Travel video: Jean Lafitte National Park, Louisiana
April 5, 2010 by Craig Guillot
Filed under From the Desk
The Barataria Preserve of the Jean Lafitte National Park just outside of New Orleans, La., features more than 20,000 acres of bayous, swamps and marshes with alligators, nutrias and more than 300 species of birds. There’s no better way to get up and close with the local wildlife than by talking a walk down the [...]
5 interesting travel blog posts
March 15, 2010 by Craig Guillot
Filed under From the Desk, Uncategorized
Here are 5 interesting travel blog posts we found this week:
Everything you need to know about agritourism
Bootsnall.com
At its most basic level, agritourism is a style of travel that takes place on a farm or ranch and usually offers the opportunity to help with on-site farming or ranching tasks during the visit. It entails [...]
5 interesting travel blog posts
March 2, 2010 by Craig Guillot
Filed under From the Desk
Here are 5 interesting travel blog posts we found this week:
Why you should ignore everything you’ve heard and go to Colombia
Bootsnall.com
…check your preconceived notions at the door and forget everything you’ve heard about Colombia, because I’m here to break down the three biggest barriers that might prevent you from visiting this wonderful, [...]
5 interesting travel blog posts
January 24, 2010 by Craig Guillot
Filed under From the Desk
From tourist traps and dumb moments in travel to avoiding things that will get you kicked off your next flight, here are 5 interesting travel blog posts we found this week:
9 of the world’s tourist traps and how to avoid them. Matadortrips.com
There are (usually) good reasons why certain attractions are on every tourist’s itinerary. [...]
Photo slideshow from Malaysia
January 22, 2010 by Craig Guillot
Filed under From the Desk
Here’s a cool slideshow with photos from Malaysia:
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Should you vacation in Haiti right now?
January 21, 2010 by Craig Guillot
Filed under From the Desk
While Port-au-Prince has never been a popular spot with travelers, some parts of Haiti such as the peninsula of Labadee have been a popular call for cruise ships and travelers. With such widespread devastation in Haiti, the fact that people are still dying daily in the country and the prospect of more than 200,000 deaths, [...]
Explore Los Angeles’ ganglands
January 19, 2010 by Craig Guillot
Filed under From the Desk
When travelers visit Los Angeles, they now have the opportunity to take guided tours through some of the roughest neighborhoods in South L.A. Founded by former gang member Alfred Lomas, LA Gang Tours takes travelers through the history and origin of high profile gangs in the area. Some of the stops include graffiti-covered patches of [...]
5 interesting travel blog posts
January 15, 2010 by Craig Guillot
Filed under From the Desk
Here are a 5 interesting travel blog posts we found this week:
Tales from the Road – Haiti. Travelersnotebook.com.
As the world mobilizes in Haiti’s hour of need, this collection of travel stories provides insight into life before the quake.
How to relive your trips through your tastebuds. Vagabondish.com.
Anyone can collect food ideas from around the world on their [...]
6 interesting travel blog posts
December 31, 2009 by Craig Guillot
Filed under From the Desk
From elephants playing football to eating fried tarantulas and skateboarding in Afghanistan, here are 6 interesting travel blog posts we found on the web this week:
Afghanistan’s first skate park brightens kids’ futures. Matadorsports.com
Skateistan, Afghanistan’s first co-educational skateboarding school, has created a way for the youth of Afghanistan to connect through new opportunities in personal empowerment [...]
7 crazy ass museums
December 28, 2009 by Craig Guillot
Filed under From the Desk
After you’ve been to the Smithsonian, the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre, you might be looking for something more than your average run of the mill museum. There are a lot of dumb museums out there (such as the Barf Bag Museum and the Spam Museum) but then there are the [...]
