HowCast made a video that I liked on how to vacation with Moody Teens. Neither of my kids were really moody in their teens but we did do all of the things that they talked about in this video including bringing a friend along (he parents paid he plane ticket) to Europe. How To Vacation [...]

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 which was a fine list of travel related (mostly) videos, but it was not my list. Here is my list of 7+ great [...]

This video which is an homage to the recent Google Superbowl Ad documents when your love for what you are doing turns to frustration. Have you thought about getting away?

I have had a YouTube.com account for years. I use it for small videos for my blog but mostly for video episodes of the Amateur Traveler podcast. One day about 3 weeks ago I posted a new video for a contest (this video for NomadicMatt’s Costa Rica contest). Just a little while later someone pointed [...]

Former Amateur Traveler guest and well-known travel blogger Nomadic Matt is having a contest offering a chance to Win a Free 2 Week Trip to Costa Rica. To enter you need to create a video (like my entry above) or a blog post that explains why you should win. Although… it is certainly OK if [...]

Ellen from the YMCA of Greater New York sent me this great video of kids from the New York area who took a volunteer vacation to Thailand to build a YMCA there. This program is part of the YMCA’s Global Teens program which aims to produce “peace, tolerance and understanding” through international travel and cultural [...]

Before John Higham and his wife even had kids they decided that one day they would take a year off and travel the globe with their children. That exactly what they did when their kids reached 11 and 8 years of age. John then wrote about his trip in a new book called “360 Degrees [...]

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 $3400 Taylor guitar. When he could not get satisfaction from the company he wrote this song which has now gone viral on the [...]

This recent commercial by Norwegian Airlines shows the downsides to cheap airfare when a man tries to surprise his wife by stripping naked and presenting himself with only a rose. Sadly for him his in-laws had flown in on cheap fares from Norwegian Airlines.

A video interview with journalist Karen Schaler who has written a book, Travel Therapy, on the different was we can use travel to cure what ails us from dealing with stress to recovering from breakups or divorce. Karen also has a website focusing on travel therapy trips.