A CNT editor on the job

by Tom Loftus

We really didn't want to start a new travel blog.

For one, there are so many sites out there that already do a great job delivering up-to-the-minute travel news, analysis, and easily digestible travel tidbits--our very own Wendy Perrin among them. And then there's the challenge of begging/pleading with staffers to contribute to the blog. It's like herding cats. When not dashing off to the four corners of the earth for one story or another, they're pecking at their stories on ancient typewriters bought at some Parisian flea market or another, pince-nez ever so artfully placed at the tip of their noses.

But apparently we have a handful of staffers who managed to put down the Pernod long enough to discover the "blogosphere" and here we are with a new blog and a passel of hungry bloggers, including:

Mark Schatzker--he of the "80 Days or Bust" fame--who, starting May 1, will be blogging about his quest to become a Renaissance Man.
Barbara S. Peterson--undercover TSA agent extraordinaire--on business travel and the business of travel.
Guy Martin on security.
Brook Wilkinson on green travel.
Word of Mouth contributor Ondine Cohane on whatever's new in the world of travel.

That's just to start. As this thing takes off we'll have weekly posts on international noshables, celebrity travel, breaking news, tech reviews, dispatches from our globe-trotting reporters, and much more. So keep your lunchtime open for a visit to the Daily Traveler.

Oh, and one more thing. The Daily Traveler follows Truth in Travel. We are committed to reporting on travel fairly and impartially. We travel anonymously and pay our own way.