CN Traveler’s got a new blog over at Concierge.com. They’ve assigned Canadian food and travel writer Mark Schatzker to go around the world in 80 days

This weekend, the tiny town of Hokitika, New Zealand, population 4,500, will be flooded by 17,000 foodies, who are flying, driving and bussing in from all over sample the oddest delicacies they can get their mitts on.

Cue the bad “Mile-High Club” jokes. Demonstrating why the commercial passenger jet has never before doubled as a flying concert venue, Jamiroquai played a a set of their white-man funk for a plane full of contest winners on Monday.

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

Our friends at Gothamist linked to Kelly Loudenberg’s new video on last weekend’s Santacon in NYC.

UK-based writer Rachael Glazier decided to put her green beliefs into some extreme practice this month. Looking for an alternative to carbon-belching jumbo jets for a long-haul trip, she opted to travel from London to Hong Kong, by train.

Flickr user michael_hughes had a very clever idea for a photoset: images of tchotchkes and photos of famous international landmarks carefully lined up in place of the originals. It’s so meta.

Ever wondered what’s behind the curtain at the end of the baggage claim conveyor belt? Or, what would happen if you just hopped on?

Travel headlines for the weekend of 10/22/06.

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.