There’s something about cruising up to the Jet Blue terminal on the very Disney-like monorail that is the AirTrain at JFK Airport here in New York that makes you feel like you were leaving one city and entering another. A very busy city, at that. Which made me wonder: What [...]

11 million people visit Thailand every year. So who which country outside of Asia visits Thailand the most? Coming in at number one is Australia with 520,090, followed by the United Kingdom at 670,904, the U.S. at 496,812, India at 494,223, Germany with 438,171, France at 339,201, and in seventh [...]

I’ve recently discovered my daily ass kickings at the hands of the Stairmaster in my gym are tempered by back-to-back showings of Jeopardy and No Reservations. They seem to do a good job of keeping my attention away from the wheezing gasps of air coming out of me for at [...]

Rough Guides has this handy chart breaking down their estimate of how long you can travel in various parts of the world with a $1,000 in your pocket (this is based on a “barebones budget (hostel dormitories, street food) with about sixty percent of the time spent outside the expensive [...]

Trick question. The answer is that it depends. Are you in Spanish or French Basque country? What’s the difference? To find out, the NYT takes a road trip through both countries, starting from the westernmost part of the region in the beach town of Bakio — about an hour north [...]

Vroom Vroom Vroom’s published their list of the world’s top 10 unusual drives on Earth, from the world’s steepest (Baldwin Street Dunedin, New Zealand) to the most picturesque (the Dalmatian Coast Road, Croatia). That’s all nice and good, but where’s the adventure in cruising your Fiat along the Adriatic or [...]

It’s been three years since the Lonely Planet Micronations hit the shelves. Assuming this one isn’t sitting on your shelf (it’s not on mine); I wondered where I had to go to say I’ve visited one of these pint sized nations. At any given time, there are numerous of these found [...]

One of the first questions people asked me ahead of my trip to Africa back in the fall of 2009 was how long the flight was, to which I would answer, “I don’t know, a few hours.” Well, it was actually 14 hours, 55 minutes, by far the longest flight [...]

Do you ever get that sinking feeling while you’re looking over your pictures after you’ve come back from a trip and realize that your photos are woefully lacking in any interesting shots of exotic and notable bathrooms? Yeah, I think it happens to everyone. But to fill in those gaps, [...]

Having just discovered Montreal’s own foray into the modern bike-sharing world with “Bixi,” it got me thinking: Montreal must be one of the world’s top biking cities. And lo and behold, T+L has confirmed my suspicions, with Montreal coming in at number #4 behind, not suprisingly for anyone who’s been [...]