“Hey, what does this button do?” Major Oops Could Cost Airline Big Money An embarrassing incident at an American Airlines maintenance base in Fort Worth left a plane badly damaged, after the [...]

I was in Chicago last weekend for the Travel Blog Exchange Conference where I met with other travel bloggers. Just out the window of the Chicago Cultural Center where the conference was [...]

The Canary Islands are a hugely popular tourist destination amongst European travellers. Attracting around nine million visitors every year. But these seven little specks of Spain are not all birds of a [...]

Thanks so much for the people who came to the first Amateur Traveler meetup which was held in Chicago on Friday night. I confirmed what I always expected which is the Amateur [...]

When I saw an article recently of President Obama budysurfing on a trip to his boyhood home of Hawaii it occured to me that many of my landlocked friends may not know [...]

This is a transcript of an episode of the Amateur Traveler focusing on traveling to Oahu. Travel to Oahu, Hawaii – Episode 184 Show Notes More blogs posts about Hawaii More podcasts [...]

Tripbase Blog Awards 2009 Tripbase.com held a contest recently (as a way of getting their name out on the internet to be sure) and in the contest the Amateur Traveler was awarded [...]

What do you do when you are a musician and you watch in horror as baggage handlers throw guitars onto the plane? Musician Dave Carroll had this experience when United destroyed his [...]

The Amateur Traveler talks again to Douglas Duckett the author of a popular free travel guide to Israel. This time we talked to Douglass about traveling to the holy city, Jerusalem. We [...]

This was the view from my window one day on a business trip to China. I stayed in the Tomorrow Square Marriott which is directly across the street from the Shanghai museum [...]