We all know that watching race cars and swilling liquor go together like peanut butter and bananas, but authorities are asking Australian race goers to take it easy on the booze – sort of, by restricting fans to one “slab” of beer a day during the three day event. Highlights from the BBC Asia Pacific […]

The Oldest Living Things in the World Rachel Sussman takes photographs of the oldest living things in the world. Her blog is essentially a travel journal, and worth a read. Apparently, there is a bar in this tree:

Walt Disney World’s got nothing on China when it comes to combining experiments in social engineering with kitschy tourist attractions; “A community of dwarves has set up its own village to escape discrimination from normal sized people. Everyone in the mountain commune in Kunming, southern China, must be under 4ft 3ins tall – and they […]

“It’s very much an adventure,” he said. “That’s really what I was looking for and it’s certainly lived up to that. But I do enjoy the freedom of just pleasing myself day after day.”You can stay home and do that…

Patrick Smith is a commercial airline pilot that contributes to the Jet Lagged blog at the NY Times. In his post, he hits on a lot of sore points for airline travelers. The liquid-ban has been a focal point for a lot of criticism, and Smith brings up some good points. The NY Times: Airport […]

Check out this cool series of the 10 Strangest (real) things in space. I’m personally amazed at how quickly God threw all this crap together, but I guess that’s why I’m not God, that and I don’t have a bushy white beard.

Arthur Frommer wrote a good Q&A peice for yesterdays Freakonomics blog. Check it out.Q.What travel tips do you have that might help decrease costs, etc., so that we could accomplish this goal? A: Realize first that the less you spend, the more you’ll enjoy. Embark on a conscious effort to use low-cost facilities — rooms […]