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What all the recent United Airlines headlines may mean for travelers

Now that the dust has almost settled from United Airlines’ infamous passenger-expulsion incident, travelers are left with several important and largely unanswered questions about how this ke...

Simple is best and other lessons from a road trip with kids

GETTYSBURG, Pa. Road trip season is around the corner. Does that fill you with memories of painful car trips stuck between siblings in the backseat? Or do you relish the idea of ...

U.S. facing shortage of yellow fever vaccine for travelers

NEW YORK – Americans who need a yellow fever shot for travel may soon have a harder time getting it. A manufacturing problem has created a shortage of the only version of the vacc...

Not the Mile High Club: 1 in 10 travelers has sex in an airport, survey finds

Romance is in the air – and sometimes in the airport, according to an online flight-shopping service. About 1 in 10 American air travelers reports having had sex of some kind at a...

Winter lingered in northern New England, and so will the mud

NEW GLOUCESTER, Maine – Spring is in the air. But mud is on the ground, and will be for a while. Mud season is an annual mucky rite of passage in the lives of northern New England...

Disabled passengers decry upcharges

Flying with a disability is never easy, but in the past, airlines have lightened the burden a little by offering passengers such as Scott Nold advance seat assignments. Nold, a re...

Tourism, technology threaten Icelandic language

English encroaches on unique dialect of Old Norse

Fly-fishing in Cuba’s Bay of Pigs

Pristine water, family-run restaurants highlight trip

Photo essay: Chernobyl’s ghost town draws daring visitors

PRIPYAT, Ukraine – A bulletin board in the Ukrainian town of Pripyat still bears an edition of the Sovietsky Patriot newspaper, dated three days before the nuclear explosion that turned the ...

A road trip along Ireland’s breathtaking west coast

Ireland, we decided: the west coast of Ireland. Offseason, when accommodations would be inexpensive. That’s how our party of three childhood friends found ourselves tooling along the Dingle ...

10 easy ways to reduce travel stress

The stress of travel is enough to make you wonder if the getaway is worth it. Alice Boyes, who travels about one week out of every month, knows how trying the process can be. “The...

Ticked off over a ticket? Try using some tech tools

Who is sending Katherine Johnson’s daughter parking tickets? The Miami Parking Authority’s citations, usually for $42 apiece, have arrived in the mail intermittently since 2014 fo...