I would leave the country…once every year for the next four years. I figured everyone won: I got to see new and adventurous places. And no one else really mattered.

The United Nations has 192 Member States, how many can you name in 10 minutes?

Tapping into the JetBlue hoopla, MSNBC travel columnist Christopher Eliiot rsponded today to one Vinit Desai who had sit through 30 hours of delays after his scheduled American Airlines SF-to-Chicago flight was canceled because of weather.

The Vice magazine boys just uploaded a few clips from their gonzo travel documentary to Travelistic.

Kelly Loudenberg’s latest effort, a foray into culture jamming, is getting some pickup from the blogosphere.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 2/4/07.

Reported on CNN: Leaders in the US travel industry met in Washington yesterday to discuss the decline in overseas travel to the US since 9/11, and delivered the following message to the Federal Government: “stop treating tourists like terrorists.”

As of today, US citizens arriving by air from outside the 50 States, no matter what their point of origin, must have a passport to re-enter the country. (Unless you’re coming from Puerto Rico or the USVI, that is. Loophole!)

Travel headlines for the weekend of 1/21/07

A week from today, all Americans returning to the US from abroad, even if that means the Caribbean, Mexico, or Canada, will have to fork over a passport in order to be readmitted to their home state.