The picture for this month’s wallpaper is from Italy from the town of Bellagio on the shores of Lake Como. Regular width (1600 x 1200) / without calendar Widescreen (1920 × 1200) [...]

This month on the Amateur Traveler facebook fan page I am having a photo contest with the theme “Shadows”. This picture “Eros Bound” is from Ryan Nemura of productionlads.com Ryan says: I [...]

If you are a regular reader of this blog then you know I take a lot of photographs. Most of my photos end up on my blog or are just shot for [...]

This month on the Amateur Traveler facebook fan page I am having a photo contest with the theme “Shadows”. This picture “In the Shadow of the Cross” is from Sherry Ott and [...]

I generally have a rule while eating out in restaurants to not try to eat anything bigger than my head. My weakness though when traveling in Italy or in south eastern France [...]

Visit Maui with the Amateur Traveler: This video shows the Iao Valley and the Hawai’i Nature Center as well as a few of the beaches (Ahihi Bay, Big Beach, Maluaka Beach, Wailea [...]

Source: besttraveldeals.net. There are a number of issues to consider when you are trying to determine what is the best credit card for travel. If you click on the header graphic of [...]

On This Week in Travel this week (#37 – In a word… “boobquake”) we talked about a blog post from Tnooz titled Seven of the best travel viral videos of all time [...]

This month on the Amateur Traveler facebook fan page I am having a photo contest with the theme “Shadows”. This picture “Chilkoot Trail” is from Ellen McDowell Ruggles Ellen says: My dear [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Subscribe on iTunes | Become a Fan on Facebook | Download the iPhone app This Week’s Guest Pauline Frommer (@paulinefrommer) from Frommers.com, WOR710.com and Bing [...]