People ask me occasionally where I find news for the Amateur Traveler podcast. I am a web 2.0 addict in a very serious way. I subscribe to about 100 podcasts (a future [...]

Since this weeks episode of the Amateur Traveler podcast was on Tahiti I have been looking more into that destination. In my search I found this video diary of a trip to [...]

While Craig and Linda from the Indie Travel Podcast were on vacation I hosted an episode of there show. Check out the episode “Chris takes us to Istanbul“

The Amateur Traveler talks to David Stanley, author of the Moon Handbook for Tahiti, about Tahiti and French Polynesia. Learn places to stay from $12 a night to $1000, where to get [...]

According to safetravel.dot.gov: Effective January 1, 2008, the following rules apply to the spare lithium batteries you carry with you in case the battery in a device runs low: Spare batteries are [...]

With much of the Northern Hemisphere dealing with true Winter (not like here in California) I liked this video from Lisa (a blogger at MostlyLisa.com) who fled the Canadian cold for a [...]

I received an email from Robin Sparks, a friend, travel writer and ex-pat who lives in Istanbul. She gave me permission to share this story. Here’s a small piece from this corner [...]

Visit the Interlaken area of Switzerland with the Amateur Traveler: This video shows Grindelwald, Interlaken and the two castles of Spiez and Oberhofen. click here to download (iPod) click here to download [...]

CC Chapman of the Accident Hash podcast just made a ring tone for the theme song of his podcast. I thing that sounded like a great idea so I have put one [...]

And you thought you packed too much when you went on a trip. Boing Boing had a blog post recently about President Bush’s Travel Entourage. Once you decide to take 250 secret [...]