Some hotels seem instantly comfortable, with a little flair, and others are hilariously retro, like the Garland in North Hollywood, Calif., named after Beverly Garland, a 1960s actress who wanted to create a hideaway for friends and family. Whimsical and bizarre, it has a fun lobby bar that serves the Beverly Garland martini. I loved…
Forecasters are predicting record-high daily temperatures in New York City and other parts of the Northeast on Sunday as a nationwide scorching was expected to peak in many places around the United States. New York City — where officials confirmed a heat-related death on Saturday — could see near-record high temperatures with heat indexes surpassing…
DULLES, Va. — As a throng of travelers at Dulles International Airport elbowed their way to the baggage carousel on a recent sweltering afternoon, a federal officer zeroed in on a tired woman, sniffed her suitcases and sat down. Hair-E, a six-year veteran at Dulles and a honey-colored beagle, glanced knowingly at his human handler,…
Elyse Welles was traveling from Athens to Newark this spring when it finally happened: She was pulled aside for an additional security screening at her gate. After some time searching through Ms. Welles’s backpack, the agent eventually grabbed a bullet-shaped vibrator from the bag and brandished it in the air. “Is this an e-cigarette?” the…
Lately, it seems like the news headlines from San Francisco have been negative, from the city’s homelessness crisis and highly publicized recall elections to the area’s astronomical cost-of-living and worsening fire seasons. But San Francisco is still San Francisco. The fog still rolls in from the Pacific to blanket the city’s jumbled hills, the sunset…
Anguilla, a tiny British overseas territory in the eastern Caribbean Sea, is preparing to ease its pandemic-related travel restrictions, following the lead of dozens of countries that have dropped testing and vaccination requirements, anxious to rebuild tourism and their economies. This month, the British Virgin Islands, Belize and Australia also eased requirements for visitors. And…
One less-utilized access point is the east entrance, 25 miles west of Cameron, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation. Both entrances, divided by 23 scenic miles along the canyon’s rim, lead to the same spot at the Grand Canyon Visitor Center. “Check the wait times online,” Mr. Mohn said. “But the biggest bottleneck is going to…
An Elegant Four-Bedroom Home in Northern Italy $1.51 MILLION (1.5 MILLION EUROS) This four-bedroom, six-bathroom villa sits on an embankment in Brunate, a village in northern Italy perched above the city of Como and its famed lake. Built in 1908 in the Italian “Liberty” style, a variant of Art Nouveau, the property has been owned…
I woke up around 5 a.m. to a low but incessant rumbling. Faint hints of daylight had appeared over my fellow passengers’ heads, most of which were still bent in rest. Some people yawned; others stared intently out the window at the valley. I had been aboard the train for about 40 hours, and there…
She felt sympathy for ground-staff workers, she said, but the experience had only confirmed to her that she and her husband had made the right choice to avoid traveling this summer. “Maybe next year,” she said. “Definitely not this year.” Past the security lines, which took about an hour at midday on Wednesday, the crowds…