Even though summer is coming to an end and my tan will eventually fade away, I get excited for the Fall season since it usually means the start of The Amazing Race! I've been following the show since its debut in 2001…

Presidents have stayed at THE DRAKE, a swank Chicago hotel with opulent suites, that regularly commands more than $300 a night, and last year, thanks to a super hefty Priceline discount this non presidential chick grace…

Read the full article here Imagine just trying to enjoy your vacation in another country, a place so different from your culture. You're trying to respect their culture and instead you are the one being harassed. Corr…

It would be pretty awesome if Airlines could fly us to the moon. Maybe in the next century. Until then, I'm sure many of us travelers or vacationers have been on a few airlines. Since there are so many changes on on fl…

Image Source In our modern times, gold is everywhere; on your girlfriend's pair of earrings, on Donald Trump's toilet seat or even in a very expensive facial mask. But during the Gold Rush in the late 19th Century, gol…

image source A friend told me something was missing in my life, suggesting that I should have a religion. I want to find my true self spiritually but not through religion. So hopefully I would like to travel. I c…

Post from Skylab of artofbacking.com Tubing, the ever so popular backpacker activity in Vang Vieng, Laos. A party haven. What’s tubing you ask? You grab yourself a water tube and simply float along the river. Along the r…

image source On a trip to Washington DC, my friend forgot to pack her underwear! We got there late so all the stores were closed so she couldn't buy any underwear for our first night.

image source I've gotten sick while abroad before and let me tell you, it wasn't very pleasant. I couldn't hold anything down for 2 days so all I ate was bread and drank gatorade. Have you been sick while abroad? Wha…

What are your favorite kinds of museums? Do you enjoy art, history, or other unique exhibits?

image source My friends have been thinking of planning a trip to do some white water rafting. It looks like it'd be fun and I'd love to experience it as well. We just need to figure out where the best place to go is.…

image source Many people plan destination weddings. If you could get married anywhere in the world, where would it be?

image source I'm thinking of getting a travel rewards credit card because I travel a lot and would like to earn some points towards free travel whenever I use my credit card. Does anyone have one? Which one do you re…

image source "A four-star hotel near Venice mistakenly offered a romantic weekend for 1 euro cent a night. Some 228 guests made reservations for the equivalent of 1,400 room nights while the error was on the Web site…

image source I am 16 years old and about to go into my Junior year of High School. Ever since I was little, I always wanted to go traveling abroad. I've decided on going to Australia for a summer program. I was won…

Have you seen any Bollywood movies? Do you like them?

Our a trip to Vietnam, my friend brought along her curling iron with a converter. The iron didn't last very long because I guess the converter didn't work very well and blew a fuse. Also while living abroad, my friend…

In a recent study reported on Forbes, there is a list of some of the cleanest countries in the world. The reason why this study is important because the world is in much more support of a cleaner globe these days. Many c…

My dream career is basically Samantha Brown's job Samantha works as a travel hostess on the travel channel. She gets paid to travel around the world and be on national television. That's awesome!! Another thing t…

If you remember, there was a past post about the Burka+Bikini = Burkini swimsuit. Some thought that the swimsuit was a stylish yet modest way to dress for swimming during the summer and some had other opinions. It se…

Each year, Red Bull holds a cliff diving competition. This video is from 2008. It looks so thrilling and I bet even more nerve wracking just before jumping. Check out the pros in this video. Would you go cliff diving?…

Image Source A non-profit skateboarding school in Kabul, Afghanistan called Skateistan aims to bring people together through skateboarding. Their program offers free skateboarding classes to both boys and girls.

I found this article on Jaunted about great white shark cage diving in South Africa. It sounds so fascinating yet I don't think I'd ever have the nerve to do it. Sometimes I have dreams where I'm stuck in the deep oce…

image source Some people like to join package tours while others prefer to travel on their own. If you had a chance to go on a trip to a foreign country, which would you choose? Package tours are really conveni…

Portofino is a classic everyone-must-go-there-once holiday destination. No new houses have been built since 1935, making Portofino a gem of such shimmering polish that over the years it has dazzled everyone from Clark…

source Now perhaps more than ever, people all around the world are thinking of ways to save both energy and water. However thoughtful others' attempts may be at conserving resources, perhaps just one country has the…

source Swimming pools come pretty standard for the most part, though we've all likely seen variations in size and cleanliness. Not so standard, though, are these 19 swimming pools: exotic, guitar shaped and just pl…

source Working at FedEx means I come across strange names of people (Anita Dick, no joke) and strange names of towns, some of which I have listed below!

source Debate over air travel rules is nothing new: hefty luggage fees and extra charges brought on by airlines in the last couple of years have made passengers especially wary of flying. Recently, though, stemming f…

source Ever wonder what it's like to stand on the grounds in front of Stonehenge? With this 360 degree interactive panoramic view, you can almost experience what it's like to visit the monument; it even feels like yo…

source Last week, 329 hot air balloons were released from the ground in Chambley, France during the biennial Lorraine Mondial Air Balloons rally. Click here to check out amazing pictures and a timelapse video of this…

source The day before yesterday my wife and I crossed the border to visit China as tourists. Because of the difference in income of people in the two places, a poor man in Hong Kong may be considered as a rich man in C…

source When you read about beaches, it's usually to find out where the best ones are or which ones topped a list. Esquire.com, however, gave us a list of the top 10 beaches to avoid, and for good reason. To find out…

source Here, I found a list of The World's 18 Strangest Buildings, as chosen by PopularMechanics. Some of the buildings I thought are just ugly. Others, though, like the one pictured above, are so awesome and bizarre…

This is another tourist destination that is near where I live. One of America's earliest religious communities, the Ephrata Cloister was founded in 1732 by German settlers seeking spiritual goals rather than eart…

source Last week, Princeton Review released the 2009 list of the nation's top party schools. When my friends aren't busy working to make their schools top this list, they like to try and visit some of their friends at…

With broadband connections ten times faster than the U.S. and 90 percent of the population owning mobile phones, it is not surprising that Japan has its own “Electronic Town.” Called Akihabara, it is the center of “o…