Travel headlines for the weekend of 9/3/06.

Since our car-obsessed culture is currently being served a double wake-up call in the form of climate crisis and $3-dollar-per-gallon gas, there couldn’t be a more perfect moment for a critical look at our largest shared piece of infrastructure.

Budget Travel is attuned to the plight of American travelers looking for a low-cost local vacation in the age of $3.00/ gallon at the pump.

As a reminder that the US and Canada’s national parks aren’t just for car-camping families, National Geographic Adventure has just posted a web-exclusive “Insider’s Guide to the Great Parks� with info on 30 parks throughout North America.

The NYT asks “Is Qatar the Next Dubai?�- they’ve got man-made resort islands too! It seems like mere weeks ago, Dubai was the next Dubai. And the cannibalizing cycle of the “Next Big Thing� spirals on…

In this edition: the SF Chronicle stumbles upon the Holy Grail (just the cup this time) in Valencia, while the Washington Post visits Brangelina’s compound in Namibia, according to Us Weekly, the site of the second coming.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 4/8/06.

It’s finally spring. And if you live in DC, spring means hordes of people gawping at the cherry blossoms.

If, like the writers of New York magazine’s recent “why-bother-with-anywhere-else?�? travel issue, you believe that cities really don’t get any better than NYC, Gotham’s other hometown rag has a video archive of city tours designed just for you.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 4/1/06