World Travel Guide

Online Traveling Journal with Free Advice and Guides on Travel, Hotels, Bed and Breakfast, Lodging and more. Articles and tips on travel and travel accommodations.In my tourism training hat, people often ask me about the utility of location-based services like Gowalla and Foursquare.
Here’s an example of why they’re so handy….
I was speaking in Houston at the TFEA (Texas Festivals and Events Association) annual conference,

Providing up to date information on Travel guides and guidebooks, Travel advice, tips and destination information to give you the best possible ideas.The Monument Cafe is located right off of the very attractive courthouse square town center in Georgetown, Texas (just north of Austin.)
It’s a restaurant that looks all curvy and Art Deco but was really purpose-built and is quite modern in sensibility, including free WiFi and

An travel guide providing unbiased hotel reviews, destination guides, cruise reviews, flight information and much more.You know how it is in restaurants with little kids; you need to get seated quickly, get the food quickly and one parent ends up doing the “toddler-chase” while the other one bolts down the contents of his or her plate.
A good noise level to drown out the occasional squawking

Providing up to date information on Travel guides and guidebooks, Travel advice, tips and destination information to give you the best possible ideas.As suspected, not a lot of burning family travel news to come out of my time at the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) tech conference last week, but here are two items of possible interest to parents….
***  The research work of Dr. danah boyd (yes, she spells it lowercase)

Providing up to date information on Travel guides and guidebooks, Travel advice, tips and destination information to give you the best possible ideas. I know, it’s food overload this time of year, but how can you miss when it’s slab-sized brownies?
These are from the Rather Sweet Bakery in German-tinged Fredericksburg, Texas.
It’s tucked behind the historic building where Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz was born,

Research destination guides, get inspirational world travel guide recommendations, see photos, videos, trip plans, and more here.Those who drive long stretches of most US Interstate highways know that, while you’ll get there faster and there might be some good places to pull off, it will be a mostly boring trip. Fast, efficient, but boring. If you decide to jump off on a backroad (see William Least Heat-Moon’s

Research destination guides, get inspirational world travel guide recommendations, see photos, videos, trip plans, and more here.Part of the annual Round Rock, Texas Frontier Days July 4 celebration is a fun costumed reenactment of the 1878 Sam Bass Shootout. The infamous bank robber Sam Bass was fatally shot by lawmen in Round Rock, and his name is plastered on things all over town including my son’s