I predict there will be an increase in volunteering this year as Disney has announced a program where they will trade you a day of volunteering for a day at a Disney theme park.
It works like this:

Search for and commit to a volunteer activity. Start now!
Complete your volunteer service.
Print the voucher we’ll email to you [...]

Viewing Paris from the top of the Eiffel Tower
Sipping Champagne in Epernay
Shopping in Cannes

None of these activities are what Heather Hansen was looking for when she planned her recent trip to France. She and a friend chose a volunteer vacation. Instead of the usual tourist activities, they learned medieval stone laying methods while they helped [...]

Today I woke before the alarm went off with thoughts of work and what I had to accomplish today.
A couple of week’s ago I woke to what I thought was the sound of a cement mixer. It turns out it was simply the snoring of my trip mates. I might be forgiven the mistake about [...]

The “Best Job in the World” was awarded to an englishman this week, but a winery in Napa is offering a “A Really Good Job”:
A Really Good Job
Murphy-Goode Winery… is
offering you a “Really Goode Job” — a six-month job paying $10,000 a month plus accommodations!
We want to hire a social media whiz (your title [...]

If travel makes you nervous already then you probably should not read the following story.
TSA tests scanners to measure anxiety
Newspaper accounts are using words like �Orwellian� and �the stuff of science-fiction nightmare� to describe a new kind of technology being tested by the Homeland Security Department and Transportation Security Administration. The technology would use an [...]