A child sifts through e-waste in New Delhi / © Wikipedia The green environmental movement is encouraging Americans to increasingly... Read More
After years of hedging the issue under former Prime Minister John Howard, Australia under its newly elected Primed Minister and... Read More
© jkottke Only in America – and the mid west in particular – would some genius in corporate product development... Read More
A few years ago, I couldn’t have pointed to Madison on a map (for those of you still looking, it’s... Read More
New passport cards that American travelers can use to make frequent cross border transfers are expected to be issued in... Read More
Haggis, nips, and tatties © wili_hybrid Scotland plans to pressure the US to lift its current ban on haggis —... Read More
Matt B. Simon explores the Western United States by rail in part one of a six-part miniseries on traveling the U.S. via Amtrak. Read More
© woodleywonderworks A little something different …... Read More
The Southwest We disembarked Amtrak shortly after midnight into the still-smoldering Tucson air, tired, misanthropic, and in my case, many... Read More
The South I arrived in Austin feeling like an angry bear with a NyQuil hangover and a 20-pound Cheeto on... Read More
With this report out today, citing the top 15 bed bug ridden cities in the United States, we’re reminded of... Read More
An interesting infographic with surprisingly (to me) high numbers.... Read More
Gadling has a rather interesting tongue-in-cheek US map of stereotypes. I suppose there are worse things than “rich” that one... Read More
In 1979 I rode my cheap bicycle from San Francisco to New York, with detours up to Oregon and down... Read More
The U.S. State Department has broadened its travel warning for Mexico, advising citizens to avoid certain areas and steer clear... Read More
5 photographers, a writer, 2 weeks, a bus. Enough said.... Read More
[A]ccording to the FBI, “An estimated 15,241 persons were murdered nationwide in 2009”³ in the United States of America. Officially,... Read More
The South is the most rewarding place in the world for food lovers to road trip: You can measure the... Read More
Congratulations, people of Portland! (Or, if you’re of a super-strict moral fiber, then … shame on you, people of Portland!)... Read More
The field of dreams, Dyersville, Iowa  ©fieldofdreamsmoviesite.com While today marks the first U.S. presidential caucus in Davenport, Iowa, the state... Read More