Best of Travel Blogs: Crossing Borders, Saving Whisky and Feeding Hippos

You can almost touch the momentum of travel bloggers around the world as they run with their New Year’s Resolutions to post more and post better:

• For those keen to compare the every day costs at different destinations so you can make the most out of your traveling dollars, try a useful post at Vagablogging on Cost-comparing your destinations
• Gadling has some tips on how to deal with air travel in light of the prediction that things are only going to get worse in 2008: prices will rise, more luggage will get lost and planes will be more crowded
• Along the lines of secret Wurst recipes and champagne being a drink that only comes from a particular region of France, the United Kingdom is considering ways to protect whisky, according to a report at Vagabondish.
• The brave travelers at Brave New Traveler posted an interesting read on surviving dangerous border crossings with some helpful tips for any tricky passport control situation
• At Perceptive Travel, there’s a great piece on traveling with children which seems to decide that it’s really not as hard as all those checklists and warnings make it out to be
• And because I love an animal story, I also got a good laugh out of reading GoNomad’s tales of feeding a hippo in South Africa