Only a month into the new year, people everywhere are staking out the nicely mnemonic date of 07/07/07 (and all those lucky sevens) for their own purposes.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 1/28/07.

Hokkaido has all the cold-climate necessaries like mountains with reliable fresh powder, hot springs, and ice floes from through the Sea of Okhotsk. The only thing that’s missing from this perfect picture? The Northern Lights.

The NY Times ran a fascinating piece this week on the fate of the former site of the giant Buddha statues of Bamiyan, Afghanistan.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 11/26/06.

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.

The travel pages kept it real this weekend, with stories on stunt trips and secret destinations, tips on how to find and avoid political hotspots, and news about how growing numbers of people are changing some beloved destinations.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 11/05/06.

Non-profit World Heritage Tours has undertaken a massive project – documenting all sites listed with the UNESCO World Heritage program in 360º-you-are-there “panographies�?.

UNESCO is on a preservation spree this week, naming eight sites to its World Heritage list yesterday and an additional 10 today.