Luxury Rock Star Tour Buses Become A Travel Option in This Pandemic
Posted on 10/02/2020, 8:00 PM
There’s a certain flavor of fear that comes from trying to do something potentially dangerous that you are in no way competent to do. I experienced that intense mix of panic and embarrassment while trying to park a Class A motor home for the first time. Eventually, my husband had to slide into the sweat-soaked driver’s seat and finish the job. Piloting the mammoth vehicle was just one of many of t...
Teenager Creates Fun New Video Travel Guessing Game
Posted on 10/01/2020, 10:00 AM
Earlier this week, we introduced you to some of our favorite YouTube channels for wonderfully zen, long-play videos that walk viewers through neighborhoods around the world. Today, we bring you a free travel video site that's even more interactive. Created by teen web developer Paul McBurney Jr., City Guesser screens clips of strolls in world cities, but without identifying them. The object of the...
Tampa Bay to Be First U.S. Airport to Offer All Passengers Covid-19 Test
Posted on 09/30/2020, 9:00 AM
Starting Thursday, October 1, Tampa Bay International Airport (TPA) will become the first airport in the United States to offer onsite Covid-19 testing for all passengers. "As a gateway to the West Coast of Florida with a growing market for international travel, Tampa International Airport has a responsibility to explore safe, rapid and affordable ways to keep our travelers, their destinations and...
In a Pre-Election Gambit, the Trump Administration Announces New Travel Bans for Cuba
Posted on 09/29/2020, 11:00 AM
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense," the Mad Hatter told Alice in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. "Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” That mercurial milliner's words apply to this week's current events, which saw the announcement of a new curtailmen...
Would You Travel for Beer? United Airlines Debuts Themed Flight Searches
Posted on 09/29/2020, 7:00 AM
On a recent episode of NPR's Marketplace, aviation history professor Janet Bednarek of the University of Dayton was asked to describe the current state of the airline industry. She boiled it down to one word: "Armageddon." In her view, we are in the middle of "the worst crisis in the history of American aviation." That's not hyperbole. It is expected that the airlines will cut tens of thousands of...
Flyers Pretend to Eat to Avoid Masking Up, So United Changed the Rules
Posted on 09/28/2020, 8:00 AM
One thing that has been unmasked in recent months is just how sneaky Americans are willing to be to get around the rules for face coverings. The issue came to the fore in July when staffers at Walt Disney World noticed that some visitors were wandering around maskless for hours, carrying an open beverage so they could say they had an excuse for flouting the policy. To stop that behavior, Disney an...
The World's Largest Chocolate Fountain Debuts in Switzerland
Posted on 09/25/2020, 8:00 AM
Who says nothing good has happened in 2020? Ok, that would be us—over and over and over. But now we have an exception: Swiss chocolate manufacturer Lindt & Sprüngli, which has been in business since 1845, just opened the Lindt Home of Chocolate, a lollapalooza of a new museum in Zürich. The candy giant poured some US$108 million into the facility, which took more than three years to create. E...
Southwest's Sweet Deal for a Free Companion Ticket Ends Thursday, Sept. 24
Posted on 09/22/2020, 8:00 AM
This is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it sale. Purchase tickets on Southwest Airlines by the end of the day on Thursday, September 24, for a flight between now and November 15, and you will have the right to bring a companion for free every time you fly between January 6 and February 28, 2021. (Note: the deadline was extended to end of day on Friday, September 25). When the time comes to book your 2021...
Colleges and Universities Are Canceling Spring Break in 2021
Posted on 09/21/2020, 11:00 AM
No need to practice your keg stand or to save up for a bikini smaller than the dollar bills you'll use to buy it. Some six months in advance, universities are announcing that because of the pandemic, they will drop the usual spring break from their schedules in 2021. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Michigan, Purdue University, Baylor University, Carnegie Mellon University,...
Another Job Posting for Beer-Loving Hikers: Visit National Parks for $50k
Posted on 09/21/2020, 6:00 AM
Looks like Michelob Ultra has decided to outmatch a job posting we saw a while back. In June, the artisanal Devils Backbone Brewing Company offered what sounded like a sweet deal. The brand's new CHO—or "Chief Hiking Officer"—would get to hike the Appalachian Trail, drink a lot of beer, and try to get attention online. For those efforts, the CHO would be paid $20,000 and all expenses. Now Michelo...
