After President Obama’s State of the Union address at 9pm ET, the President and his administration will set out on a tour to announce which high-speed rail projects will receive stimulus funds.

On Thursday, the President will travel to Tampa, Florida, with Vice President Joe Biden to make their announcement in front of a town hall meeting.

Will a high-speed rail line be coming to a city near you? Keep reading to find out where corridors could be built and how much money states are in line to receive.

Got the Olympic fever? Irvina Lew reports on what’s happening in the Canadian cities that everyone is buzzing about. 

The longest torch relay in the history of the Games—a 106-day journey with 12,000 torch bearers traveling through 1000 communities—has begun.

The first snows of the season—a record-breaking 17 feet of white fluff—have fallen.

Many of the 1.6 million tickets for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (Vancouver2010.com) in Vancouver and Whistler/Blackcomb (in British Columbia) have been purchased.

Not to worry.

While only a fraction of the four billion people who are expected to watch the lighting of the Olympic Cauldron on February 12, 2010 will be lucky enough to see it in person, you can still be among them.

Dear Peter,
I know it’s our tradition to leave notes for each other in hotels around the world and for me to send you these electronic postcards as I travel on my own, but today I have decided to begin the Napa Bottle Blog since I am out and about doing the entire area scene.

There’s going to be a Born to Shop California Wine Country, so I will have a lot more to report on besides Napa, but right now I am living in the Westin Verasa in East Napa, California.

Amtrak has announced that this year’s ridership reached the second-highest mark in its history, despite a decline of more than 1 million passengers over the past year.

Amtrak officials say a decrease in business travel in the Northeast was what prevented the railroad from keeping up with last year’s surge in riders, which represented the highest number of Amtrak passengers ever recorded.

Keep reading to find out the latest on Amtrak and the American train system …

Though flight delays may have improved in the short term, they will only get worse as the economy recovers, according to a report released today by a public policy organization.

The non-partisan Brookings Institution analyzed commercial air patterns over the last 20 years and found that delays decreased in the past year only because the recession caused carriers to cut back on the number of flights offered.

So what does this think-tank recommend to make travel better? And can any of their ideas actually be implemented?

Sure, you might associate rail passes with students wearing the mandatory pair of Birkenstocks. But train passes have come a long way over the years, so here’s how they can help you.

Traveling by train can be a slow process, but if you use your train as a hotel room, you can save both time and money. But before you do that, there are some things you need to know.

It’s hard to believe—and it’s almost embarrassing to admit—that the French figured out high-speed trains in 1981.

They’re coming up on their 30th anniversary, and we’re still stuck with Amtrak.

Recently I took a ride on the TGV (the French high-speed train) from Paris to Nancy, and we were traveling nearly 200 mph.