Sustainable food and living vlog Freshtopia has teamed up with Treehugger TV for a clip about traveling the country by rail.

Starting today, The Map is available as a podcast that you can access through iTunes. Subscribe to the show and have the newest clips loaded directly onto your iPod, for use on-the-go.

The RAD Blog’s Jon Rawlinson is back with new videos after an absence of a month or more. Take a gander at his trip to Kotor, Montenegro.

For your pre-weekend entertainment: ostrich riding and racing in Oudtshoorn, South Africa, ostrich capital of the world.

From Current TV, nicely meditative pod about traveling alone on the wrong side of a language barrier.

Gadling pointed me today to a very slick new vlog called Scourist, that’s filmed and produced by travel blogger Jon Rawlinson of the RAD blog.

I recently discovered Blip.tv which has some of the best-shot vlogs I’ve seen (and a nice, simple interface, to boot). Case in point: girlwithamoviecamera’s vlog.

Judging by this video shot from a taxi zipping through Kathmandu, New York cabbies and Romans don’t have any monopoly on crazy driving.

From 2002-2003 Chicagoan Mike Pugh trotted the globe and posted writing, photos and video of travels on the very nicely designed blog Vagabonding.com (no relation to Rolf Pott’s book, or site).

This month is Bike Month all across America. To set your gears turning about transportation alternatives, here’s a preview of a documentary charting one man’s 7-month, 10,000-mile bike ride around the perimeter of the lower 48.