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This year 32,633 Condé Nast Traveler readers voted on their favorite hotels, resorts, islands, cities, and modes of transportation, with the end result being perhaps the most varied and highly ranked group of properties and locations ever. Not bad! Thank you, readers, for your participation. Check out our interactive Google Map of the Top 100 properties.

Further reading:
* Our award winners' dream trips
* Celebrity guests at this year's awards ceremony
* The complete list of this year's winners

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The Layover Nation Contest, a challenge to readers to identify some of the coolest things to do in and near major airports between flights, had entrants flooding the Perrin Post, our sister blog, with quick excursions.  The contest is over, but not without creating fodder for our reporter Michael Kinsley, who set off to report on the chosen excursions--and many more--just last week.

Check the Daily Traveler for Kinsley's mini-blog. Meanwhile, we are happy to feature some of those layover ideas here in Map It Out . This week we are tackling Asia.

Further reading:
* Layover Nation Intro: Michael Kinsley Goes Around the World
* Layover Nation: LAX and One Deserted Beach
* Layover Nation: New Zealand by Segway
* Layover Nation: I'll Stay in Singapore's Changi International Airport

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The Layover Nation Contest, a challenge to readers to identify some of the coolest things to do in and near major airports between flights, had entrants flooding the Perrin Post, our sister blog, with quick excursions.  The contest is over, but not without creating fodder for our reporter Michael Kinsley, who will set off to report on the chosen excursions--and many more--for the magazine next month.

Check the Daily Traveler late this month for Kinsley's mini-blog. Meanwhile, we are happy to feature some of those layover ideas here on the Daily Traveler. This week we are tackling Latin America and the Caribbean.   

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by Mollie Chen

Within my favorite neighborhood in one of my favorite cities, I recently found my favorite two-block radius. My epiphany came, as epiphanies often do, over breakfast. I was sitting outside the South End Buttery drinking my coffee and watching the parade of dogs and their owners: two men in skinny polos and designer jeans holding hands and walking a massive yellow lab that kept stopping to eat the flowers growing along the sidewalk; mother with her daughter and a sleepy-looking beagle; older man and his equally aged golden retriever. I could have sat there for hours. That's one of my favorite things about Boston--unlike in New York, where the canines are either small or extra small, here the dogs are normal-sized.

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Two months ago we kicked off the Layover Nation Contest, a challenge to readers to identify some of the coolest things to do in and near major airports between flights. The Perrin Post, our sister blog, was flooded with quick excursions ranging from bungee jumping in New Zealand to skiing in Dubai (!). Alas, the contest has ended--you'll find the finalists on the Perrin Post--but not without creating fodder for our reporter Michael Kinsley, who will set off to report on the chosen excursions--and many more--for the magazine next month.

Check the Daily Traveler in September for Kinsley's mini-blog--we'll be announcing the dates soon. Meanwhile, we are happy to feature some of those layover ideas here on the Daily Traveler. This week we are tackling Australia and New Zealand.   

Have your own ideas? Let us know in comments.

Recently, we bopped around from Houston to Austin to Forth Worth. Check us out.

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And here are the posts, rounded up together:
* Tim Love's burger shack in Fort Worth
* Meaty greetings from Houston
* Spa at the Four Seasons Austin

We hit up a handful of hotspots in Boston last week. Here they are below, mapped out, so you might follow in our footsteps--or, rather, in our trail of crumbs.

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And here are the posts, rounded up together:
* The Liberty Hotel
* Lauren Clark's cocktails about town
* O Ya Restaurant
* Sandwiches to dream of