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With the COVID-19 vaccine deploying, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. How can travelers expect to be able to travel again? With the COVID-19 vaccine rolling out across the world, people are starting to think about booking vacations again. But even with light appearing at the end of the tunnel, should

©raclro/Getty Images Crowd of people atop a ski mountain at Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Americans are notorious for wasting millions of vacation days! Use your vacation days! Raise your hand if you lost or rolled over PTO days in 2020. Even in non-pandemic years, Americans are notorious for wasting millions of vacation days annually. In 2020,

©SeanPavonePhoto/Getty Images The Appalachian Trail Conservancy is asking hikers to wait until 2022. Hikers hoping to spend 2021 hiking the Appalachian Trail are being asked to postpone their trips until 2022 by the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, citing concerns over the spread of COVID-19. Health officials say that the COVID-19 risk comes not from the hike itself,

Feeling the winter blues? Here are 24 cheap, safe getaways. While many are staying home because of the pandemic, U.S. hotels and destinations have continued to carefully reopen, with contactless check-in and other cleanliness and hygiene protocols in place to help keep visitors and employees safe. A recent study by vacation rental search engine HomeToGo

Andreykr/Dreamstime Washington, D.C.’s moody and magnificent Lincoln Memorial is a beautiful work of art and a historical touchstone. A new mask mandate, negative COVID tests and a lifted travel ban. Within his first few days as the 46th President of the United States of America, Joe Biden has reversed the Islamophobic travel ban and implemented

These great parks have a lottery system. Here’s how to enter. Many of us may be feeling the itch to travel after staying home for almost a year as we continue living through a pandemic. When it is safe to travel again, it’s possible that our travel priorities have shifted. Maybe you prefer to spend

Montana offers couples the perfect place to turn up the romance and disconnect from the noise this February in a safe and snowy setting. Imagine being snuggled up in a cozy cabin somewhere far away from reality. The fire is glowing as snow-capped mountains sit in the background. Hiking trails and ski slopes abound. This

it a great time to escape with your beloved to a remote cabin in the woods or try a romantic staycation closer to home. As the Covid-19 pandemic rages on, hotels and destinations around the U.S. have been doing their best to reopen safely, initiating strict health and safety protocols and updates like contactless check-in

©Sean Locke Photography/Shutterstock While Covid-19 has put 2021 Mardi Gras on hold, there’s a way to tastefully and safely celebrate it at home. It’s by ordering a king cake by mail. There are bakeries across the American South that ship their creations of this oval-shaped and tri-hued dessert across most of the U.S.  Often many

A look at what will trend in 2021. Pinterest recently released its seventh annual Pinterest Predicts report, providing a look into what people around the world have been searching for in 2020 and what it could mean for trends in travel, health and wellbeing, beauty, home décor, special events, parenting, fashion, food and beverage, finance

©ESB Professional/Shutterstock America’s Best Idea is welcoming a new park to the National Park system. New River Gorge National Park ​was designated as the United State’s 63rd National Park. America’s Best Idea is welcoming a new park to the National Park system. New River Gorge National Park was designated as the United State’s 63rd National Park. 

We spoke with Dr. Kunjana Mavunda, M.D., a travel medicine specialist and pulmonologist at the International Travel Clinic, to find out how to be smart about flying during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Coronavirus cases are continuing to spike in the United States making it quite unappealing to fly as it’s impossible to socially distance on

©Vitalii Bashkatov/Shutterstock Jupiter and Saturn will align for the first time in 400 years on December 21. Stargazers who look to the sky on Monday night, December 21, will be rewarded with the Great Conjunction – the first time in 400 years that Saturn and Jupiter will be aligned in the night sky. The closeness

Get into the holiday spirit outdoors and admire holiday decorations and lights from a socially distanced walking path. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, though things may not feel as festive this year thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic. The CDC recently released special guidelines for holiday travel and gatherings and officially recommends staying

As the current pandemic is changing how we celebrate the 2020 holiday season, the tradition of seeing public holiday lights displays at night can now be done from the safety of your car. From readapted walking tours to first-time happenings or continuing events, here are holiday lights drive-throughs around the U.S. to take a ride-along.

©Leonard Zhukovsky/Shutterstock New York City residents can request to book a holiday sleepover at FAO Schwarz starting on December 15th at noon EST for the chance to make your kiddos’ holiday wishes come true. Airbnb is coming to the rescue for one very lucky New York City-based family to create a magical holiday season for

If you’re looking for a road trip that combines nightlife, laid back beaches, and a little Key Lime pie, the four hour drive from Miami to Key West is the perfect adventure. The Florida Keys are a chain of islands just south of Miami that stretch 125 miles, and the most ideal time to visit

©spreephoto.de/Getty Images A geomagnetic storm should allow the northern lights to be seen in the Northern United States. The Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has put out a geomagnetic storm watch for December 9-11, 2020. The storm should make the Northern Lights viewable across a large swath of the Northern United States. The forecast is the

Everyone told us we were crazy to try to travel with a cat in our tiny, 17′ Casita travel trailer. Dogs? Dogs are easy. But, cats are a different animal altogether — literally. (There’s a reason I put together an entire guide to traveling with a cat in a car long-distance.) Vagabondish is reader-supported. When

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