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Durango airport sees dip in passengers

Director says demand still high, drop is not related to Gold King

DATE: Oct 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Sewer museum reveals ‘intestines of Paris’

PARIS – Forget Versailles, the Eiffel Tower and French fashion. When I want to be impressed by a marvel of Parisian design I head to the Musee des Egouts, aka the Sewer Museum. Su...

DATE: Sep 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Travel

Take a spin in Seattle

But don’t get stuck on the chewing-gum wall

DATE: Sep 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Travel

Is enough space on an airplane a human right?

Do you have the right to room on a plane? If you answered “no,” you’re probably with the majority of American travelers. After all, airlines are private companies, and you always ...

DATE: Sep 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Bike count underway in Durango

The city of Durango has enlisted the support of more than 70 volunteers to sit at strategic street corners during the morning commute to count bicyclists and pedestrians as part of the biann...

DATE: Sep 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

In city-states, Mayans built complex culture

San Diego exhibit explores architecture, astronomy, sport

DATE: Sep 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Travel

In Rwanda, gorillas draw growing number of tourists

In Rwanda, gorillas draw growing number of visitors

DATE: Sep 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Travel

How to weather the wild climate in airline cabins

When Eric Crusius boarded his recent American Airlines flight from Washington to Dallas, the air conditioning was powered down and the cabin started to heat up quickly, just as you might exp...

DATE: Sep 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Unplugged and rediscovering the world

Joys and discomforts during a month without technology on Spain’s Camino trail

DATE: Sep 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Travel

United Airlines CEO faces a long list of challenges

The new CEO of United Airlines faces a daunting list of problems he must fix, including late flights and technology that too often suffers embarrassing outages. But if Oscar Munoz...

DATE: Sep 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Travel

The dirtiest places on an airplane, ranked

Traveling can be kind of a nightmare for germ-a-phobes. Whether you go by plane, train or automobile, you’re sure to meet with dirty rest stop bathrooms, crowded trains and buses or people c...

DATE: Sep 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Travel

Gadgets to put you at ease on road trips

Somewhere on one of my social media accounts, there’s an image of me being pulled over for speeding in Pooler, Georgia. My crime? Doing 67 mph on a stretch of Interstate 95 where ...

DATE: Sep 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter