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A few months back, I blogged about Tribewanted.com’s Fijian island experiment. James Vlahos went along with the “first footers” who kicked off development on the island, and lived to tell the tale in National Geographic Adventure.

Abha Malpani of the Written Road spilled the beans today about a new online travel community that’s just emerged from private beta. Matador Travel is going for one-stop shopping for all your Web 2.0 travel-site needs.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 1/28/07.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 1/21/07

Not content to simply smash records, scale imposing peaks, and cross the earth’s most forbidding terrain, a new breed of adventurer has emerged that’s determined to do it all without any mechanical help.

“Where Have You Been?” is a monthly NYC event for travelers with different slant on the whole business of going elsewhere, and a good story to back it up.

The NY Times has their end-of-year picks, while the LA Times and Washington Post finally get their snow-season specials on the lift.

Starting today, two 20-something buddies going by the names Scotty and Fiddy are setting off on a quest to hitchhike to all 50 state capitals in 50 days or less.

Here, to fill the gap between P.J. O’Rourke’s Holidays in Hell and Jackass, comes the Vice Guide to Travel.