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Portuguese town opens window to its slave-trade history

LAGOS, Portugal – To the casual visitor, Lagos is a striking beach town of charming coastlines and sightly sandstone cliffs. A medieval castle sits alongside boutique cafés and outdoor resta...

DATE: Feb 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Bobblehead heaven: Museum features thousands

Friends create hall of fame in Milwaukee

DATE: Feb 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

After delays, Egypt’s new mega-museum set to open in 2020

CAIRO – On the Giza Plateau outside Cairo, thousands of Egyptians are laboring in the shadow of the pyramids to erect a monument worthy of the pharaohs. The Grand Egyptian Muse...

DATE: Feb 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Apps gauge airport security wait time – with your help

Airport security lines can behave like curly hair: One small change in the atmosphere and everything can go out of whack. Weather, holidays and most recently the partial government shutdown ...

DATE: Feb 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Historical time travelers bring distant eras to crackling life

MOUNT VERNON, Va. – Elizabeth Keaney’s work dress code might be stricter than yours: Her gig portraying a young Martha Washington at Mount Vernon means she spends 30 minutes a day lacing her...

DATE: Feb 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Snowbound California guests freed after 5 days at lodge

LOS ANGELES – More than 120 visitors and staff who were snowbound in a Sierra Nevada resort for five days have been freed, authorities said Friday. Up to 7 feet of snow trapped th...

DATE: Feb 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Hotel guests baffled by after-the-fact damage charges

After Doris Weller checked out of the Hampton Inn Parsippany, she assumed that she’d settled her bill. But the New Jersey hotel had a final surprise: a mysterious $250 charge to her Discover...

DATE: Feb 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

United courts the affluent travelers with more premium seats

United, Delta and American Airlines are engaged in an airlines arms race to grab the most affluent customers. Now highly profitable after losing billions in the 2000s, they are pl...

DATE: Feb 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Travelers bound for Britain face new Brexit uncertainty

Teri-Lee Lawler-Baack is a little nervous after a British Parliament vote on Brexit set the stage for a potentially chaotic “no deal” departure from the European Union on March 29. She’s not...

DATE: Feb 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

A Super Bowl great’s playbook for beating travel stress

NFL icon and three-time Super Bowl winner Jerry Rice is one of the best players in football history. A member of two football Halls of Fame (pro and college), the San Francisco 49ers wide re...

DATE: Feb 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Tourists preserve Italian frescoes during two-week program

“Is it OK,” I asked, “to put my hand here?” “Here” was Jesus’ brown hair, on a 700-year-old fresco of the crucifixion, in a cave church in Puglia, Italy. In the fresco, Jesus’ eye...

DATE: Feb 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel