Travel And Commuting

Warm greetings from this side of the world

Hello from the Nepal outback. It's a 5-minute walk to a place where you can see the mountains of the Tibet border. We've been welcomed many, many times now by traditional dances o...

DATE: Nov 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: John Peel

Outbreaks test airlines’ refund policies

The deadly Ebola virus has arrived in the U.S. just in time for the holiday travel season, carrying fear and uncertainty with it. A survey late last month by Unicomm, an organize...

DATE: Nov 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Isles of highs and lows

Vanuatu a raw – but beautiful – vacation destination

DATE: Nov 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel

Scandinavia’s warm embrace

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

DATE: Nov 1, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel

Seated next to a pooch on a plane? Too bad

Some airline passengers are more equal than others, as Michael Morris found out when his daughter and 2-month-old granddaughter visited him from Los Angeles this summer. On their ...

DATE: Nov 1, 2014 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

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 ...

DATE: Nov 1, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel

In many ways, Nepal worlds away from the West

Durangoan’s journey to Nepal reveals differences from West

DATE: Oct 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: John Peel

Who’s really to blame for your delayed flight?

Even though Kurt Johnson doesn’t work for the TSA, that doesn’t stop him from lending a hand when he’s stuck in a long line at a security screening area. “I’ll sometimes grab an ...

DATE: Oct 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Learning how to live in China

Pick up the language, forget your manners and get acquainted with rice wine

DATE: Oct 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Letter from Korla

Crash course

Practicing what to do when your plane goes down

DATE: Oct 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel

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...

DATE: Oct 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel

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...

DATE: Sep 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel

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