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…