Here are locations across the U.S. that make you feel like you’ve set foot in a European destination with no passport required. With much of Europe off limits amid the current pandemic, Americans will have to wait longer to travel to and throughout the continent. However, they can find resemblances to some European countries a
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Courtesy Marriott The Marriott in Kauai, Hawaii. From familiar hotel brands and B&Bs to wineries and corporate travel companies, here’s a look at some of the ways they’ve helped support small businesses and keep hope alive this year. All around the world, hotels and travel companies have been doing what they can to help communities
A look at what will trend in 2021. Pinterest recently released its seventh annual Pinterest Predicts report, providing a look into what people around the world have been searching for in 2020 and what it could mean for trends in travel, health and wellbeing, beauty, home décor, special events, parenting, fashion, food and beverage, finance
©ESB Professional/Shutterstock America’s Best Idea is welcoming a new park to the National Park system. New River Gorge National Park was designated as the United State’s 63rd National Park. America’s Best Idea is welcoming a new park to the National Park system. New River Gorge National Park was designated as the United State’s 63rd National Park.
We spoke with Dr. Kunjana Mavunda, M.D., a travel medicine specialist and pulmonologist at the International Travel Clinic, to find out how to be smart about flying during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Coronavirus cases are continuing to spike in the United States making it quite unappealing to fly as it’s impossible to socially distance on
©Vitalii Bashkatov/Shutterstock Jupiter and Saturn will align for the first time in 400 years on December 21. Stargazers who look to the sky on Monday night, December 21, will be rewarded with the Great Conjunction – the first time in 400 years that Saturn and Jupiter will be aligned in the night sky. The closeness
Get into the holiday spirit outdoors and admire holiday decorations and lights from a socially distanced walking path. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, though things may not feel as festive this year thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic. The CDC recently released special guidelines for holiday travel and gatherings and officially recommends staying
As the current pandemic is changing how we celebrate the 2020 holiday season, the tradition of seeing public holiday lights displays at night can now be done from the safety of your car. From readapted walking tours to first-time happenings or continuing events, here are holiday lights drive-throughs around the U.S. to take a ride-along.
©Leonard Zhukovsky/Shutterstock New York City residents can request to book a holiday sleepover at FAO Schwarz starting on December 15th at noon EST for the chance to make your kiddos’ holiday wishes come true. Airbnb is coming to the rescue for one very lucky New York City-based family to create a magical holiday season for
If you’re looking for a road trip that combines nightlife, laid back beaches, and a little Key Lime pie, the four hour drive from Miami to Key West is the perfect adventure. The Florida Keys are a chain of islands just south of Miami that stretch 125 miles, and the most ideal time to visit
Bus and train trips, flights, delays in airports and train stations, hostels without TV or much light; the list of situations where a traveler has time to kill is long. Vagabondish is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Read our disclosure. That’s right — travel is
©spreephoto.de/Getty Images A geomagnetic storm should allow the northern lights to be seen in the Northern United States. The Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has put out a geomagnetic storm watch for December 9-11, 2020. The storm should make the Northern Lights viewable across a large swath of the Northern United States. The forecast is the
Over ten years ago, I quit a great job to live and travel abroad. People told me I was crazy, and a few tried to persuade me not to do it. Vagabondish is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Read our disclosure. Given that a decade
Everyone told us we were crazy to try to travel with a cat in our tiny, 17′ Casita travel trailer. Dogs? Dogs are easy. But, cats are a different animal altogether — literally. (There’s a reason I put together an entire guide to traveling with a cat in a car long-distance.) Vagabondish is reader-supported. When
Wise travelers know to “get their jabs” before setting sail to some far off place. But why? What exactly are these diseases we’re all getting inoculated against? Will they lead to a grim and grisly death or just a good story to tell the grandkids? Vagabondish is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our
Long-haul flights are the worst. If you’re on a 10-hour flight, cramped up with legroom that even a dog couldn’t fit in, food that is only fit for a prison cafeteria, in seats that I can only imagine are filled with more germs than a toilet, you’re in for one hell of a ride (literally).
“Dogs have owners; cats have employees.” So goes the conventional wisdom. Vagabondish is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Read our disclosure. So, when we decided to take our “boss”, Lizzi, on a three-month road trip of the U.S. East Coast, people told us we were
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It was 4:48 a.m. 4:49 … I awoke to a pattern of lights gliding across my bedroom ceiling. A pale, yellow apparition in the shape of my window that twisted in upon itself before vanishing. Vagabondish is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Read our disclosure.
I overnight in up to 20 different hotel rooms each month. So I’ve become something of an expert in “hotel stay-ology”. (That’s a real degree. University of Phoenix confirmed it.) Vagabondish is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Read our disclosure. According to a prominent study