Parking, when you can find it, is very expensive. And that’s only if you can find it.

Double parking, while illegal, is often the preferred method if you’ve just got to run into the shop to grab a bagel and coffee.

These are just a few rules Egypt’s former boy King should learn as his homeland prepares to bring his chariot to New York City. The chariot, which has not left Egypt for at least three centuries, has also gained a certain amount of notoriety.

After learning the young king had a broken leg shortly before he died, many scientists theorized the King may have fallen off his chariot while hunting. This theory, known as the “stuff we make up” theory, could play a central role during the chariot’s tour.

The chariot arrives Wednesday and will join Mr. Tut at the Discovery Times Square Exposition. In 2011, the chariot will head to Denver.

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Well a tour might be in order: So why not grab Gray Lines’ love bus, “Night on the Town.”

It’s a singles five-hour bus tour that includes a Top of the Rock Tour (Rockefeller Center), a romantic dinner in Little Italy (champagne anyone?) and a tour of the High Line (a park used for dumping bodies).

Of course, the entire night is filled with romance, as Gray Lines will include a sort of speed dating — forcing people to play musical chairs as the singles will be rotated from chair to chair to meet everyone on the bus. (In the past this was known as sitting next to a stranger or just riding the subway.)

And if you’re looking for romance, check out this line from the announce

ment of the tour: “What better place to meet the future apple of your eye than on a singles tour around the BIG Apple – with the amazing city skyline in the backdrop?”

You can’t make this stuff up.

The one-time tour would typically cost $89, but an online special is offering it for $59. The big tour is on June 3rd. It departs 777th 8th Avenue at 5:30 p.m.

Photos from Gray Lines.

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Call the cops: Look at all of the potential car bombs. They're everywhere.

Anyone traveling in New York City with a car — and we’re not entirely sure  why someone would take a car to the Big Apple — should note: If you park it, New Yorkers might call the police.

New Yorkers are rattled — just a few weeks ago, a poorly trained terrorist filled up an SUV with fireworks, parked it in Time Square and then lit the fuse. It was either Death to America or Come Celebrate Independence.

The SUV bomb fizzled but it demonstrated that New Yorkers could once again become victims of a terrorist.

So last night, when a man parked his car near Union Square, people called police and said it might be a car bomb. Legally parked vehicles have now become suspect, as any self respecting New Yorker would rather triple park before legally paying for parking.

After police were called,  the streets were blocked off, bomb squads showed up, robots were used and at least one building was evacuated, according to media reports.

The vehicle, which runs on gas, was considered suspicious because it had a gas can inside of it. The man who parked the car, discovered cops in coveralls poking his vehicle with a big stick when he returned from a nearby concert.

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Located just off of Interstate 87 in Upstate New York, Woodstock would love to see a few more visitors head out to this village of 6,000 people live. There’s long list of artists have a least stayed over night there — it’s much like heading to those “Washington Slept Here” trips

Really, there isn’t much there and could be visited in a single day — as it’s about as Upstate as most New York City dwellers care to go — using less than a single tank of gas on a round trip. You may not even need to get out of your car — drive through, snap a picture of you standing under the city sign for your facebook page and be back in the confines of NYC before afternoon tea. Much like the people visiting it, Woodstock is a poseur town and not nearly as exciting in the flesh than it may seem in your mind.

Ironically, the famous Woodstock concert actually took place Bethel, NY, about 40 miles away in Sullivan County. Visiting that site, a big hill, is about exciting as looking at grass. Really, just remember that the infamous concert took place on a farm in Bethel for cocktail conversations and you don’t even have to go there. Just act like the millions of baby boomers who say they were at the legendary three-day concert but really weren’t: Lie about it.

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While it’s fun to watch Al Roker get blown off of a roof top, or some other sucker standing in torrential downpours, a real traveler looks for that silver lining in the eye of the storm.

Sure Hurricane Bill is going to hit land somewhere in up Labrador, according to the Weather.com, but that’s Canada and once it devastates that region, we’re not likely to hear much about it.

But the upside to a category 3 storm is that the entire Eastern Seaboard is going to see radical big waves and crystal clear weather. Check out Surf.com for big wave reports and where to catch a few lessons.

Miami for the next few days is going to be a tropical bliss. Washington is going to be sunny and calm. Even the Big Apple’s concrete jungle will be disturbingly calm in the coming days.

See, hurricanes, as they gather strength, suck up all of the surrounding weather systems — growing during the process. So now is not the time to stock up on emergency supplies, it’s time to book a flight down south and enjoy. When Mother Nature gives Canada lemons, we should just make lemon shots.

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What they weren’t expecting was the door-to-door delivery from a small airplane, which left them for dead — seriously, they died. The New York Daily News is still sorting through the recently raised crash site, as everyone points fingers at everyone else.

So is a helicopter tour worth the money in New York City? Absolutely. For around $100 you can get pictures that will make all of your Facebook friends jealous. (Just make sure to add them judiciously, say three pics at first and then slowly add one a week for the next 10 weeks — this way you can remind everyone how you flew around the Big Apple and they didn’t

Now that a few people died, you score a few more points for bravery. It may sound morbid (which is cool) but it’s also true (which is cooler). And the likelihood of it happening again is even lower. Play the odds, and buy a tour on a whirly bird .

Key pictures to take: Statue of Liberty, Battery Park, Central Park, that spot the Twin Towers used to be and the Brooklyn Bridge. Other cool pics: You with a set of head phones on — which should be used as your profile pic for two weeks.

Here are a few tour companies worth looking into:

Zip Tours: $105 will get you quickie to the Lady of Liberty and Ground Zero fly over, $130 will get you a
little more.

Manhattan Helicopter Tours: Offers three tours — a full service 17 minute ride, a 12 minute ride and a 7 minute tour of the helipad. It doesn’t list prices on its website. But if you have to ask, can you really afford it?
Awesomeflight.com: These tours are a straight $500 for the bird — those the company’s helicopters kind of look like they were made with a bunch of leftover Radio Shack parts. There’s also a $750 package flown out of Westchester, for those too scared to actually go to New York City, but still want the pictures.

Liberty Helicopters: Offers a number of different tours ranging in price from $105 to $995 for complete rental of a bird. The tour company also shares the name of the tour company that was involved in the fatal collision last week — you know, the same one that resumed flying even before all of the wreckage was cleaned up. Of course, we don’t think that info was included more recent tours.

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Naturally, we needed a few cheat sheets — as only a few people on The Hipster Travel Guide staff are actually hipsters — the rest of us just want to pretend to be.

Understanding the genus Hipsterectus takes time, understanding, a love of plaid and the ability to type the word “hipster” in google.

For a crash course in hipsterdom, check out Look at this Fucking Hipster to better understand the ugly underbelly of hipsteritus. The pictures are sad, the captions are hysterical.

Of course, this creates copy cats, such as Stuff Hipsters Hate – a photo blog with much longer captions.

Then there is Robert Lanham, who wrote the hipster handbook, who takes on those who make fun of the hipsters. He’s to hipsters like Jane Goodall is to apes. He studied them, lived among them and now loves them.
We have no opinion one way or another. We just want to get on a plane, hop in a car or train and go somewhere else.

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