Phones in flight? Charge $100 a minute
With the FAA considering a proposal to allow cell phone calls during flights above 10,000 feet, it might be again time to ask ourselves one question: How bad can it be to take the bus? Or the train?...
View ArticleWorld’s 10 Best Ethical Destinations 2014
Where travelers “want” to go is, more often than not, based on an emotional, romantic notion. They heard about that place in a bar, or saw a poster, or saw Anthony Bourdain go there, or saw it on one...
View ArticleSochi’s whiny Western journalists need to travel more
Greek archaeologists, apparently, have unearthed new artifacts that prove that in the city of Olympia, Greece, during the first Olympic games in 776 BC, there was a shortage of 600-thread-count sheets,...
View ArticleWhy is airline food bad? It’s a plane, Einstein
Exhaustive study and testing finally has answered a question that has plagued humankind since the Wright Brothers started brown-bagging it: Why is airline food so bad? According to a culinary expert...
View ArticleCarry-on Hall of Shame
We asked for your pictures of the monster “carry-on” luggage and industrial crates being passed off as “personal items” and you delivered. Here are the photos hashtagged #carryonshame that we believe...
View ArticleAirlines still need shaming over carry-ons
If we learned nothing else from going to the airport in 2014 it’s that, more often than not, U.S. airlines don’t seem to care if you bring more than one grossly oversized suitcase as carry-on luggage,...
View ArticleThe Finest Museums in The World vs. Nature
Chicago’s Museums — Masterpiece Playgrounds Born and raised in Chicago, I felt I was a lucky child. Some of the greatest museums were on school field trip agendas. Plus, I fondly recall many outings...
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