When put “in charge” of a few hundred passengers, flight attendants wind up getting a lot of questions. And because their “audience” is different from flight to flight, they tend…
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With more and more people traveling, airport queues have become pretty crazy. Paid options in the U.S., such as TSAPreck and CLEAR, help. But if you don’t have either of…
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Happy June, y’all! June is a big month in the U.S. calendar. You’ve got D Day, Flag Day, Father’s Day, Juneteenth, and Summer Solstice. It’s also, of course, LGBTQ Pride…
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After the pandemic had been around for a while and people were juuuuust starting to fly again, most passengers, understandably, didn’t want to sit directly next to someone they didn’t…
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Hurricane season in the Atlantic runs each year from June 1 through November 30. That means if you decide to visit the outer edges of the southern U.S. quadrant (and…
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Every country has its own way of doing things. They have different things for tourists to see. They have their own food specialties. They may even speak their own language,…
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I’ve always been a fan of museums that celebrated things I was familiar with. Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, in Frankfurt, was a great find, with its nods to films from…
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Being on a plane usually means being crammed in with a few hundred other people, often for hours at a time. Things can go south fast. Not everyone has the…
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Exit rows have always been “special” to flyers. After all, you get extra legroom! Of course, you have to make yourself available to help in the event of an emergency…
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If you’ve ever been on a cruise, at a resort or even at a hotel, you know what it’s like. You get to the pool, beach, wherever, at a “comfortable”…