Travel, Cruise

This week we finally caught up to the movie “Into the Wild,” and while we still like the Jon Krakauer nonfiction book better, we were thrilled by the sweeping vistas of off-the-beaten-path Alaska captured by director Sean Penn. Since our 49th state has but one communal Craigslist page, we thought we’d offer an all-Alaska edition […]

We already know that Santa is hanging out in Kyrgyzstan instead of the North Pole this year. Now the big man’s hosts plan to name a mountain in his honor and put together some real-life reindeer games like chimney climbing and sled racing.
The Central Asian country–just south of Kazakhstan–has lots of remote and unnamed peaks, […]

Andy Warhol fans are in for a treat if they can get to the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia in the next few months. A major new exhibition featuring pieces from a number of galleries across the world will come together from January 4 to March 28, 2008.
Along with a bunch of Warhol […]

Mike Huckabee is glad to remind you that Jesus is the reason for the season. The former Arkansas governor traveled further into Iowa’s heartland this week, hitting up the small towns of Dike, Marshalltown, Waterloo and Manchester. While John McCain chose to share a message with audiences in Iowa about a Christmas spent as a […]

Clearly, on-board casinos, Broadway-style shows, movie screening rooms and even that annoyingly over-hyped rock climbing wall weren’t enough to keep Royal Caribbean’s passengers amused between tropical ports of call. Over the past decade, the cruise ship juggernaut saw fit to outfit its Voyager family of ships–including a couple of the world’s largest passengers vessels–with a […]

Two more holidays to go. First Christmas, then the New Year. After that, you can dial back the chaos for a while, at least until Spring Break, right? Mod cons or no, travel is still something of an endurance test, and long haul travel at the height of the season? Ay yi yi. If there’s […]

This is indeed big news. The merger will make the combined sites the fifth largest travel search site, according to today’s press release."Kayak.com intends to maintain both the SideStep.com and Kayak.com brands and will develop and promote each site independently, with key SideStep.com personnel joining Kayak.com’s team.  The merger will combine best practices of each […]

Yes, you really can book these deals. Ft. Lauderdale to Vegas for $32 RT is our fare of the day.
This sale ends on Dec. 21, and seats will sell out fast. Different travel dates for each route.
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There was no new Project Runway episode on this week but the reality TV gods must have been smiling down upon us for as we got an afternoon snack at Viceroy on 18th and 8th Ave in New York’s Chelsea, we spotted everyone’s favorite costume pageant designer Chris March standing outside looking a little confused.
He […]

Big sis HotelChatter has found a great Tokyo hotel for us for New Year’s Eve, and Japan’s coolest city is certainly a great place for us to celebrate the start of 2008.
The Japanese like to celebrate the coming of the new year, or oshogatsu, by visiting a temple to pray–choose one of the big Tokyo […]