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Why Ditching Preconceived Notions Can Make For Better Travel

Why Ditching Preconceived Notions Can Make For Better Travel Michael Stout, Flickr Raise your hand if you've ever had heightened expectations or an ill-informed idea of a destination prior to a trip. Me too. Many things influence our preconceived ideas about a place: daydreams, prejudice (I'm using this word in its traditional ...

Cruise Ship Back In Baltimore After Fire, Repairs Continue

Cruise Ship Back In Baltimore After Fire, Repairs Continue Chris Owen When cruise ships come to town, civic leaders rejoice. The floating resorts bring with them jobs and tourism dollars that might be otherwise elusive. In May, Baltimore, Maryland, welcomed Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas to town with gusto, as the state's ...

Jamaica Bans Smoking Tobacco, Marijuana Is Another Matter

Jamaica Bans Smoking Tobacco, Marijuana Is Another Matter Project Zaldivar26/Flickr Banning smoking in public places is not all that uncommon as popular destinations worldwide look to promote a healthy environment for visitors to enjoy. But to some in the Bob Marley-induced culture of Jamaica, tobacco smoke is not the issue. ...

A World Health Map

A World Health Map Odra Noel is a scientific artist who has just created and released a piece she called "The Map of Health." The map provides a visual representation of diseases affecting regions of the world. What's more is that she uses depictions of affected body parts by each disease ...

Photo Of The Day: Bahamian Perfection

Photo Of The Day: Bahamian Perfection aarongilson, Flickr The view above, captured by Aaron Gilson, is an incredibly common Bahamian sight: perfect crystal blue water distinctly visibly from space, sand just the right shade of white and a little bit of an unpolished edge. The island chain just off the Atlantic ...

5 Ways To Preserve Your Travel Memories (That Don't Involve Photos)

5 Ways To Preserve Your Travel Memories (That Don't Involve Photos) LEOL30, Flickr If you're an avid traveler, chances are you've experienced some type of fantastical sight, to which no photograph can ever do justice. Talent and camera quality have no bearing whatsoever on the ability to capture this moment, and so you resign yourself to ...

Sir Richard Branson Applauds Airline Complaint Letter

Sir Richard Branson Applauds Airline Complaint Letter Paul Kane, Getty images Sir Richard Branson, the self-made billionaire of Virgin fame, must have some spare time these days. The business mogul has taken it upon himself to applaud a humorous airline complaint letter that went viral. Written by tennis pro Arthur Hicks, the ...

Tired Of Caribbean Islands? No Problem: We'll Make More, Say Cruise Lines

Tired Of Caribbean Islands? No Problem: We'll Make More, Say Cruise Lines breezy421/Flickr After a few sailings in the Caribbean, North American cruise travelers can get tired of going to the same islands. Their cruise vacation may be a great value and easy to do but they want more. The problem is that ships can only go so far before having to ...

Jamaica's Air Traffic Controllers Call In Sick

Jamaica's Air Traffic Controllers Call In Sick Aero Icarus, Flickr Jamaica's airports only experienced a small hiccup this weekend as the country's air traffic controllers staged a sick-out in protest over low wages and mismanagement of the civil aviation authority. The posts were quickly filled by supervisors and ...

Travel Dream Jobs: A Conversation With Megan McCormick Of 'Globe Trekker'

Travel Dream Jobs: A Conversation With Megan McCormick Of 'Globe Trekker' Whenever I need a little escape but can't get out of town, I fire up an episode or two of "Globe Trekker" so I can live vicariously through the adventures of travelers like Megan McCormick. Since she started hosting the show in 1997, she's taken viewers to the Greek Islands, ...

How Far Can You Get On Three Wheels? Piaggio Ape Adventures

"Taurinorum Charity Rally 2012 - APEMAYA Official trailer" from Taurinorum Travel Team on Vimeo. On my recent trip to Italy, I fell hard for the tiny Piaggio Ape (say AH-peh, means bee in Italian, for its pleasant hum), a glorified Vespa scooter with a truck bed or a back ...

Meet Pat Farmer, The Aussie Who Ran 20,919 Kilometers From Pole To Pole

Meet Pat Farmer, The Aussie Who Ran 20,919 Kilometers From Pole To Pole Just weeks before Pat Farmer was scheduled to depart for a 20,919-kilometer run from the North to the South Pole, his major sponsor pulled out and he was faced with a choice: give up his dream to be the first man to run Pole-to-Pole or sell everything he owned to finance the ...

Nicaragua Canal Set To One-Up Panama Canal

Nicaragua Canal Set To One-Up Panama Canal U.S. Navy, Flickr Today, the Nicaraguan National Assembly is expected to rubber-stamp a $40 billion proposal by a Chinese consortium to build a canal across the country. The new canal will be over 150 miles long, dwarfing the famous Panama Canal. The idea of a canal ...

Learn Spanish With Lonely Planet's Fluent Road

Learn Spanish With Lonely Planet's Fluent Road Courtesy of FluentRoad.com Traveling to Spain or Latin America this summer and want to say more than "Donde esta el bano?" (though, that's an important one to know)? Lonely Planet has just launched a new online foreign language program, Fluent Road, partnering with Spanish ...

Photo Of The Day: Guatemalan Ice Cream Truck

Photo Of The Day: Guatemalan Ice Cream Truck Adam Baker, Flickr I'm traveling in Sicily this week, and was reminded how crummy the aptly named Continental breakfast can be in this part of Europe: a cup of coffee (the only time of day it is socially acceptable to have a cappuccino, incidentally) and a roll or small ...

Coping With Post Holiday Blues

Coping With Post Holiday Blues Travel is a beautiful escape from reality. There is no finer way to remove oneself from life's dirty, mundane realities than to plan a trip. Hate your job? Have a broken heart? Bored with your lot in life? Step right up and book a ticket to just about anywhere. The trip ...

A Traveler In The Foreign Service: What Impact Does Moving Have On Children?

A Traveler In The Foreign Service: What Impact Does Moving Have On Children? If you're a parent who is interested in an international career, you've probably worried at one point or another what impact your peripatetic lifestyle will have on your kids. One of the most common questions I get about the Foreign Service is how the lifestyle affects ...

Relaunched Cruise Ships Bring Sunshine and Magic

Relaunched Cruise Ships Bring Sunshine and Magic Disney Cruise Line In the world of cruise travel, the big story is often about the latest, greatest, biggest cruise ships to be launched and what they have to offer travelers. Those new floating resorts often command the highest fares as cruise travel fans line up to book ...

Hotel News We Noted: May 11, 2013

Hotel News We Noted: May 11, 2013 It's the weekend, and you know that that means – it's time for "Hotel News We Noted," your annual wrap up of the best, wackiest and downright odd hotel news of the week. Spring has sprung in the hotel world, and we're seeing tons of openings from major brands and ...

Sonya Looney: World-Class Mountain Biker, Traveler

Sonya Looney: World-Class Mountain Biker, Traveler The only thing Sonya Looney racks up faster than victories on the international mountain bike circuit is frequent flier miles. Between racing and her day job – she works in sales and marketing for Ergon, one of her cycling sponsors – Looney's on the road two ...

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