Here, to fill the gap between P.J. O’Rourke’s Holidays in Hell and Jackass, comes the Vice Guide to Travel.

The NYT is doing their damnedest of late to help Kazakhstan overcome their Borat Sagdiyev-induced image problems, before his little movie opens in November.

Thoughtful YouTuber extremeextreme posted a sizable chunk of the Peru episode from season two of No Reservations today.

From the top of YouTube’s featured videos, check out this surreal time-lapse video of last weekend’s balloon race in Reno, NV.

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

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.

The 2006 World Cup is blowing up the blogosphere as commentators, aficionados, and bystanders post on-the-ground reports, photos and video. BootsnAll’s World Cup Blog site quite possibly takes the cake.

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

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.