In May 2004, Jono Lewarne and a childhood friend set out from the UK for a 12-month round-the-world trip. Little did he know, then, that it would turn into an odyssey that would run through April 2006.

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.

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.

This clip has been circulating around the Web for awhile, but it cropped up recently while I was searching YouTube’s travel pickings, and I was reminded how great it is.

Driving from London to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia sounds like a risky, but fantastic adventure. But making that same drive in a tiny econobox with a one-liter engine? A fool’s errand. Yet in this year’s Mongol Rally, some 200 foolhardy teams will attempt t