Travel

Flightradar24.com began as a hobby for 2 Swedish aviation experts who wanted to build ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Service-Broadcast) network receivers in Northern and Central Europe. That was in 2006. The …

Every country, of course, has its own rules that need to be followed. You can’t enter these countries if you’ve had a DUI. You’ll be fined if you try to …

As residents of Central Florida, we’re acutely aware of summer weather patterns. While the mornings can be pleasant, it isn’t long before the heat and humidity build, eventually resulting in …

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 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. …