Travel Headline of the Day: ‘Leaking Mushroom Soup Halts Plane’

It’s Not Easy Going Green, Even in Denver

The Long Descent: Woman’s Journey Down Baggage Belt

First Bras, Now Bacon: Breakfast Meat Triggers Alarm

A Tourist With a Shovel and a Hoe

When she arrived in Kenya to volunteer with the Maasai, Daniela Petrova looked down her nose at tourists there to have a good time. But was her own motivation much different?

How Should I Spend My Time in Spain?

Vagabonding traveler Rolf Potts answers your questions about travel

Paul Theroux: Invisible Man on a Ghost Train

Jim Benning asks the author of “Ghost Train to the Eastern Star” about his new book, aging and the challenge of disappearing in the age of the BlackBerry

Eat Ceviche in Lima

Grab a Cusqueña and get comfortable. As Nicholas Gill explains, a trip to a Peruvian cevichería can be an all-day immersion in good conversation and raw seafood.

Unsentimental Journeys: Wrestling With Paul Theroux

Bronwen Dickey considers “Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Great Railway Bazaar”

My Travels, My Feet

After taking one too many headless torso shots of herself, solo traveler Sophia Dembling started snapping photos of her feet around the world, from the Grand Canyon to Red Square

Seven Reasons to Have a Foreign Fling

Sure, having an overseas romance is fun. But Terry Ward points out seven other benefits to cross-border love, mon petit chou.

Full-Body X-Ray Security Scanner Debuts

This is slightly troubling to me.

A female friend of mine was asked to use this thing once and she heard the security guys behind the monitor say “nice butt.” This might sound innocent, but I believe it goes to show that not everyone may be professional enough to operate such equipment.

Nice Butt comment spoken about my wife in a TSA line or anyother would likely as not get me severely injured and or dead and would certainly cause the speaker severe pain in the process. No one is above the law . . . not even the TSA types that, given some I have seen, wonder where “they” come from.

Not only would it ruffle mine and my wifes feathers but, it is prosecutable and very unprofessional.

Airports become more and more complex when it comes to security, but the main problem is that we should think why this security is really necessary: because we are afraid and that is not a normal thing. We shouldn’t be afraid.

Thats a good idea if you ask me. I used to fly a lot but lately I’ve been do it to a minimal because am scared of something bad happening. The more security check the better. But they should make them more efficient