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Train lovers forge lifelong friendships through rail travel

ORLANDO, Fla. – They’re aboard because they love trains: The pilot from New Orleans, the computer consultant from New Jersey, the retired tax lawyer from Florida, the computer accounting con...

DATE: Oct 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

U.S. lacks Latino historical sites and landmarks, scholars say

GLORIETA PASS, N.M. – A makeshift memorial to Hispanic Civil War Union soldiers in an isolated part northern New Mexico is a typical representation of sites linked to U.S. Latino history: It...

DATE: Oct 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Have 19 hours? World’s longest commercial flight takes off

SINGAPORE – The world’s longest direct commercial flight is back and taking travelers from Singapore to the New York region. Operated by Singapore Airlines, the city-state’s natio...

DATE: Oct 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Charcoal makers in Spain keep embers of an old trade burning

VILORIA, Spain – Even though he receives the occasional helping hand from his 22-year-old son, Miguel Lander knows that the days of making charcoal the traditional way are counted in these r...

DATE: Oct 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

On a trip to the Himalayas, I learned about altitude sickness the hard way

When I told friends I was going to Tibet last spring, almost everyone asked, “What are you doing to prevent altitude sickness?” Not nearly enough, it turned out, given the headach...

DATE: Oct 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Shanghai airport automates check-in with facial recognition

SHANGHAI – It’s now possible to check in automatically at Shanghai’s Hongqiao airport using facial recognition technology, part of an ambitious rollout of facial recognition systems in China...

DATE: Oct 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

See the world in your 20s without racking up debt

It’s a dilemma many 20-somethings face: You badly want to travel the world. But if your bank account could talk, it would say, “Are you kidding?” When you’re just starting out, ev...

DATE: Oct 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Treasures of Silver City: A New Mexico town rich in art, history, food

We’ve always been a little unconventional. So when my husband, Michael, and I wanted to mark our 25th anniversary, rather than buying a silver platter, we looked for a place with “silver” in...

DATE: Oct 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Google’s Waze expands carpooling service throughout U.S.

SAN FRANCISCO – Google will begin offering its pay-to-carpool service throughout the U.S., an effort to reduce the commute-time congestion that its popular Waze navigation app is designed to...

DATE: Oct 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Mass tourism overwhelms Croatia’s ‘Game of Thrones’ town

‘It’s chaos, the whole thing is chaos’

DATE: Oct 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

High in Sicily’s mountains, residents enjoy life’s simple pleasures

GANGI, Sicily – Far from the packed beaches of Sicily’s busy coastlines, there’s a quieter and wilder world in its high mountains. In more dangerous times, this was where much of ...

DATE: Oct 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

New Zealand fines travelers who won’t unlock secure devices

CANBERRA, Australia – Visitors to New Zealand can be fined 5,000 New Zealand dollars ($3,243) for refusing to provide passwords to unlock electronic devices and allow customs officials to ex...

DATE: Oct 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel