Marin Open Studios, an organization of artists in Marin County, California, across the Golden Gate from San Francisco, offers free self-guided studio visits the first 2 weekend in May. Find more information and maps here .
Megabus is expanding its Florida coverage with routes that connect Miami, Tallahassee and Tampa to Orlando. The low-cost bus carrier already has Orlando routes to Gainesville, Jacksonville and Atlanta. Fare on the new routes will be $1+$1.50...
Years of advice on when to buy (this day is when the bargains are, that many days ahead is best, shop late at night, etc.) have now been studied and tested by CheapAir.com and the answer is...Maybe. Or maybe it's like the Billy Joel lyrics: You may be...
One of the favorite travel destinations in south-central Tennessee is the Jack Daniel’s distillery situated in the small town of Lynchburg. It’s about an hour and a half drive south of Nashville and an excellent...
Hagia Sophia was the Cathedral of Constantinople (now Istanbul) when it was built in the year 537 AD. In 1453 it was changed from being a Church to a Mosque. Today this building is a Museum and worship is strictly prohibited. Turkey is where the West...
Air Canada has become the first "overseas" carrier to join TSA's PreCheck program that allows program members to move through airport security faster, and with less unpacking and undressing. TSA says more carriers will soon follow. For reasons that...
The owner’s house, Empire Cottage, looks English for a reason. William Bourn, Jr. was a student at Cambridge University when his father, San Francisco businessman William Bourne, Sr. died in 1879 and 22 year old William, Jr. was...
Beavertail State Park in Rhode Island is in the town of Jamestown. It sits on the southern tip of an island in the Narragansett Bay. The first light house here was built in 1749. This current light house was built in 1898.
Today Gumbo's taking a long walk. A large and spacious green place with lots to see and do, when he came across this interesting building and pond. What's that building, and where did Gumbo find it? THE...
In the first quarter of 2014, 18 million international passengers transited through Dubai, compared with 16.1 million at Heathrow (second on the list). This makes Dubai the busiest airport for international travelers in the world, largely...
GoGo has sewn up most of the installed inflight WiFi in the U.S. and has aims on the rest of the world, but AT&T Wireless has now announced it will go into the market next year with a different technology. GoGo uses plane-based antennas to communicate with satellites for WiFi service; AT&T, which owns a dense ground-based cellphone network, plans to use ground-based antennas and to use 4G LTE rather than WiFi. DETAILS from Bloomberg News. TG note : AT&T...
Denver-based Frontier Airlines, whose goal is to become an "ultra low-cost" carrier, has dropped its fares by about 12% (which works out to about 18% below Southwest on competing routes). The fare cuts come with a big "but" but with no...
"Walking markets" have become an important feature of life in the three main islands in the Gulf of Thailand - Koh Tao, Koh Samui and Koh Phangan. Usually held in the early evenings, they come alive is a bustle of colours, music, chatter and smells.
While it's famous for its swallows (which sadly hardly return to the mission at all anymore, rather building their nests on newer buildings in the area), there's a lot of things to see and enjoy at Mission San Juan Capistrano. Besides the ruins...
There have been more than a few tales and ships condemned to sail on forever, or never reach home—Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner, the Flying Dutchman, Edward Everett Hale’s “Man Without a Country”—but this odd...