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Saving Chekhov’s Yalta ‘White Dacha’ Home

How Can I Save on Transportation During a Round-the-World Trip?

Vagabonding traveler Rolf Potts answers your questions about travel

13 Great Travel Horror Movies

The Hollywood horror archives are filled with tales of bad trips. To celebrate Halloween, Eva Holland and Eli Ellison sift through the carnage to pick their favorites—and lose a little sleep doing so.

Matt Weiland: Through 50 States With 50 Writers

The coeditor of “State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America” talks to Frank Bures about the book, the WPA and how the United States hasn’t been “bulldozed for speed”

Love Herring in Sweden

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The Water Is Wide

Bronwen Dickey considers Tim Butcher’s “Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart,” which takes readers deep into the Congo

Vagrant Ruminations of a Compulsive Traveler

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Notes From an Unofficial Tourist Greeter

Summer is over, and so is Julia Ross‘ season as an ambassador to travelers in Washington, D.C.’s Woodley Park neighborhood. She’s happy to be off duty.

Airlines Will Never Charge $15 For This, Will They?

To use the bathroom.

Way things are going, the airlines are going to be cutting down on teh number of flights, and trying to pack in more passengers into a flight, so they could start charging for ‘standing’ flights, where you pay less, but don’t get a seat. :)

Geez, I hope they wouldn’t charge for that. But I wouldn’t be surprised if they did though. It reminds me of this article I read a week or so ago called Silent Sprint for Aviation and it pretty much sums up that cartoon. We are going to have a lot less flights and a lot less elbow room.

I’m seeing the following new fees coming in soon:

Enhanced seating comfort - $20 (you get a padded seat)
Assured boarding - $25 (you get a valid boarding pass)
Bathroom tokens - $1 each
Rental blankets - $10 each (this also means they’ll turn the temperature to 55 Fahrenheit)

Which one’s of these do you think they’ll do next?

A friend on an Air Canada flight from Toronto to San Francisco was unable to get a free blanket because, the cabin attendant said, the service was only available on international flights! Seriously!