He had fond memories, dating to his late-1950s childhood, of family trips in a Volkswagen van. In the early 2000s, he started thinking that others might like to dip their…
New ground transportation options are blossoming in the sharing economy. A recent Bank of America review of its credit and debit card users found that people are thinking differently about…
Visitors spent a record total of $37 billion, up nearly 3 percent compared with the previous year, according to Ryan Skeete, acting research director for the Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization.…
A survivor, lower right, walks away from the scene of a deadly tour helicopter crash Saturday along the jagged rocks of the Grand Canyon, in Arizona.Teddy Fujimoto via AP Three…
The pioneering artist, who had a brief but productive stint as an illustrator of pulp crime and romance magazines of the era, is being celebrated with an exhibition of her…
This 2009 photograph shows the stalled Fontainebleau Las Vegas casino-hotel project in Las Vegas. The hulking, bluish casino-resort, which has sat unfinished on the Las Vegas Strip since 2009 and…
City remains one of the most interesting destinations in the U.S.
Two of his checked bags vanished during a multi-connection trip that originated in Baltimore. And when they didn’t show up at the luggage carousel in Kauai, Collins felt like he’d…
But these former Sin City landmarks are missing light bulbs and some of the remaining are cracked or hang by a wire. They have not being restored and are not…
But Mike and Anne Howard took their honeymoon on the road, threw in a sense of adventure and learned to travel cheaply in trips to seven continents over five years.…
The robot named Sawyer debuted this week at Henna Cafe in Tokyo’s downtown business and shopping district of Shibuya. The shop’s name in Japanese means “strange cafe.” The single-armed robot…
A service dog named Orlando rests on the foot of its trainer, John Reddan, while sitting inside a United Airlines plane at Newark Liberty International Airport during a training exercise,…
Lake Placid is one of only three places to host two Winter Olympics. (St. Moritz, Switzerland and Innsbruck, Austria, are the others.) The heroics of the U.S. hockey team and…
Median rent rises $380 in New York City, up to 13,500 units removed from market
Booking one-way travel and avoiding peak travel times are two ways to get the most out of your airline miles.Associated Press file Accumulating miles isn’t the hard part – it’s…
That’s what happened to James Quinn, who planned to vacation on the Caribbean island of St. Maarten in October. The problem: Princess Juliana International Airport, on the Dutch side of…
It surely is winter at the Denver Botanic Gardens York Street, east of downtown Denver. Outside, the vibrant colors of spring, summer and fall blooms and foliage are absent, yet…
A worker at a state liquor store changes prices on wine, liquor and beer in Salt Lake City. In Mormon dominated Utah where alcohol is frowned upon, liquor sales keep…
Empty water tanks sit at the edge of a brine well operation, shown at right of tanks, as a major irrigation canal flows by in Carlsbad, N.M. Experts are painting…
Her journey to Durango, though, was a long one, leading her around the world and connecting her with the rich and famous. Skill is originally from Windsor, Ontario, across the…
The Serbian museum, dedicated to everything to do with the 19th-century inventor and electricity pioneer, remained in relative obscurity for decades under the communist-run former Yugoslavia. But thanks to a…
Ruined tower, Canyons of the Ancients National Monument.Courtesy of Bob Wick, Bureau of Land Management In 2017, the BLM released its route inventories on an online interactive map for public…
Despite a slump in international tourism to the U.S. in the last two years, the U.S. Department of Commerce on Friday released a report forecasting an 18.5 percent growth in…
Delta Air Lines is changing its policy for service and support animals as the number of animals in the cabin increases.Associated Press file The airline says complaints about animals biting…
When he recently searched online for a flight from Rochester, New York, to Boston, he says he found several affordable prices only to have them replaced with “this fare is…
Travelers cross Arctic Circle on two-week journey
Fourteen states stretching from Kansas to Delaware, including all of the Deep South, are joining to promote the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, which will highlight about 130 sites linked to…
A lawsuit filed Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018 alleges Motel 6 discriminated against some of its Latino customers in Phoenix by giving their personal information to federal immigration agents who later…
The Lexus Velodrome, which had its grand opening Monday, is in an inflatable, climate-controlled dome a few miles north of a new professional hockey and basketball arena and close to…
