If I sound out of breath, it’s because I just got back from retrieving the needle for my Idiotometer, which sprung off the device and flew out the window after I scanned this video. Using the limited information I found, let me paint the picture: A bro-dude and his bro-buddies…

I love this. Not only because it’s an incredible story, but this is some first-rate storytelling by Doug DeMuro. The gist is Ed Bolian –  who is, unsurprisingly, a Lamborghini salesman – not only broke the cross-US driving speed record, he tore it off the wall, jumped up and down…

It’s difficult to not to geek out over the Jet Capsule mini-yacht. It’s just so quintessentially European. Modest and affordable, while being comfortable and attractive. I mean look at it! It looks like a frickin’ Star Trek shuttle craft! Made in Italy, the Jet Capsule measures 23 feet long, 13…

[UPDATE: Sadly, it seems this video was so hilariously embarrassing, even for the Kristi “Wrong Way” Noem, that it has been thoroughly scrubbed from the internet. I can’t find it anywhere. Little help?] Yes, this video is more than a year old, but with US elections coming up next week,…

Oh God. Not this. Not my wine. Anything but that. Hot on the heels of the news that a possible chocolate scarcity could affect the planet as early as 2017, the suicidal news that the world is facing a potential wine shortage is forcing certain travel writers to change their…

One time, I stopped myself one click away from purchasing a suspiciously cheap plane ticket from Athens, Greece to Minneapolis when I realized that the ticket was actually from Athens, Georgia to Minneapolis. Whew! Another time, an obnoxious agent at the Nice, France train station, who was extremely unhappy about…

Now what I want to know is – because we’re obviously dealing with some kind of genius here – how did they get this truck in this spot without (apparently) causing any damage? Frankly, I’m still a bit stunned by this scene, found in a parking ramp in downtown Winnipeg,…

First of all, I already invented time travel back in 1991. You buy a jug of Gordon’s Vodka, a gallon of orange juice, mix it, “prime” yourself with this time travel potion (one cup every 20 minutes is optimal – no ice), strap yourself into something and in the blink…

Well, this is simply diabolical. A fake Canadian-based company calling themselves AusCan Tours baited an older Australian couple with a fake online contest and a first prize of an all-expenses-paid week in Canada, including new luggage (foreshadowing!), all the while priming them to smuggle 3.5kg (8 pounds) of crystal meth,…

OK, it’s a bit of a stretch to say the V-Tex “reverse microwave” beverage rapid cooling system is travel-related – for now. But mark my words, in five years one of these doohickeys is going to be in every five-star hotel room and hostel common room. The idea was to…