Travel

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 …

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 …

The air travel world has been living with the “3-1-1 liquids rule” (or its country-specific equivalent) for a long time now. In the United States, the TSA says you’re only …

Think about this scenario: a married couple arrives at the airport. One of them has TSA PreCheck, the other doesn’t. If they’re lucky, the one who hasn’t paid for PreCheck …

Travel constipation. If you have it, you know. You may be as regular as the day is long when you’re at home, but the second you go out of town …

Global Entry is something of an #IYKYK (if you know, you know) thing. If you have it and are returning to the US from an overseas flight, you know how …

As the TSA ups its digital game, it’s been slowly increasing the number of states whose residents can use mobile drivers licenses (mDL) at checkpoints with digital ID readers. Louisiana …