I was going through this Top 10 Ethical Tips for traveling to see how ethical (or, more likely, unethical) my travel usually is. Well I can’t say that I’ve planted any trees on a trip like #2 suggests (I planted some cucumbers and tomatoes in my backyard here in Brooklyn [...]

In what may be a telling sign of the troubling economic times we are in (wow, that was such a lofty introductory clause, I should totally send in some ideas to Obama’s speechwriter) the “gap year,” or what could more accurately be described as a forced extended vacation with no [...]

Planning on traveling to America soon? The U.S. Homeland Security Department, like the rest of the government, is clearly at the forefront of cutting-edge technology, requiring visitors to the U.S. who normally would have to fill out paper applications at the airport to go on the “internet” and apply 72 [...]