Welcome to the January 7, 2009 edition of Carnival of Travelers.
This month’s carnival theme is Travel Resolutions –—getting rid of those barriers to traveling, finally going to the destination of our dreams, finding ways to afford to travel, and setting goals of things to see and places to go that further our love of seeing the world.
We have a varied group of posts this month, so enjoy reading them and setting your own resolutions for 2009.

Travel Advocate presents Hidden Hotel Travel Dangers Safeguarding the Room for Kids posted at The Travel Advocate.

Sean Reynolds presents European Motorcycle …read more

My travel resolutions last year were sort of a mixed bag, but I have a feeling 2009 is going to be a year of more travel and more travel experiences.
I want to discover some new places, but I also want to revisit some spots to see how they’ve changed, or how I’ve changed and now see them differently.  So my resolutions are a combination of old and new, all with the goal of seeing the world one place and one experience at a time.
Here they are –

Visit two new countries
Visit two new states
Re-visit five places that I’ve already been, …read more