Tony Wheeler, co-founder of the Lonely Planet guidebook empire, wrote a post titled Airports - love them/hate them . Very often, the airport is your first impression of a country. You start setting expectations. Is dealing with officials painless or painful? You'll get more of the same out of the airport. Does the place feel...

The coolest things I see while traveling are the deserted, ruinous old buildings and the weird desert art projects or memorabilia of things that used to be there, like Tinkertown or Pioneertown or the Desert Christ Park . One of the coolest among the cool is the currently fully functioning but oddly deserted Mojave airport...

This seems like one of the possibly best services ever, if you're overwhelmed and jetlagged and don't feel like bussing it right away! Dianne says: "It only takes a little bit of research to see that the biggest hurdle for travellers arriving in India is getting out of the airport! I personally meet travellers no...

If you want to use a travelator or moving walkway while going around the airport, make sure you're doing so to conserve energy rather than improve your walking speed. A recent study from Princeton University showed that people move slower on a travelator, but it doesn't save you any time. This may save energy, but...