ON THE KAMENG RIVER, India — The e-mail from an old friend who runs a whitewater rafting company was too enticing to resist: We’re running a new river in India’s remote east, he said. Join us. It sounded like a rush. It turned out to be much more. In six days, we covered 72 miles of the Kameng River and shot some 100 rapids.
NEW YORK -- Fewer people are expected to fly this holiday season, but travelers shouldn't expect a full reprieve from the horrid flight delays of Thanksgivings past, especially if they need to land anywhere near New York City.
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Discount carrier AirTran Airways, a unit of AirTran Holdings Inc., said Friday that it will offer double reward credits to all of its frequent flier club members when they travel between Milwaukee and any AirTran destination through Feb. 10.
NEW YORK -- JetBlue is running a one-day sale on international and domestic flights with fares between $29 and $129 each way.
You betcha we’re going to see plenty of Sarah Palin this week as she makes the media rounds touting her new memoir, Going Rogue. In case the gal from Wasilla inspires you to take a trip to the 49th state, here are a few Alaskan adventures to check out.
Key West has a balmy climate; even in winter, short sleeves are the norm. But when Ernest Hemingway and his wife, Pauline, bought the house here that they called home for most of the 1930s, Pauline did a funny thing: She replaced the ceiling fans with heat-generating chandeliers. She may have been taking a cue from the Connecticut-born businessman who built the house in 1871 — with multiple fireplaces.
The new Google Maps Navigation app, currently only available on the Verizon Droid, is a good first step that generally works well. It won't push the top navigation efforts off the scene, but it will push them to get better.
“Be careful of the wild boar.” This sage advice came from the Italian man driving me from Rome’s airport to the new Castel Monastero hotel in rural Tuscany, where wild boar are known to roam the rolling hills. Weighing as much as 300 pounds, a wild boar’s razor-sharp tusks can slice and dice like a $19.99 infomercial knife set. Even so, a wild boar didn’t seem as intimidating as the person I was about to meet: chef Gordon Ramsay.
This month, I'm quitting my job and heading out on one of the last true adventures left on Earth: Driving around the world. I'll spend about a year on the road, starting and finishing in New York. When I can't drive, I'll ship the car by boat, then fly to the next stop.
NEW YORK -- This month's issue of National Geographic Adventure magazine is recommending 11 ski destinations from Oregon to Maine. They are:
Last spring, thousands of travelers canceled trips to Mexico after a swine flu outbreak there emptied beaches and resorts. Staying home won't protect you from swine flu now: At least 46 states have reported widespread flu activity.
These Web sites are helpful in planning a family trip:
When it comes to weirdness, don’t mess with Texas. In a new list of the country’s wackiest attractions, the Looney Star State lays claim to four of the 10 oddities. “When you take a trip, these might not be the first places that come to mind,” said TripAdvisor spokesperson Brooke Ferencsik. “But they’re really unique and fun things for travelers to see.”
DALLAS (AP) — If you plan to travel around the upcoming holidays, prepare to pay a little more — again.
The Midwest may not have any ski runs with 3,000-foot vertical descents, like they have out West. And nearby resorts don’t draw the celebrities like Aspen, Vail and Telluride do. We’ll never host a Winter Olympics. But just because we don’t have the biggest hills or the flashiest resorts, that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of good locales within a reasonable drive from Chicago where we can learn to carve turns, work on our snowboarding technique in edgy terrain parks.
The world's largest cruise liner began its maiden voyage to Florida on Friday, gliding out from a shipyard in Finland with an amphitheater, basketball courts and an ice rink on board.
The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colo., is said to be one of the most haunted hotels in the country. Stephen King spent a single spooky night there in the '70s, and it became the basis for his horror classic The Shining. Early next month, two suburban women are headed there to search for restless spirits.
One of the spookiest places I've ever encountered wasn't a haunted house, and it wasn't on Halloween.
Even if you don't believe in ghosts, walking through a graveyard can be a little chilling in autumn as the trees shed their leaves, flowers wither away and light fades in the late afternoon.
Collect the most trees in an online treasure hunt and you could win a Festival of Trees weekend getaway, including overnight accommodations in the Quad Cities and admission to the Festival of Trees. Some 60 trees will be hidden on the Quad Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau and Quad City Arts' Web sites. You can collect them until noon Nov. 13. The Festival of Trees (Nov. 20-27) features hundreds of holiday trees and decorations. To start searching, go to visitquadcities.com/holiday.
Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel is accepting applications through Dec. 1 for its artist-in-residence program. Known for its expansive Victorian art collection, the hotel has a working art studio and gallery. The lucky artist will lead tours, interact with guests and basically serve as ambassador for the hotel's artistic tradition. Find out more and get an application at thepfisterhotel.com.
A funny thing happened on the way to Sedona in Arizona's Red Rock country. Thirty minutes out, our GPS screen suddenly stopped computing. It faded to black for a minute before blinking to life as if nothing had happened. "Could be an electrical connection," said Steve, looking puzzled. "Not that it matters. We know where we are, even if it doesn't."
A Seattle woman tweets from an airport that JetBlue's birthday present to her was forgetting to put her wheelchair on her flight.
