The Amateur Traveler talks to Mark about a recent solo cycling trip though Honduras, Guatemala and Belize. Find out about Mayan sites like Tikal and Copan, colonial cities, highlands and jungles and ...

This weekend you will find me again at the 2008 Bay Area Travel Show. I am particularly looking forward to hearing both Pauline Frommer and Rick Steves who are speaking at the ...

If you are going to San Francisco for MacWorld this week and actually get weather that does not include rain, try and get out and see that beautiful city. A while back ...

According to Engadget Disneyland is doing an upgrade to their monorail system. The monorail system has had pretty much the same “futuristic look” for the last 50 years. The new cards will ...

Odd things have been know to happen in New York Subway trains, but I’ll bet you never expected this. According to a story in the Gothamist: In March, four limber women took ...

If you are one of those people who plan their life in advance, who is planning on going to Europe this year and likes to travel by train then you should know ...

A vacation can be stressful enough without adding masked gunman to the equation. But a rising crime in the Baja California of Mexico is apparently making that a more common occurrence. Assaults ...

The first live dial in episode of the Amateur Traveler recorded on TalkShoe.com on January 1, 2008. Show Notes click here to download (mp3)

I am sorry but the Amateur Traveler has gone ad-free because of the non-compete agreement for new job at TripAdvisor.com.

I have been following the adventures of Brian & Brooke at their travel blog “Brian & Brooke Against The World“, a young couple off to discover the world. Their latest adventure in ...