King Tut lives

Egyptian pharaoh comes to life at San Diego exhibit

‘Booze Traveler’ explores how world drinks

Sampling spirits, making friends around the globe

How I learned to love the RV

Joy overrides anxiety during family’s tour of Southwest

Isles of highs and lows

Vanuatu a raw – but beautiful – vacation destination

Scandinavia’s warm embrace

Landscape, culture, friends make this vacation feel like a return home

Park preserves vanishing tallgrass prairie

STRONG CITY, Kan. – Stand here in a field of tall, windblown grass and wildflowers, and twirl around like a child. It’s like being inside a prairie snow globe: You’re surrounded by a sea of ...

Crash course

Practicing what to do when your plane goes down

8,578 miles: World’s longest nonstop flight

FORT WORTH, Texas – Qantas is putting the world’s biggest passenger plane on the world’s longest airline route. A Qantas Airbus A380 touched down Monday at Dallas-Fort Worth Inter...

More travelers discover allure of fall tourism

NEW YORK – Fall used to be off-peak for tourism everywhere except New England and other fall foliage destinations. But autumn tourism is rising, with traditional summer hot spots increasingl...

Gross things can happen to good passengers

You board a plane and find your seat stained with bodily fluids. Now what?

U.S. eager to cater to Chinese tourists

COSTA MESA, Calif. – On a hot summer day, nearly two dozen Chinese tourists descended from a white shuttle bus for an afternoon of shopping at one of Southern California’s signature upscale ...

Passenger explains seat dispute, use of Knee Defender

NEW YORK – The businessman whose dispute with a fellow airline passenger over a reclined seat sparked a national debate about air-travel etiquette says he’s embarrassed by the way the confro...