Google unveiled Google Flight Search today, their own flight search engine that is the product of their 2010 acquisition of ITA Software — the company that powers most of the big travel search engines. This being Google and all, rest assured that no one is going to allege the site [...]

In what has got to be the greatest surprise bit of news I’ve heard since hearing that Arrested Development was going to be made into a movie, Poltico recently quoted Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as saying that the shoes-off screening at American airport security lines may be on the [...]

I really get irked by that sub-genre of travel writing/storytelling that I’ll go ahead and term Hostel horror stories — and I refer here to Hostel the movie, not the category of accomadations. You know what I’m talking about, the story plucked from the hundreds — no thousands — of amazing [...]

The travel community collectively felt a pang of anger and sadness with news this weekend that the two American hikers who have been held in Iran for over two years now, Shane Bauer, 28, and Josh Fattal, 29, were sentenced to jail for eight years for illegal entry and espionage. [...]

You would think that Kim Jong-il’s most important addition to culture would have been his glorious ability to look at things and make us ponder the meaning of the universe (or why one needs to wear wraparound sunglasses to observe lettuce). But in actuality, perhaps his most lasting monument to [...]

When the good folks at the YouTube taught us that a delightful volcanic eruption occurs when Diet Coke and Mentos are combined, we thought the wonders of the world-renowned soda had reached it’s peak. But in a recent video posted on the blog Notions Capital, we see that the Coke [...]

Travelers have been visiting Machu Picchu for 100 years now, ever since Yale University professor Hiram Bingham III rediscovered the site on July 24, 1911. But with increased traffic, site degradation, and bureaucratic wrangling, many are left wondering: How much longer will visitors be able to visit Machu Picchu? Much [...]

Have you met Arlan? If not, in the coming months you’ll have a better chance to meet her than most people you don’t know. You certainly are more likely to meet her than me. (That’s also because for the last two years Matt Stabile has held me captive in his [...]

The Travel Channel announced today that it has greenlit production for The Layover, a new original series hosted by Anthony Bourdain (of, as if you didn’t know, No Reservations). The show is scheduled to premier at the end of this year, and will run for ten episodes, each an hour [...]

I’m pretty laid back when I’m traveling, happy to be on the road and committed to not letting anything spoil my good mood. But there’s one thing that really gets me, and it has to do with when the plane lands. Why is it that certain people feel like they [...]