There is always some danger of people getting sick when you pack people into a closed space like a cruise ship, but some ships get sicker than others. At least 340 sickened ...

The Amateur Traveler talks to Casey Wohl the author of the Girls Getaway Guide to Key West about Key West Florida. We will talk about how the area has changed in the ...

When you are riding on elevated mass transit it is usually more comforting when the train doors are closed as riders in Vancouver discovered recently. SkyTrain runs with doors open SkyTrain passengers ...

In Travel to San Francisco (episode 159) of the Amateur Traveler I interviewed to Richard Miller of the SparkleTack podcast (about San Francisco history) about San Francisco. Richard guided us in a ...

If you have not heard the story of Matt Harding. He is guy who went around the world and did a little dance and then got a sponsorship from a gum company ...

The Amateur Traveler talks to Douglas Duckett about his travels to Israel and his popular travel guide to Israel. Douglas has fallen in love not just with the “holy land” but with ...

This story starts with a misunderstanding and perhaps prejudice, but it is the last paragraph that I find inexcusable. 9 Muslim passengers kicked off flight after remark Nine Muslim passengers were kicked ...

This is a picture of a cultural boma in Tanzania taken by one of my traveling companions, Mary Fields. This is a traditional Maasai village which is preserved this way in large ...