Imagine booking your dream vacation online but instead getting the holiday from hell. In the most Online Travel Fraudelaborate case of its kind, a travel company that booked vacations between July 2003 and August 2006 has been prosecuted for advertising and selling vacation packages that didn't exist.

Leyla GirayLeyla is both a backpacker and a nomad - at least in spirit. Wherever she is, she usually wants to be somewhere else! It started many generations before her - rumor

Backpacking ZenBackpacking isn't an activity - it's a state of mind...It's akin to slow travel, without limits, long-distance and timeless travel. It's also light travel, bearing only what you can comfortably carry for a day on foot.

Tropical AdventureThe dollar is down and if you get any greener you'll go from eco-chick to complete hippie. So how exactly are you going to justify a tropical vacation?

Argentina AdventureHow many of your friends use this one? I have lots. And I'm honest with them. Put your plasma-TV dream on hold and open up a travel savings account....

Qbic HotelsBeen there, done that with high-end lux hotels? Pod, capsule and cube hotels are the newest buzzed-about way to travel on a dime. Japan pioneered the micro-pods, but some big companies are putting a new spin on the idea of cheap, no-frills rooms delivered