Tonight, people will say goodbye to 2009. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass.A tough year in many respects, 2009 was a year to stay relatively close to home. Many of us, despite the wanderlust in our hearts, did just that.The stay-cation became an accepted norm. In New York, the stay-cation is [...]

The rewards of travel are greater than simply seeing a new place.

For the duration of a vacation, your possessions are reduced to the contents of your suitcase.You don’t need all that crap in your basement, attic or storage space. You don’t need shoes in every color and maybe, just maybe, you will feel [...]

I am a fan of pizza: New York slices, cheesy Wisconsin thin crust, Chicago deep dish, you name it.Would I go to the ends of the earth for it? My friend Bryan Myers, world traveler and news producer, did.He and his crew sampled Bolivian spicy llama pizza high in the Bolivian Andes. I’ll pass [...]

I recently got this list of Do’s and Don’ts for travel in Italy from my friend Bryan Myers who works for a news program broadcast on public television. Many of the people who work on his program are foreign nationals, and each were recently asked to prepare such a list for their home countries. [...]