Travel, Cruise

Updated and revised August 2
When in Rome you probably know pretty much what to do by now. You hang with the locals and follow their lead (and Vespas) as they help you put your own spin on la dolce vita and teach you to twirl the spaghetti uncustomary gusto and wear you feelings on your […]

Today is day one of No-AA-Fares-on-Kayak, and the travel search aggregator has issued a statement that finally clarifies why you won’t be seeing American Airlines‘ fare info on the site anymore. (You’ll still be able to check the carrier’s schedules, but to find the actual cost of those flights, you’ll have to manually check another […]

Hey, did you see the videoHotelChatter posted from the reopening of the Atlanta Marriott Marquis? We’re definitely checking it out the next time we’re in town!
Check in first if you need someone to party with–it worked for R. Kelly!–and then hit the town to find your hotel-bar partner in crime:
Octane Coffee and Lounge :: This […]

Still need something to do this weekend? Get to St. Louis pronto–and don’t worry about packing anything, since the World Naked Bicycle Ride starts at 9 pm Saturday. The 10-mile ride starts in Tower Grove Park and proceeds to Atomic Cowboy on Manchester, where there will no doubt be lots of slippery nipples.
Race organizer Mariah […]

Travelocity’s new site redesign is much better than before, but sadly not everyone can see it, and the site is crashing.
Oddly, we were able to see the new look only on Firefox/Mozilla and only on one computer in the office (we’re on Macs here at HQ). But as of 2 PM today, the site is […]

Words prove inadequate to capture the majority of life’s
most poignant moments and gripping emotions.
This morning I breezed by the empty bedroom, door wide open,
dusty abandoned papers – the sum of eight years of private school in Ghana -
left in sliding piles… Where the door would once be almost closed, the hum of
the airconditioning purring […]

We normally disregard all those handy stretching guides in the back of airport magazines, but moving around in the terminal can forestall the plane jitters. That’s why we love the Aeroports de Paris plan to offer in-terminal dance lessons at Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports this summer.
Learn anything from tango to twist on your […]

You still have two months to plan your visit to Durham, North Carolina for the 2008 World Beer Festival. Presented by All About Beer magazine, the festival is celebrating its 13th year in the Tarheel State. The event takes place on October 4 at the much upgraded home of the Durham Bulls, The Durham Athletic […]

Give me your tired, your poor, your costumed masses yearning to break free: Japan welcomes wacky performance artists everywhere to the World Cosplay Summit held this Saturday and Sunday, at which presumably cosplayers will issue a statement solving the problems of the world.
In all (or most) seriousness, the event, which includes a parade and the […]

In Canada we like to believe that violent crime does not happen but of course it does. Sensationally violent crimes, however, are so infrequent that they are not part of our collective consciousness. When I got up this morning and heard the news that a man had stabbed and decapitated another passenger on a Greyhound […]