Los Angeles Times Travel Show this weekend

Get your butt out to Long Beach this weekend! The Los Angeles Times Travel & Adventure Show is hip and  happening. Plan a vacation, shop brochures for the ideal honeymoon, or listen to the big names in travel give you good reasons for getting out of dodge.

I'll be there all weekend and moderating the panel, "Online Travel Tips & Tricks from the Experts" with Johnny Jet, Juliana Shalcross of HotelChatter.com and George Hobica, creator of one of my fave travel websites - Airfare Watchdog. (Sat. 12noon, Room 104A)

I'll also be interviewing Pauline Frommer live from the show on Saturday and will be a guest on Arthur & Pauline Frommer's The Travel Show radio program on Sunday. It's one mega travel weekend!

Other big names at the show include Rick Steves, Phil Keoghan from The Amazing Race, and a bunch of serious adventurers with National Geographic Adventure.

One author I'm excited to meet is Don Mankin, co-author of Riding the Hulahula to the Arctic Ocean. I love that he wrote an adventure book for travelers over 40.

Come on out - you can find me in the L.A. Times booth, meeting the masses and talking about our favorite subject - TRAVEL.

CURRENT: Hyatt, Long Beach
NEXT: San Francisco...to take the first Virgin America flight to San Diego!