Travel

Remember the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark, where Indiana Jones discovers there’s a big snake in his seat? Indy lucked out – THAT snake was the pilot’s pet …

I remember when I was maybe 10 years old, my aunt, who lived in southern California at the time, came to visit us for a week or so. We picked …

If there’s one thing that’s never changed, it’s generation gaps. Different age groups naturally look at the world differently from those before and after them, and it shows in just …

Amsterdam has had a love-hate relationship with tourists for years. Like any tourist mecca, they love the money that tourists bring to their city. But Amsterdam is also a city …

My name is Sharon and I am an introvert. I enjoy being alone when Joe is at work. I prefer to write than talk. Being in a large group of …

In the past several years, many places around the world have begun charging what’s sometimes known as a “tourist tax.” It’s any revenue-generating measure targeted at tourists and is usually …

Despite their fame and fortune, most famous people, unless they were born with a silver spoon in their mouths, are just like you and me. Some “hit the big time” …

Traveling has felt different since the pandemic in 2020. After travel totally shut down, we slowly started to leave home. We started with short weekends and eventually took longer trips. …

My maiden name is (well, was) one that’s pronounced exactly as it’s spelled. But more people mispronounced it than said it correctly, usually because, believe it or not, they imagined …

We’ve had a Hertz reservation on hold for a couple of months. It was for a two-day rental from Newark, NJ and I booked through a Priceline link from Autoslash. …