Author: Sophia Rodriguez
There's a running gag among air commuters to wear all their clothes at once instead of buying a larger suitcase and paying checked baggage fees. If you're worried about the weight of your bag, you can always do a trick like this guy did. Alternatively, a gag can be adopted as a viable solution. The latter is what his TikToker named Mattiegascar (@mattymendy) did while traveling. Matty documented her travel “hack” on a viral TikTok, which has garnered more than 188,000 views as of Saturday. While many found his enthusiasm for the joke funny, others said he tried the joke…
Editor's note: This is the first of a monthly column on travel and tourism, providing news and information about destinations near you here and abroad.2024 is expected to be a great year for international travel. And what exactly are the most popular destinations for Pennsylvanians this year? You guessed it, Italy.Thousands of Pennsylvanians are researching vacation destinations online in the coming months, at least according to travel research company Places to Travel. And Italy has emerged as this year's top destination. While many Pennsylvanians take package tours to Rome, Venice, and Florence, intrepid travelers go solo and explore Italy at…
In a 1982 essay, Annie Dillard wrote, “Seeing a partial solar eclipse has the same connection to a total solar eclipse as kissing a man has to marriage.” She describes the strange spirituality of wholeness she witnessed on the mountainside of central Washington. That's amazing! And I understand her analogy. You can't know how wonderful and strange some things in life are until you experience them. One astronomer put Dillard's point in more scientific terms to a reporter for the Montreal Gazette: You are very far from there. ” The astronomer personally traveled to see her 10 solar eclipses around…
It's that time of year again! After a month of fasting, Muslims will celebrate Eid al-Fitr on April 10 with much fanfare and excitement. With millions of people traveling to celebrate with friends and family, the best way to ensure a stress-free vacation is to plan ahead and shop around for the best deals. It is important. Usually, many of us go home for this fun day (called “Mudik” in Indonesian). So, are you one of those who are also making travel arrangements for this Eid? Traveling during the holidays increases traffic at railway stations, airports, etc. Traveling during Eid…
BEND, Ore. — My family went to Blockbuster every Friday. As we walked to the store on 19th Street and 1st Avenue in Manhattan, we wandered the DVD aisle, negotiating what to rent for our weekly pizza-making and movie-watching routine, and I sweet-talked myself. Boxes of Nerd's Rope and Watermelon Sour Patch Kids were the ones I tried to get into the store.We reread countless discs until our parents signed us up for Netflix's DVD service. Our local store closed in 2010, the year Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy protection, and less than a decade later, nearly all of Blockbuster's 9,000…
It's no secret that flying can be stressful, but for many, it's the most convenient and fastest way to get from point A to point B (for us, of course, point B was Orlando International (often at an airport). orlando airport From dealing with travel delays to cancellations and lost luggage, there are many things that can go wrong. but, A DFB team member recently had a nightmare on a trip.And I wanted to share this story in case you have to deal with something similar. This happened last year at the Detroit airport. Rain overnight caused some roads and…
Influencer Lee Abbamonte, 45, doesn't have to, because she's crisscrossed all 50 states.This traveler recently posted a list of his favorite states ranked from best to worst. The top five wasn't all that surprising, but it did include some upsets you should know about. There are so many states and so little time.No need to worry, weary traveler. You don't have to, because influencer Lee Abbamonte traverses all 50 of his locations.In an Instagram post, the 45-year-old laid out the parcels in order of priority so he knew where to go first.This ranking shows that both the West Coast and…
Heavy snow is expected to make travel “very difficult or impossible” and winter storm warnings are in effect for certain areas in five states: Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota and Wyoming. .The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a winter storm warning for the Pryor Mountains and northern Bighorn Mountains in Montana and Wyoming, and is expected to remain under a winter storm warning until 6:00 PM MDT on Monday. Heavy snow totals of 1 to 3 feet and wind gusts as high as 60 mph are expected in these areas.The NWS warned that travel on Highway 14 through Burgess…
You have to submit it to the Transportation Safety Board (motto: “Jelly is a liquid too!”). Only the TSA would think this after investigating the dystopian hellscape of self-checkout supermarkets. We should try that at airports so passengers can do their own security scans!” Sorry, but eliminating terrorists at airports requires human intervention, no matter how painful it is for all of us. This is like having to wait for the bag boy to confirm “oh, you're old” to buy booze, or removing the charge for artichokes when you meant to press an avocado. It's not the same. Because artichokes…
Written by Brian Major Last updated: Saturday, April 6, 2024, 5:00 a.m. ET The World Travel and Tourism Council's (WTTC) 2024 Economic Impact Research (EIR) charts the long-term growth of leisure travel, cementing the industry's position as a major global economic driver.”It's safe to say that travel is not only back, it's booming, and that's what we're seeing on a global level,” said Julia Simpson, president and CEO of WTTC. ” he said. “It is worth noting that we expect travel and tourism to reach record highs in 2024,” Robinson said. In a study produced in collaboration with Oxford Economics,…