The NY Times takes an epic train journey from New York to San Francisco. It takes about four days on the train, but with stops in Chicago, Denver and Nevada the trip lasted a week. There’s also a family trip to Marrakesh and the villages of India.

The Australian goes in search of polar bears in Manitoba, staying in a movable tundra lodge. They try out the Goodwill Guides in Japan and they’re in search of spices in Singapore.

Simon Barnes also goes looking for bears in Canada in The Times. There’s also ranch life in Argentina and camping in Paris.

In The Guardian, Tim Dowling checks in to the worst hotel in Britain (according to Trip Advisor) and disappointingly doesn’t find it to be that bad. Further afield there’s Hugh Thomson in the Sierra Madre, Kevin Rushby on a musical tour of Mali and a look at tourism in the Albanian Alps.

In The Telegraph Charles Starmer-Smith goes skiing in St Anton in a campervan and there’s an excellent piece on Laos (except their web links to the operator (TransIndus) don’t work. It’s always really frustrating for an operator who gives the paper a free trip, put loads of effort into making it go well and then the paper pays them back by putting a comma instead of a full stop in their URL)

In The Times Daniel Finkelstein gets around to writing up a trip he made to Crete three years ago. He must have been busy. Why don’t travel pieces put the date they travelled in the piece? I guess they wouldn’t be able to re-hash old articles. Elsewhere, Eleanor Mills visits the quirky but costly Carlisle Bay in Antigua. There’s also a visit to Saudi and whale watching off the Irish coast.

The NY Times goes spearfishing in Michigan. There’s slightly more appealing fishing in The Bahamas and Christine Woodside looks back at 7 years of taking her kids on The Appalachian Trail.

The Guardian goes on a wine trip in Argentina (nice), walking in Wales, another safari in Mozambique and comedy in Meribel. Comedy is in short supply though in part 4 of Danny’s desperately unfunny big adventure.