It has been a bad week for planes and pilots as this first story shows: Plane takes off without pilot at vintage airshow A runaway aircraft took off on its own when [...]

Visit Costa Rica with the Amateur Traveler: This video shows an eco tour traveling by bus, train and boat to the rain forrest north of Puerto Limon on the Caribbean coast. It [...]

I finally put up my trip journal for my trip to Panama. This is the trip that I talked about on: Aruba: Scuba Diving Episode 113 – Theme Cruise to Panama (Shakespeare [...]

Aruba: Scuba DivingCarnival Cruise Lines -4 Night Western Caribbean from $159 on Orbitz! This journal covers a cruise to Panama on Holland America through Insight / Geek Cruises. The cruise was a [...]

The Amateur Traveler talks to Harry Pariser the author of “Explore Costa Rica” about the Central American country of Costa Rica. Pariser has been writng about Costa Rica for 15 years. We [...]

Chris (The Amateur Traveler himself) talks about his recent themed cruise (Shakespeare at Sea / MacMania) on the Holland America ship the ms Vollendam to the Panama canal with stops at Half [...]