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

Not content to simply smash records, scale imposing peaks, and cross the earth’s most forbidding terrain, a new breed of adventurer has emerged that’s determined to do it all without any mechanical help.

In May 2004, Jono Lewarne and a childhood friend set out from the UK for a 12-month round-the-world trip. Little did he know, then, that it would turn into an odyssey that would run through April 2006.

On a round-the-world jaunt, foodie documentarian Liz Morrison was dismayed by the number of American fast-food franchises that she discovered crapping up foreign locales

Travel headlines for the weekend of 12/24/06