Feeling the urge to embark on a socially distanced road trip or book a staycation closer to home this spring? You’re not alone. According to a recent study by vacation rental search engine HomeToGo, bookings are up by 46% compared to last year, with travelers opting to stay within 257 miles of home. Hotels and
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We teamed up with GuruShots to find the best travel photos in the world. Here they are. We teamed up with GuruShots, the world’s favorite photo game, to run a travel photo contest. Almost 100k photos were submitted to the challenge, and we are pleased to feature the top 500 travel photos from around the
How one pie shop is fighting to survive the pandemic. When Sarah Joe Montana Chavez first visited Pie Town, New Mexico, on family vacations, three pie restaurants were open for business in the small high-desert town. The town’s love of pie was signified by the summertime Pie Town Pie Festival. Pie Town’s appeal was was
A book for every state and what it can teach us about travel. As soon as coronavirus arrived in New York City last winter, my brain became a tangle of anxious thoughts, pounding down on my already overtaxed amygdala. I had one salvation: a three-by-two map of America hanging in my living room. While most
Patrick Smith/Getty Images In a field in Croaker, Virginia, outside historic Williamsburg, sits an apocalyptic site: the large, decaying busts of 42 presidents. From George Washington to George W Bush, each bust is 18-20 feet high, weigh between 11,000-20,000 pounds and sit in varying states of decay. The heads were moved to the field after the
©Sean Locke Photography/Shutterstock While Covid-19 has put 2021 Mardi Gras on hold, there’s a way to tastefully and safely celebrate it at home. It’s by ordering a king cake by mail. There are bakeries across the American South that ship their creations of this oval-shaped and tri-hued dessert across most of the U.S. Often many
it a great time to escape with your beloved to a remote cabin in the woods or try a romantic staycation closer to home. As the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, hotels and destinations around the U.S. have been doing their best to reopen safely, initiating strict health and safety protocols and updates like contactless check-in
Montana offers couples the perfect place to turn up the romance and disconnect from the noise this February in a safe and snowy setting. Imagine being snuggled up in a cozy cabin somewhere far away from reality. The fire is glowing as snow-capped mountains sit in the background. Hiking trails and ski slopes abound. This
These great parks have a lottery system. Here’s how to enter. Many of us may be feeling the itch to travel after staying home for almost a year as we continue living through a pandemic. When it is safe to travel again, it’s possible that our travel priorities have shifted. Maybe you prefer to spend
Andreykr/Dreamstime Washington, D.C.’s moody and magnificent Lincoln Memorial is a beautiful work of art and a historical touchstone. A new mask mandate, negative COVID tests and a lifted travel ban. Within his first few days as the 46th President of the United States of America, Joe Biden has reversed the Islamophobic travel ban and implemented
Feeling the winter blues? Here are 24 cheap, safe getaways. While many are staying home because of the pandemic, U.S. hotels and destinations have continued to carefully reopen, with contactless check-in and other cleanliness and hygiene protocols in place to help keep visitors and employees safe. A recent study by vacation rental search engine HomeToGo
©SeanPavonePhoto/Getty Images The Appalachian Trail Conservancy is asking hikers to wait until 2022. Hikers hoping to spend 2021 hiking the Appalachian Trail are being asked to postpone their trips until 2022 by the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, citing concerns over the spread of COVID-19. Health officials say that the COVID-19 risk comes not from the hike itself,
With the COVID-19 vaccine deploying, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. How can travelers expect to be able to travel again? With the COVID-19 vaccine rolling out across the world, people are starting to think about booking vacations again. But even with light appearing at the end of the tunnel, should
©raclro/Getty Images Crowd of people atop a ski mountain at Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Americans are notorious for wasting millions of vacation days! Use your vacation days! Raise your hand if you lost or rolled over PTO days in 2020. Even in non-pandemic years, Americans are notorious for wasting millions of vacation days annually. In 2020,
These cheap private islands across the USA can be rented for less than the cost of a hotel (and make for a way better vacation story). Hotels? Too full of other guests. Vacation rentals? Too close to other people. A private island? Just right. Monmouth, Maine A classic A-frame house, hammock, rope swing, and canoe
The pandemic may have put a pause to many a vacation, but there’s still a creative way to get your travel fix. All it takes is an internet connection. Enter the live stream. These videos provide a real time glimpse into a destination. And while they may not be a perfect cure for wanderlust, they
For travel to truly cure bias, you must have an open mind © drferry / Getty Images It holds true that travel dusts the cobwebs off locked imaginations, but a willingness to unlock them in the first place is key. As a young girl traveling throughout Africa, I was exposed to the many wonders of
As global citizens and adventurers here is some simple advice on how every person, regardless of race, can be a Black ally during their travels. The Black human experience has been brought to the forefront of most people’s minds because of recent weeks’ Black Lives Matter rallies. The movement has spread like wildfire from its
On Tuesday, the CDC announced a new requirement that anyone flying to the US must show a negative COVID-19 test before being allowed entry to the United States. The order takes effect in two weeks, on January 26, 2021. It applies to US citizens as well as foreign travelers. The order requires arriving air passengers
Orange County California officials have announced that Disneyland Resort in Anaheim will be converted into a Point-of-Dispersing site for COVID-19 vaccines. “The Disneyland Resort, the largest employer in the heart of Orange County, has stepped up to host the county’s first Super POD site – undertaking a monumental task in our vaccination distribution process,” said