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How to master the delicate art of the do-nothing winter vacation

It’s a request travel experts get more often than you think: What if a person wants to go somewhere wintry, and do ... nothing? Sure, the snow and cold weather offer plenty of ac...

DATE: Dec 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

New planetarium seeks to put N.J. science center on travel map

New Jersey’s Liberty Science Center in Jersey City is aiming to take visitors into space in what they are billing as the largest planetarium in the Western Hemisphere. The Jennife...

DATE: Dec 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

After a wild year for travel, what lies ahead in 2018?

Travel bans. Shootings. Viral passenger videos. No one will forget the past year in travel. How could they? But what does it all mean for your 2018 trips? “These are in...

DATE: Dec 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

A tour of Paris in the footsteps of famous African-Americans

In City of Light, artists found acceptance

DATE: Dec 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

‘Overtourism’ disrupts life in Amsterdam, and the Dutch capital pushes back

AMSTERDAM – A group of cyclists slams on the brakes as a man pushing a wheeled suitcase stops abruptly in the middle of a busy bike path in downtown Amsterdam to pick up a toiletries bag he ...

DATE: Dec 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

AAA predicts record travel over Christmas and New Year’s

Comforted by a strong economy, more Americans than ever are expected to travel over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. Auto club AAA said Thursday that 107 million people will...

DATE: Dec 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

U.S. national parks to slash number of free days for visitors

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – National parks in the U.S. will sharply drop the number of days they allow visitors to get in for free, a move that was criticized by opponents of the parks’ plan to raise e...

DATE: Dec 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Los Angeles subway work uncovers array of Ice Age fossils

LOS ANGELES – As part of the crew digging a subway extension under the streets of Los Angeles, Ashley Leger always keeps her safety gear close by. When her phone buzzes, she quick...

DATE: Dec 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Hard history: Mississippi museums explore slavery, Klan era

JACKSON, Miss. – In the 1950s and ’60s, segregationist whites waved Confederate flags and slapped defiant bumper stickers on cars declaring Mississippi “the most lied about state in the Unio...

DATE: Dec 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

After the lights dim, Rockefeller Center Christmas trees still give

Rockefeller Center spruce used in Habitat for Humanity homes

DATE: Dec 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Is a drop in airline fines bad for flyers?

If it seems as if airlines are getting away with more passenger-unfriendly behavior, maybe it’s because they are. The Aviation Consumer Protection Division of the Department of Tr...

DATE: Dec 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Taliesin West: A magnet for fans of architect Frank Lloyd Wright

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona – Each year when the sizzling temperatures finally dipped in the southern Arizona desert, architect Frank Lloyd Wright and a small band of young apprentices would start t...

DATE: Dec 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

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