1950s School Bus That Once Toured 200,000 Miles Revs Up for New Journey
Posted on 02/09/2021, 1:00 PM
A 1950s school bus that already racked up more than 200,000 miles on two continents decades ago is going back on the road. Josh Jackling and Carolyn McKenna spent three years renovating the vehicle, which once belonged to Jackling's grandparents. According to In The Know, the older couple, who have both since passed away, drove the bus throughout North and South America, keeping a guestbook of th...
Listen to Live Radio from Around the World with This Melodious Website
Posted on 02/09/2021, 7:00 AM
There's no replacing travel when it comes to expanding your horizons. But after nearly a year at home, I'm finding small ways to make my world feel larger—it's kind of like being on a strict diet and rediscovering how sweet common fruits can taste. One of those tiny treats: listening to radio from around the globe. A website called Radio Garden makes that easy to do. Go to the site and you'll...
Yardi Gras! With Parades on Pause, New Orleans Decorates Homes Like Floats
Posted on 02/08/2021, 2:00 PM
In response to the pandemic, New Orleans has banned the following from the 2021 Mardi Gras celebrations in the days around Tuesday, February 16: parades, bars, to-go drinks, and large gatherings. But if you think that means the citizenry will spend Fat Tuesday sitting in darkened living rooms and hurling strings of beads at their cats, you underestimate the creativity of this uniquely creative c...
Four Men Eat Crate of Oranges at Chinese Airport to Avoid Excess Baggage Fee
Posted on 02/05/2021, 11:00 AM
How far would you go to get out of paying an extra fee at the airport? Whatever your answer, we're guessing it doesn't involve gobbling up nearly 70 pounds of produce in less than 30 minutes. But that's exactly what four men in China accomplished in order to avoid an excess baggage fee at an airport in Kunming, the capital of the country's southwestern Yunnan province. According to the Global ...
Going Maskless on Planes, Buses, or Trains Could Now Cost $1,500 or More
Posted on 02/05/2021, 11:00 AM
For most of 2020, airlines and other travel suppliers urgently told customers to wear masks. But if passengers were unwilling to comply, there wasn't much that could be done. The major air carriers did have the prerogative to ban noncompliant individuals from future travel—some 3,000 names have been added to the airlines' no-fly lists that way—but that's as far as those companies could go. No mat...
MAPS: Learn the Most Popular Tourist Souvenir In Countries Around the World
Posted on 02/01/2021, 2:00 PM
Based on the merchandise for sale at airports and hotel gift shops, we'd guess that the world's most popular souvenirs are T-shirts and refrigerator magnets. But a new illustrated map of the top souvenirs from each country tells a different story. To compile the graphic (pictured above), released by the all-inclusive resort brand Club Med, staffers researched the souvenirs most frequently associ...
This Year, You Finally, Really, Truly Need Real ID to Fly
Posted on 02/01/2021, 10:00 AM
Update, April 27, 2021: Guess what? The government delayed Real ID yet again. Click here to read about the new deadline.We really mean it this time: Real ID becomes mandatory at U.S. airports on October 1, 2021. We know. Americans have heard this warning before. A perennial victim of politics and pandemics since the formulation of the Real ID Act in 2005, the deadline has been announced, delayed, ...
TSA Rolling Out Self-Scan I.D. Checkpoints That Don't Need Boarding Passes
Posted on 01/29/2021, 11:00 AM
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has converted 100% of its security checkpoints at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to accept self-scanned identification verification. It's the first airport in the United States to switch fully to the new system. No longer do passengers hand their I.D.s to human gatekeepers at LAX. Instead, flyers insert their own documentation into a Creden...
Endless Summer: More Theme Parks Now Staying Open Year-Round
Posted on 01/27/2021, 2:00 PM
Outside of Florida and Southern California, where the weather allows theme parks to stay open year-round (provided there's no plague on), the standard operating procedure at most parks goes like this: Open in spring, rake in the business during summer vacation, capitalize on childhood's high holy days of Halloween and Christmas with special events in the fourth quarter, and then go into hibernatio...
After 40 Years, Pompeii Fully Reopens Its Treasure-Filled Antiquarium
Posted on 01/27/2021, 1:00 PM
In some ways, the Antiquarium museum at the archeological park of Pompeii has had as troubled a history as the doomed city itself. The facility opened back in 1873 but since then, it had to shutter twice, first because it was bombed during World War II, and again in 1980 because of damage from an earthquake. The museum didn't fully reopen for decades following that catastrophe. But on January 25,...
