Apr 13th, 2012 at 3:00PM:
The United States Travel Association (U.S. Travel) has rolled out a new plan to spread the word on the importance of tourism in America: A big blue bus that is now making its way across the country on a 20,000-mile tour. The bus is a roving advertisement for U.S. Travel, an organization that is on a mission to highlight the economic benefits of travel. The association makes some pretty good ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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'Vote Travel' Bus Coming To A City Near You
Apr 13th, 2012 at 3:00PM:
The United States Travel Association (U.S. Travel) has rolled out a new plan to spread the word on the importance of tourism in America: A big blue bus that is now making its way across the country on a 20,000-mile tour. The bus is a roving advertisement for U.S. Travel, an organization that is on a mission to highlight the economic benefits of travel. The association makes some pretty good ...10 reasons to travel to Ljubljana
Dec 13th, 2011 at 9:00AM:
When I found cheap airfare from Istanbul to Ljubljana, I didn't find many other travelers who'd been there or even say for sure which country it's in. The tiny of country of Slovenia is slightly smaller than New Jersey and its capital city isn't known for much other than being difficult to spell and pronounce (say "lyoob-lyAH-nah"). After spending a few days there last month, I quickly fell ...Video of the Day: Bus stops, passengers tumble
Nov 7th, 2011 at 6:30PM:
Whether part of your commute or part of your travels, buses are often a convenient (and affordable) way to get from Point A to Point B. The downside of buses (other than frequent stops) is the lack of space. The seats are cramped, there's little room for your belongings and the movement of the bus jostles things around. For all of those reasons, many people covet the middle seat in the back ...
MegaBus introduces sleeper bus overnight Glasgow-London
Oct 26th, 2011 at 12:00PM: Ever wanted to travel like a rock star? Now in the UK, you can travel on a sleeper bus between Scotland and England and pretend you're on tour. This week, while budget transportation company MegaBus announced new routes in the southern United States, with free tickets to celebrate), they also introduced a new sleeper bus service between Glasgow and London.
The 400-mile journey is a bit slower ...Welcome to Dekotora, Japan's decorative truck craze
May 19th, 2011 at 11:00AM: Any American who's watched TV in the last 10 years knows about the custom wheels featured on shows like Pimp My Ride or American Chopper. But despite all the crazy cars that have been built with plasma TV's inside and motorcycles tricked out to look like robots, it seems they've got nothing on a very unique decorative truck-building craze in Japan called Dekotora.
Dekotora, a Japanese ...Video of the Day: Big Wheel vs. Bus
Apr 18th, 2011 at 6:30PM:
We're all for using public transportation whether you're at home or exploring a new city. It keeps excess cars off the roads, allows you to see a real cross-section of the population and is cheaper than taking taxis everywhere. That said, buses can be slow. Especially in major cities like New York. How slow? Well, comedian Mark Malkoff decided to find out. He raced a New York City bus across ...
Getting to Harar: riding the bus through eastern Ethiopia
Mar 7th, 2011 at 9:00AM:
It's good to be back in Ethiopia again.
I've noticed some changes since my last trip to Ethiopia. More high-rises are going up in the capital Addis Ababa and ATMs have finally appeared. The Internet is faster too, although it isn't the full broadband promised by the government.
Addis is fun, but my real destination is Harar, a medieval walled city in eastern Ethiopia. The whole city is a ...Five visitation travel tips for divorced dads
Feb 3rd, 2011 at 8:00AM: Divorced plus distance equals difficulty – when you have kids. You don't get to spend as much time with them as you'd like, and the process of going to see them involves lots of time on a bus, train or plane (or even in a car). The trip home leaves you with lots of time to think. There's nothing easy about this, but you can take some of the sting out. Keep the right frame of mind, and be ...Can this chicken bus make it across a waterfall?
Jan 23rd, 2011 at 1:00PM: One of the most common ways to economically transit in Central America is via chicken bus, a type of rebuilt school bus chock full of budget travelers, locals, livestock and anything else that can fit. And with rugged terrain and unpredictable weather, passage can often be a time consuming and difficult affair.
WyUtahMed over on Youtube captured one of these very instances in Nicaragua. With ...
Another fatal Disney bus accident
Dec 27th, 2010 at 11:30AM:
There's word this morning that a tourist has been killed at Walt Disney World. The 69-year-old Massachusetts man was in the parking lot at the Port Orleans Resort when he stepped into the path of a Disney bus.
It appears that the bus driver was not at fault and will not be charged. There were passengers on the bus at the time, and none of them were injured. This marks at least the ...Weekending: Varna, Bulgaria
Dec 8th, 2010 at 11:30AM:
Back in September, the end of the Muslim month of Ramadan offered locals and expats like me an excuse to go on holiday while our American friends were celebrating the end of summer and Labor Day. With more time to explore than a typical Weekending trip, I checked out Turkey's most western neighbor, Bulgaria, and fell in love with modern and medieval captials Sofia and Veliko Tarnovo.
The ...Istanbul transit fares increased
Nov 3rd, 2010 at 3:30PM: Travelers visiting Istanbul this winter will pay extra to get around on public transportation. The transit authority has just put a fare hike in effect on the trams, metro, bus, and ferry lines, the first in a year and a half.
A single-leg token (jeton) will now cost 1.75 TL (about ($1.25), up from 1.50, but Akbil (smart ticket) carriers will pay 1.65 TL and .85 TL for transfers. Ferries ...Weekending: Veliko Tarnovo
Oct 21st, 2010 at 2:30PM:
The best part of expat life for me are the travel opportunities, especially when living in Turkey, conveniently located where Europe meets Asia. Expat travel takes on a new twist as you seek out the new and unfamiliar as in any new destination, the newly familiar of your adopted home city, and the old and familiar of your original home city. You luxuriate in the things your expat home lacks, ...The cheapest way from London to Paris: Bus service for £15
Aug 11th, 2010 at 3:00PM: Backpackers rejoice. Eurolines, a part of UK bus carrier National Express has reduced the fare of their bus service from London to Paris, a hotly competitive route currently served by dozens of air and rail carriers. To date, Eurostar and budget air carriers have fought hard over the route, with fares on either sinking as low as $100 round trip.
Currently, one of the most common inexpensive ...Five ways to make bus travel bearable
Aug 2nd, 2010 at 8:00AM: I've been spending a lot of time on buses lately – and not the kind that trace an east-west route across Manhattan. For the trips I've been taking, it's been the best way to go, but rolling by bus is still far from exciting. From having to smoke outside with the homeless people in front of Port Authority to being stuck next to or in front of a loud cell phone talker, it's hard to find a less ...Travel by bus - International travel tip
Jun 21st, 2010 at 11:03AM: Americans are used to either flying to a destination or driving on the interstate. However, don't pass up the chance to take the bus when traveling abroad.
Many bus companies offer more luxury accommodations than the national airline. Moreover, the cost is usually comparatively low -- even for long distance travel. Additionally, bus travel gives you the chance to see the local scenery and meet ...Somaliland adventure: getting to nowhere
May 12th, 2010 at 11:00AM: One of the tempting things about travel in Ethiopia is the proximity to other nations offering a variety of different experiences. I decided that my two-month trip would include a side trip to Somaliland.
The first reaction most people have when I say I've been to Somaliland is, "You went to Somalia? Are you crazy?"
The answer is no on both counts. Somaliland is the other Somalia, the place ...Greyhound driver tips off cops to half million in coke
Mar 25th, 2010 at 11:00AM: When's the last time a Greyhound passenger had half a million dollars' worth of anything? Usually it's a tattered duffle bag and maybe an iPod. Well, police in Sherman, Texas, acting on a tip from a Greyhound driver, discovered $500,000 in cocaine in a passenger's unmarked suitcase. The police officer was waiting at the bus stop, thanks to the info. After sniffing around, so to speak, he found 12 ...He's Baaaaack!
Mar 19th, 2010 at 10:30AM: Clinging to the time-honored American tradition of grand re-entrances (and like a malevolent phantom lunging at you through your computer screen), I have returned. Didja miss me, huh?
Apologies for the disappearance but over the last few months I have been out touring my conspicuous act and feeding my inner hobo. Maybe you heard about that psychotic man who rode the Bus 2 Antarctica? Yeah ...Safe travels to Antarctica, Andrew Evans!
Jan 9th, 2010 at 10:30AM: Have you checked in with our colleague, friend and hero Andrew Evans lately? He's on the Bus(es) to Antarctica right now, a long, slow journey from his home in Washington DC all of the way to the southern tip of the planet Earth. By bus. Or rather, a series of slow, crawling behemoths from which he'll be blogging, tweeting and reflecting over the course of the next several weeks. Fox 5 in DC ...
