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Do we need more obsessive looks back to 1991 -- or not?In a blog post this morning, my highly respected colleague Chris Elliott rehetorically asked, "Am I the only journalist who hasn’t penned a Sept. 11 retrospective this morning? Or, at the very least, posted some memorable 9/11 quotes or photos ...

More recognition for this blog -- this time, from an air-travel siteTravel Babel has been getting some awesome recognition lately. AirlineTickets, which sounds like a ticket consolidator site but in fact has some neat travel content, has included this blog in its new list of "Top 35 Travel Blogs." Again, I find ...

Tarantulas are latest denizen of Colorado invertebrate museumI drive the Boulder Turnpike (US 36) a lot, because it's the main route between Boulder and Denver. I visited the Butterfly Pavilion shortly after it opened in 1995. I remember strolling through the large, plant-filled conservatory as butterflies flitted by from one rainforest ...

Amsterdam's exemplary airport offers yet another amenity for travelersNote: Dick van Tol, library project manager, left a commentto this post  inviting readers to visit Schiphol Airport Library's own website. Reading it and seeing the real photographs, rather than the rendering that I used below, makes this initiative even more impressive. Hat's off to Schiphol ...

Graduate-degreed people dis world sites that I still want to seeI live in Boulder, Colorado, which has again been named the "smartest city in America" -- most recently by The DailyBeast and previously by Forbes. I sometimes think that I am virtually only person in town over the age of 25 without ...

Southwest adds EWR Its schedule as Continental and United prepare to mergeWhen I lived in New York and then New Jersey, I used Newark International Airport (EWR) more than any other. Only when flying internationally did I trek to and from John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), which for a long time was ...

Passengers ferried to land, but ship is still stuckThe "Clipper Adventurer," a small eco-tourism expedition ship operated Ontario-based Adventure Canada ran aground on an "unmarked rock" in Arctic waters, according to a CNN report. The ship was "exploring" the Northwest Passage when the incident occurred. It was first reported on Friday, ...

Another nightmare for the Dreamliner, Boeing's latest airlinerThe Boeing Company pushed delivery of its first 787 to the middle of the first quarter 2011. It seems that a Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 test engine blew apart recently while being run on a ground-test stand at the engine plant in Derby, England, according to a ...

At last, the first shovel of earth to turn for future rail link between Denver to its great airportI know this is a travel blog, and I do try to be regional, national and global in my posts, but I'm as provincial as anyone else, and since my travels start in Colorado, ...

Latest recognition is awesome and then some from fellow travel bloggerWhat a thrill to get an E-mail from Chelsea (whose last name I don't know), letting me know that she selected this blog as one of the Top 25 Awesome Travel Blogs on her Cheap Hotels site, that she describes as ...