Travel

We have it pretty good here in the United States. Because of the way our federal laws are set up, we’re allowed to wear almost whatever we’d like, whenever we’d …

When we travel overseas, we have a strong preference for train travel over short-distance flights. This was the case when we journeyed from Salzburg, Austria, to Munich and then to …

For almost 50 years now, federal law has decreed that if someone wins more than $1200 while playing slot machines or video poker in a U.S. state or in its …

In December 2021, President Biden signed an executive order on Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery to Rebuild Trust in Government. I don’t know how much it would actually …

When venturing abroad, it’s essential to have some of the local currency on hand. But did you know that using your ATM card outside the US can result in extra …

When you’re on a plane, the in-flight entertainment (well, if there is any…) could have many options. Movies, TV shows, games, music channels…lots of stuff to keep you occupied. Sometimes …

Full disclosure: save for one flight in Asia (one where the overheads were positioned for a country whose residents tended to be on the short side), I have never put …

When you learn another language, you tend to learn conversational words and sentences. Since they require a decent understanding of the language in question, idioms and multi-word expressions come later. …

It’s been reported that the electronic scanners at airports’ TSA security checkpoints are having difficult with select driver’s licenses of, now, a third state. This time it’s not the TSA’s …

For years, I was proud of the fact that I didn’t have any hotel status and wasn’t beholden to any limits when picking out hotels. At the time, I searched …