This picture reminds you of your last flight, right? Where’s the tray table jabbing your mid-section, you ask? Where’s the sleeping septuagenarian resting on your shoulder? Why don’t you see empty bags of pretzels lying about? This, my friends, is the world of first-class travel. Come my fellow plebians, let [...]

. . . Okay, maybe not the best, but it’s got to be at least in the top five or so. Having watched Warner Herzog’s “Encounters at the End of the World” for the first time last night, I was astounded by the fact that such a simple premise — [...]

Manning the controls of TheExpeditioner can often be a delicate waltz (something like Seinfeld’s Elaine Benes might be more accurate). Here, Matt lets us into his 2010 plans and lessons learned along his ’09 travels. 2010 Destinations: There are extremely cheap flights from the U.S. to Central America this winter, so [...]

It’s almost ethereal to think that my home-and-native-land gets to host the 2010 Winter Olympics in just over a month. I am proud that British Columbia gets to flaunt its grandiose beauty to the world. Back home in Toronto, a friend from Vancouver told me an apt description of the [...]

It was announced this week that New York City had 45.25 million tourists last year, making it the U.S.’ top city for travel for the first time since 1990, surpassing Orlando, Florida. Of these visitors, 36.7 million came from the U.S., while a healthy 8.6 million came from abroad (though [...]

  Fresh off a year teaching and traveling the Far East, Jon is now in Montana studying the art of skiing powder and looking for any excuse to post a picture of “The Wonder Girls” on this site. 2010 Destinations: I’ve recently been offered an irresistible square meter of floor [...]

Brit is holding down South America for TheExped, specifically Buenos Aires, and perhaps eating some of the best beef imaginable. She shares her thoughts of ’09 and possible destinations for 2010 with us. 2010 Destinations 2010 will start, for me, out of need. I have to renew my tourist visa, thus Uruguay, [...]

Since Christmas, it appears that flyers bound for the U.S. from Canada are going to have to pack a little lighter. In the wake of an attempted attack on Delta Airline Flight 253, Canada has tightened security in the nation’s airports, brought to my attention by an article in The [...]

Happy New Year Everyone! In the midst of all the “2009 Travel Trends” articles, “Best Destinations of 2010″ previews, and “The Past Decade in Travel,” it’s hard not to feel a bit nostalgic this time of year. All of us at TheExpeditioner.com put our collective heads together and decided to add our [...]

Check out these 11 amazing pictures from Spiegel of the newly-opened Burj, “Dubai’s newest symbol of megalomaniacal opulence [that] can be seen from Bedouin oases in the desert up to 100 kilometers away.” I like picture #4 which describes how the so-called “Chimney Effect” would work on the massive tower: [...]