OK… I understand the beware of pickpockets part of the sign.

I was watching the most recent Narnia movie this weekend (Prince Capsian) as the Pevensie children stepped off a train platform in London and appeared to come out of a cave in [...]

Robert Frost wrote “I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. ” If you have wondered where that is, it is apparently in Bar Harbor, Maine.

This week’s guest is National Geographic ombudsman, MSNBC travel writer and consumer advocate Chris Elliott. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] This week’s news: Southwest attendant takes baby after slap from [...]

No, this photo is not from the Amateur Traveler Photo Tour of Egypt (that’s not until November) but from my June trip to New York City. This is one of the reasons [...]

Europe is at the top of the list for travel destinations for many Americans and other English speakers once they get up the courage to travel over seas. But the novice traveler [...]

I spent the whole summer of 2003 exploring India. After the first few weeks of hot and dusty excursions through the plains — checking out temples and riding overnight trains — I [...]

One of the best hikes that I have ever done is hiking up the Virgin River in a slot canyon in Zion National Park. This canyon gets as narrow, in the section [...]

Just outside of Mexico City you can visit the mysterious ruins of Teotihuacan. I say mysterious because even the Aztecs did not know much about the builders of these pyramids and temples [...]

The Amateur Traveler talks to Kara from Miami about her hometown of Miami. Kara tells us Miami is not as it is pictured in TV shows like Miami Vice and Burn Notice [...]