This month on the Amateur Traveler facebook fan page I am having a photo contest with the theme “Shadows”. This picture “Khumbu region of Nepal” is from Karl Anders Karl says: The ...

This month on the Amateur Traveler facebook fan page I am having a photo contest with the theme “Shadows”. This picture “The Sounds of Silence” is from Skip Hunt (© 2010) Skip ...

One of the biggest concerns I hear from people when they think about traveling is “what if I get sick?” I am not surprised when I hear people asking this as they ...

This week I have been looking with the daily photos not at my best photographs but at some of the disappointing ones. We were on Oahu when I saw a peacock and ...

Psssst… you’re in Kauai. After visiting Kauai one or two times people generally assume that they have seen all the worthwhile sites. Most likely they have hiked the Na Pali coast, ventured ...

The Amateur Traveler talks to Matthew Stone about his home in Northern Virginia. Matthew describes things to do in Northern Virginia either as a side trip from Washington D.C. or a trip ...

This week instead of looking at some of my best pictures I have been looking at the ones that did not turn out. This picture of the Hotel Valencia in San Jose ...

This week I have been looking at photos that did not turn out the way that I intended. Making sure the shot is in focus is still the number one issue that ...

Last July the Travel Blog Exchange or TBEX, which is a collection of travel bloggers and podcasters had its first conference in Chicago and it was a wonderful opportunity to meet and ...

This week I am focusing not on my best photographs but on the disappointing ones. This is an OK picture of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge but it is not the shot ...