Just to the east of Yosemite National park and north of Mono Lake is a town that time forgot. Bodie was a booming gold mining town before the mines played out. When [...]

Not every park in the United States national park system is as large as the grand canyon. This unassuming house outside of Boston is the original Kennedy compound and in this house [...]

Good thing that Heathrow’s airport security was paying attention. ‘Drunk’ United Airlines pilot arrested at London airport LONDON – A United Airlines pilot was arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport on suspicion of [...]

The Amateur Traveler talks to Rachel about Seoul, South Korea. Rachel is a college student from Hong Kong who studied in Seoul for the Summer. She talks about historic palaces, museums, customs [...]

This photo of my wife Joan with a serious case of the giggles at the Alhambra in Granada Spain is one of my favorite travel pictures and one of my favorite pictures [...]

Once again this year the Amateur Traveler is nominated for a podcast award. Thank you to all who nominated the show. The 2008 Podcast Awards Voting open till Nov 6th. You may [...]

People go on about how expensive prices in Western Europe are. I’m sitting here in Paris sipping a decent red wine I bought for $3 a bottle. I can travel all the [...]

If travel makes you nervous already then you probably should not read the following story. TSA tests scanners to measure anxiety Newspaper accounts are using words like “Orwellian” and “the stuff of [...]

With this post I hope to start a weekly series on America’s national parks and monuments. In southern Utah, only a few hours drive from Las Vegas is Zion National Park. Early [...]

The Amateur Traveler talks to Robin Noelle (author of next year’s edition of the Moon Guidebook for Puerto Vallarta) about Puerto Vallarta. Robin talks about the beach, the food, the jungle and [...]