A few weeks ago, we introduced a new magazine feature called “Ask a Park Ranger” where we track down the best advice from the experts about our national parks . We’ll be featuring the results in a column in the magazine and here on our blog. Here’s our first… Read More

Singapore’s Changi Airport just recently opened a 40 foot twisty slide in its Terminal 3. Passengers who spend at least $22 in the airport shops will receive tokens for two rides down the slide. This is the latest addition to the airport, which also features a butterfly garden and… Read More

By Patty Hodapp Deputy Editor *** I had no idea life under the wavy ocean-surface was so fascinating until I visited the Florida Keys Eco-Discovery Center. For example, the center is home to a special, small square aquarium tank that houses a very dangerous venomous marine creature called the… Read More

This weekend I took advantage of a free Zozi deal I blogged about last week and tried out stand up paddleboarding for the first time. After driving about an hour southeast of Washington, D.C., to YK Kiteboarding and Stand Up Paddleboarding in Maryland’s Chesapeake Beach , I got my… Read More

The Boston Public Library has just opened an exhibit of hundreds of postcards depicting the city in the early 20th Century. It’s a companion to their popular exhibit of vintage travel posters which opened earlier this year. Both are on display at the Central Library at Copley Square. [… Read More

Travelers who missed being in New Orleans to observe the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina will have the opportunity to discover what really happened during the storm beginning this October 26, when the Louisiana State Museum opens an exhibit devoted to the hurricane and the wild, wet weather that… Read More

by Nancy Yeomans LG Air Travel News Editor Look up in the sky! It’s a bird….it’s a plane! No….it’s your weekly air travel news! Here’s what’s happening in the world of aviation, from the ground up. Not Just For Flying Anymore Amsterdam’s new and improved Schiphol Airport has opened… Read More

The expat drinking scene of journalists and diplomats in Afghanistan’s capital is the height of disrespectful colonialism “Kabul is the new Beirut.” This frivolous drivel fell from the mouth of a journalist in Afghanistan. She was effervescent with excitement about the prospect of Kabul’s expatriate bars being even more… Read More

Today’s guest post is by Matt Kepnes from NomadicMatt.com . It’s the question of my life… how to balance living life– seeing a city, taking photos for fun, spending time with friends and the distractions of being connected 24/7. I don’t think any of us have it figured out,… Read More

Last October, I took a river trip into Peru’s Pacaya Samiria National Preserve aboard the