Last Saturday I had the pleasure of attending a photography seminar put on by the National Geographic called Putting the WOW in Your Nature & Outdoor Photography. The seminar was talk by ...

The Amateur Traveler talks to Elizabeth who is a VIP tour guide at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Elizabeth will share some of her wisdom on things to do in the ...

When a friend was in town recently and we drove up to San Francisco. When we strolled around Chinatown we stopped at the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory. Now factory may bring ...

As of this afternoon a video on YouTube that is the latest safety video has been viewed 350,000 times. Huh? A safety video? Isn’t this what most people avoid watching on the ...

There is no truth to the rumor that the way my wife and I figured out the itinerary for our next vacation was that we consulted TripAdvisor‘s recent survey to figure out ...

The Amateur Traveler talks to Melissa about her current home Finland. Hear about saunas, summer cottages, mid-Summer celebrations, Helsinki, Turku, and day tripping to Tallinn. Audio clip: view full post to listen ...

This week I had a rare business trip to Atlanta, Georgia. I booked the least expensive flight as usual using an airfare aggregation site. In this case I used Kayak.com as I ...

Visit the Italian Riviera with the Amateur Traveler: Rapallo near Portafino, the ferry from La Spezia to the Cinque Terra. Also visit the southern most of the 5 towns in the Cinque ...

Who thought this was a good idea? Well, you can bet it was not someone with a fear of heights. Dinner in the Sky is part theme park ride and part dining ...

The most recent episode of the wonderful “Fly with Me” podcast dealt with people behaving badly on flights. The host of the show Joe Dion, a commercial airline pilot, remarked that when ...