For people who believe that traveling is fun here are some fun facts that you should know. Here is the review for the year: the wild, the weird and the wacky of travel.
Let start if off with, the filmmaking buddies, who back in June were on their way home to California when their connecting flight was canceled, stranding them overnight at D/FW International Airport. So they started filming themselves in the empty terminal, racing wheelchairs, goofing around on the escalators, shining each other's shoes and helping themselves to a beer, among other high jinks. The result, a short film titled Stuck, became a YouTube hit, generating laughter, admiration and amazement that such a security-conscious venue didn't seem to know what was going on. Although one airport board member harrumphed that the pranksters undermined airport security and vowed it would never happen again, the airport brass said there was never any danger and there would be no repercussions.

The real money would be in renting blankets
Ryanair, the Irish budget airline, is thinking about enhancing revenue by offering pay-per-view porn on its flights. Media reported that company boss Michael O'Leary said he would make the option discreet. "I'm not talking about having it on screens on the back of seats for everyone to see," he said. "It would be on handheld devices." O'Leary previously had proposed increasing profits by having just one toilet on each plane to fit in more seats.

Critter stories
An Oregon man on an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Anchorage was stung by a scorpion. Jeff Ellis said he was trying to sleep when he felt something in his sleeve and tried to brush it away. The scorpion then stung him on the elbow. He wasn't seriously hurt. An airline spokeswoman said it was the first onboard incident involving a poisoning creature. For his trouble, Ellis was awarded 4,000 frequent-flier miles and two round-trip tickets.
JFK Airport in New York shut down a runway during turtle mating season so 150 diamond terrapins could make it to a sandy area and lay their eggs. Some flights were delayed and by day's end, @JFKTurtles had nearly 3,000 followers on Twitter.

A Delta Connection flight from Madison to Atlanta turned around and returned to Wisconsin when a stowaway bat began flying around the cabin. A passenger trapped the bat in the lavatory and shut the door.
Ask your teenage grandson for a fake ID
A London travel firm announced it was banning anyone over 80 years old from joining its tours because they move too slowly. Martin Randall told British media that because of bad experiences with older travelers, he wouldn't even let Queen Elizabeth II, a sprightly 85, on the tour bus.
"It would take a long time to walk to the museums or archaeological sites because someone was so slow, and time at the attractions would be reduced," he said. "And tour leaders would find an unfair quantity of their time consumed by them."

Airport cover-up
A Kentucky lawyer began marketing T-shirts and briefs with what he claims is special ink to blur the images of nosy airport scanning machines. Marc Carey reports brisk sales of ScannerShirts, which sport stars, happy faces and bald eagle logos over body parts that you don't want to become part of a rogue security agent's private photo collection. Carey said his unique underwear would let scanners do their jobs and "allow people to travel without a great deal of inconvenience and preserve their dignity."

Airport cover-up, part 2
Travelers have other options, including Flying Pasties, rubber patches for women and men to place strategically under their clothing. Customers can order them imprinted with custom messages such as "only my husband sees me naked." The Transportation Security Administration advises passengers, in a blog post, to save their money: "If there is something shielding an area and we don't know what's under it, we have to conduct a pat-down."
Tired of stories about excessive, inappropriate airport security checks? Then join the Yukari Miyamae fan club. The 61-year-old translator from Colorado was arrested at the Phoenix airport when she objected to a security screening and allegedly grabbed the screener's breasts. Initial felony charges of sexual assault were dropped, but Miyamae still may face misdemeanor charges and a fine. Meanwhile, she's a hero to some, with thousands of admirers on Facebook, a legal defense fund, commemorative T-shirts and online comments such as, "Thanks to Yukari for standing up for all our rights!"

Law and Order: Special Tourism Unit
Florida passed a law cracking down on crooks who pass out phony pizza fliers in hotels, then steal credit card information from people calling to order.
A Canadian man was arrested outside the Reichstag parliament building in Berlin for posing for pictures while giving the stiff-arm Nazi salute, which is illegal in Germany.
A Long Island man wearing military fatigues was arrested at JFK Airport for impersonating a soldier to get free upgrades. News accounts said he was nabbed when agents noticed his dog tags said "U.S.A. Marines Corp" and "he was wearing patches in all the wrong places."
And keep the upchuck bag handy

If you forgot to pack Breathe Right
Crowne Plaza is making noise in the snoring market. Hotels in England with designated quiet zones for light sleepers have begun snore patrols to ferret out nasal noisemakers. Meanwhile, Crowne Plaza hotels in Europe and the Middle East are pioneering "snore absorption rooms" with soundproof walls and headboards, anti-snoring bed wedges and pillows, and white-noise machines. The chain cited research claiming that half of British couples complain that their partner's snoring can ruin a vacation.

A stream of bad news
Robert Vietze, an 18-year-old champion skier from Vermont, was banished from the U.S. Ski Team's developmental squad after he was accused of getting drunk and urinating in the aisle of a JetBlue flight from Portland, Ore., to New York.
Officials at Olympic National Park in Washington warned hikers not to relieve themselves on back-country trails because the resulting salt deposits could attract mountain goats. In 2010, a hiker in the park died after a mountain goat gored him in the thigh. Although such incidents are rare, the park advised, "There is a high potential for goat-human interactions."
French movie star Gerard Depardieu was kicked off a flight from Paris to Ireland when his attempt to urinate in a bottle at his seat wasn't confined to the bottle. The actor said flight attendants wouldn't let him use the bathroom even though the takeoff had been delayed more than an hour. He said he tried to explain that "I'm not a terrorist, I just want to pee."

I hope you enjoyed it....