There’s a free-roving “World Bests” meme on the loose this week. Thus far it’s attached itself to subway systems, waterfront cities, and cab rides in international destinations.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 12/24/06

Whatever your story of Thanksgiving travel woe this holiday weekend, the LA Times wants to remind you that it could always have been worse.

The proverbial “busiest travel weekend of the year” is now officially in progress, as those without the leisure to travel in advance of Thanksgiving are leaving work and scrambling, to get wherever it is that they’re expected for dinner tomorrow.

37.2 million people traveled over the Thanksgiving weekend last year, and experts predict more next week. If you plan to be among them, look at this week’s NY Times “Practical Traveler,” which has a survival guide on how to survive the worst of it.

As an aspiring journalist, Kelly Loudenberg interned at CNN, ABC, NPR, and HBO, before deciding that corporate media was too restrictive for the kind of stories that she wanted to tell.

We got some love from the Denver Post this weekend, with an item in their Travel Extras column about the site.

When last we checked in, Scotty and Fiddy, the lads behind a hitchhiking project called Hitch 50, had just left New York on their cross-country mission to hit all 50 state capitals in 50 Days.

Google is currently testing yet another feature to add to the panoply of options for Google Maps.

It was another round of the unlikely-destination Olympics this weekend with each paper trying harder than the last: Libya! Vanuatu! Angola!