Jul 25th, 2010 at 12:00PM: Hey, Arlington, Virginia residents, why are you spending so much on travel? Do you really want to get out that badly? According to a report by Bundle.com, the folks who live in Arlington spent twice the national average on travel last year: a whopping $3,534 per household. Nationwide, the norm came in at $1,571 for 2009. Meanwhile, Detroit residents spent a meager $1,158 per household on travel ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Top five cities for travel spending ... and the bottom of the barrel, too
Jul 25th, 2010 at 12:00PM: Hey, Arlington, Virginia residents, why are you spending so much on travel? Do you really want to get out that badly? According to a report by Bundle.com, the folks who live in Arlington spent twice the national average on travel last year: a whopping $3,534 per household. Nationwide, the norm came in at $1,571 for 2009. Meanwhile, Detroit residents spent a meager $1,158 per household on travel ...Lazy rivers: The best U.S. float trips
Jun 5th, 2010 at 10:00AM: Paddling through serene wilderness or idyllic farmland is a relaxing way to spend time with friends and family, or to reconnect with yourself. Float trips are ideal for those who don't wish to brave the uncertainty of rapids and like to stay close to home.
The U.S. has millions of miles of flowing water -why not float along a few? In the early days of settlement, towns sprang up on the shores ...Five great tank museums
Jan 12th, 2010 at 12:00PM: OK, I'll admit it, inside I'm still twelve years old. I love big lumbering metal monsters that crash through brick walls and blast away with cannons and machine guns. Tanks rock. So with no further justification, here are five of the best tank museums in the world. The Tank Museum, Bovington, United Kingdom The British invented the tank in an attempt to break the deadlock of trench warfare during ...Winter travel time: East Coast gets buried, disrupts travel
Dec 20th, 2009 at 8:00AM:
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A monstrous storm ran up the East Coast yesterday, burying parts of the country in more than a foot of snow and making life a living hell for road-trippers and airline passengers. As of last night, five deaths were reportedly caused by the storm. Fourteen inches fell on Reagan National Airport, setting a single-day ...
Bourbon, beer, wine, and equines in Kentucky's Bluegrass region
Nov 17th, 2009 at 12:00PM:
My desire to take advantage of flight deals and see new places often takes me to destinations I might not have otherwise considered. An $89 round trip flight from Chicago to Louisville, for example, is how I ended up discovering that there's a lot more to Kentucky's Bluegrass region than horses.
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The Louisville airport is larger than Lexington and receives more daily flights, ...Photo of the Day (10.31.09)
Oct 31st, 2009 at 5:00PM:
Believe it or not, our Photo of the Day was taken in Kentucky -- at Mammoth Caves, to be exact. As Gadling photographer Peter Rivera explains, "A blast of arctic air flows up from the blackness. you go down concrete steps, lower and lower until the sunny August trees are left behind..." Peter aptly named this photo "descending into the abyss," and for those of you intrepid travelers who are ...Fall foliage. . .with bourbon in Kentucky
Oct 5th, 2009 at 12:00PM:
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Taking an autumn drive to see the leaves change colors is a time-honored tradition in the north and east of the country. While Kentucky might not be the first place you think of as a leaf-peeping destination, the state is full of scenic byways and rolling countryside to be ...Free tours of Mammoth Cave this Saturday
Sep 22nd, 2009 at 12:30PM: In honor of National Public Lands Day, the Park Service has announced that it is offering free tours of Mammoth Cave this Saturday, September 26th. Located in central Kentucky, Mammoth Cave is part of the largest cave system in the world, All told, there are more than 365 miles of twisting passageways that make up the system, with multiple tours available that range in length anywhere from one to ...Are you paying for an airstrip of convenience?
Sep 18th, 2009 at 1:00PM: Taxpayers are paying to subsidize several airports around the country. Many don't service commercial passengers and do very little to add to the communities in which they reside. Take Williamsburg-Whitley County Airport in Kentucky. It was built with $11 million in cash from the U.S. government and usually sees only a handful of flights a day take off or touch down – some days, the runway is ...Seven jobs that may soon disappear: Travel to where they are while you can
Sep 1st, 2009 at 12:30PM: With Labor Day approaching, as we think of work, consider the culturally significant jobs in the world that may not be around in the future. Here is a look at seven that are hallmarks of particular regions.
First up. Traditional Glass Blower. In one of the furnace rooms at Cam Fornace in Murano, Italy, a short water bus hop from Venice, is a black and white photo from the 1920s (or thereabouts). ...Think local for a low-cost wine-tasting trip
Aug 31st, 2009 at 12:00PM: When most people think of going on a wine-tasting trip, their thoughts tend to head west - to California, Washington, and Oregon. It's not surprising. From Napa Valley in California to Walla Walla in Washington, these states are some of the biggest producers of wine in the US. But if you don't live in one of these states, there's no need to venture far from home for a weekend of swirling and ...Photo of the Day (7-8-09)
Jul 8th, 2009 at 5:00PM:
Lady bugs and lightening bugs are the favorable bugs of summer, particularly if you're in the Midwest region of the U.S. Both are bugs that I associate with childhood Julys in Kentucky. I particularly like this shot by Lili Living because of the contrast of texture and colors between the lady bug and the blades of grass.
If you have any shots to share that hint at a place that evokes a memory ...Michael Jackson died and a flood of travel memories
Jun 25th, 2009 at 7:10PM: Wow! Michael Jackson is dead. Jackson is one of those people who is wrapped up with my traveling life. As a child living in Columbia, South Carolina where wisteria vines draped off trees in our front yard, "ABC" played from my radio, the one I bought when we lived in State College, Pennsylvania.
Moving began early for me, and Michael Jackson when he was part of the Jackson Five was one of my ...Travel song for spring: Morning Has Broken
Apr 12th, 2009 at 11:00AM: Back in November and December we ran a series Songs of Travel where we featured our favorite travel songs. This morning with spring flowers blooming in a variety of places, even along I-70 where I saw dozens of daffodils in their yellow splendor just yesterday, and my mother is talking about the redbud trees blooming throughout the mountains of southeastern Kentucky, I'm reminded of Cat Steven's ...
Lincoln's boyhood home is well worth the trip
Feb 12th, 2009 at 10:00AM: Because Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial in Indiana near the Kentucky border is not on a main highway, it's not crowded. At least it wasn't crowded the sunny Sunday afternoon in August when we swung into the parking lot after winding our way along the shady road that led there from Indiana Highway 162.
I was surprised by the size of the park's visitor's center. It's scope is impressive--massive ...Other funny names of places: How about Intercourse?
Jan 24th, 2009 at 10:00AM: It's great to have belly laughs. The article in the New York Times that Jeremy wrote about yesterday had me chortling out loud and reminded me about why Monty Python is so darned funny.
I thought Intercourse, Pennsylvania was bad, but the list of funny names in England was impressive. For some reason, Titty Ho caught me the most.
As I was reading the NY Times article, I kept thinking of Life of ...Big Bone Lick State Park
Nov 3rd, 2008 at 3:00PM: Who names these parks? There's me, road tripping through Indiana, minding my own business, when bam! I'm at some park called Big Bone Lick. Technically located in Kentucky, Big Bone Lick calls itself "the birthplace of American paleontology." I didn't know American paleontology was into that! Apparently, they found pleistocene megafauna fossils there. Yeah, I don't know what that means either, but ...Photo of the Day (10-15-08)
Oct 15th, 2008 at 3:00PM:
There's a novel by American author James Still titled River of Earth. This photo by miggiddymatt reminds me of Still's writing.
Still, who died a few years ago when he was well into his 90s, was an adventurer and traveler who settled in the mountains near Hindman, Kentucky, a tiny town in the southeastern part of the state. He wrote about the Appalachians with an ear that perfectly captured ...Super secret 11 spices KFC recipe is being relocated
Sep 9th, 2008 at 5:00PM: In what can only described as part PR stunt, and part high value transport, the top secret recipe for KFC's original recipe is being temporarily relocated. The yellowed sheet of paper involved lists the 11 spices used in Colonel Sanders recipe, and is the same one still used today to create their signature fried chicken. The relocation was necessary because Yum Brands, the parent of KFC is ...Abe Lincoln and Civil War history buffs, head here
Jun 18th, 2008 at 12:00PM: One aspect I love about going someplace I haven't been before is coming upon a treasure I wasn't expecting. This was the case when I headed to Harrogate, Tennessee to the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival. My purpose was to hang out with writers who have an Appalachian bent.
What I didn't expect was the Abraham Lincoln Museum and Library. My word! In the gorgeous bowl created by the mountains, ...
