinger) Guest blogger Jeremy Willinger just got back from a solo trip through Southeast Asia, where he visited Burma (aka Myanmar), Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. He was especially struck by Burma which, he warns, requires careful planning for even the most adventuresome of travelers. Here, he shares his experiences […]

Welcome to the fifth edition of the Anywhere, Everywhere Travel Blog Carnival. Every other Monday, I choose my favorite blog submissions and post them here. You won’t find any funnel cake or ferris wheels at this carnival, but you will find plenty of entertaining posts to enjoy. Alan presents Chernobyl Exposed: A Tour of the […]

When I returned home from Ithaca, NY, on Sunday, I had a nice surprise waiting for me. Erica Johansson of Travel Blissful had given me a One Lovely Blog Award! When you accept the award, as I gladly did, you are supposed to follow the guidelines listed below to help maximize the loveliness in the […]

I always struggle with how to cover New York City on this blog. As a lifelong New Yorker, I consider this city to be the world's greatest tourist destination and I could easily devote my entire blog to what to see and do here. But one of my goals for Travelogged is to cover as […]

(photos by Malena Georgieva) Lately, it seems that I can't get enough of the American West. I just posted about my friends' road trip through Southern Utah. And I still have more to write about my trip to Northern California. But now I want to share you with some photos taken by NYC-based interior designer […]