Amazing Race host Phil Keoghans Top 5 travel picks for 2008

ROAD MAP: Keoghan made a list of goals, then vowed to do everything humanly possible to turn the list that I wrote into my living.

By Andrew Dean Nystrom

Jan. 11, 2008 12 AM PT

Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES —

Traveling upwards of 250,000 miles per year in his role as host of CBS’ Emmy Award-winning series “The Amazing Race,” Phil Keoghan knows a thing or two about up-and-coming and off-the-beaten-track adventure travel destinations. His personal record for miles flown in a year? Somewhere north of 467,000.

During a recent layover in Los Angeles, I interviewed Phil about his travel philosophy and asked him for his top travel destination picks for 2008.

Watch the video for footage from a few of Phil’s favorite locations that the show has visited during its first 12 seasons: India, Ethiopia, Ireland, Argentine Patagonia and, most recently, Croatia.

Check our Daily Travel Blog for coverage of the final two episodes of Season 12 of “The Amazing Race,” which are scheduled to air the next two Sundays, Jan. 13 and Jan. 20, at 8 p.m. PST, on CBS.