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Thanksgiving travel to see 13-year high

November 9, 2018, 3:40pm Business

Higher wages and more disposable income trump more expensive gas prices to motivate the most Americans to travel for Thanksgiving since 2005. Read story

In this photo taken on Sept. 22, 2018 Jello-O-Salad on display at the Disgusting Food Museum, in Malmo, Sweden. This comfort food is made with the candy-flavored gelatin Jell-O. Considered traditional American in the 1960s, it was especially popular amongst members of the Mormon Church. The various recipes include ingredients such as tomato soup, mayonnaise, cream cheese, vegetables, sausages, olives or anything else that may look good suspended in the colorful jelly. Dozen of foods likely to provoke extreme disgust in many people _ but considered palatable, even precious delicacies, in their home cultures _ go on display Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018 as the Disgusting Food Museum makes its world premiere in Malmo, Sweden.

Museum of disgusting delicacies opens

In this photo taken on Sept. 22, 2018 Jello-O-Salad on display at the Disgusting Food Museum, in Malmo, Sweden. This comfort food is made with the candy-flavored gelatin Jell-O. Considered traditional American in the 1960s, it was especially popular amongst members of the Mormon Church. The various recipes include ingredients such as tomato soup, mayonnaise, cream cheese, vegetables, sausages, olives or anything else that may look good suspended in the colorful jelly. Dozen of foods likely to provoke extreme disgust in many people _ but considered palatable, even precious delicacies, in their home cultures _ go on display Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018 as the Disgusting Food Museum makes its world premiere in Malmo, Sweden.

November 4, 2018, 6:02am Life

Sheep eyeball juice. Bull testicles. Maggot-infested cheese. American root beer. Read story

California’s first maritime heritage underwater trail showcases historic recreational boats and barges that have sunk to the bottom of Emerald Bay in Lake Tahoe.

Lake Tahoe offers new underwater trail

California’s first maritime heritage underwater trail showcases historic recreational boats and barges that have sunk to the bottom of Emerald Bay in Lake Tahoe.

November 4, 2018, 6:00am Life

There’s a new California State Park trail at Lake Tahoe, but for this one you’ll have to put away your hiking boots and grab a dive mask to explore it. Read story

You get a bottom-up view of the Chicago skyline, with streets, sidewalks and pedestrians, all above the cruise boats on the low-lying Chicago River in Chicago.

How I learn to relax, vacation like an adult

You get a bottom-up view of the Chicago skyline, with streets, sidewalks and pedestrians, all above the cruise boats on the low-lying Chicago River in Chicago.

November 4, 2018, 6:00am Life

It started out innocently enough. After a long stretch without vacation, I flew to Chicago on a Wednesday, full of energy and purpose. I would see as many friends as I could, take a trip to Michigan and back (no matter that it was over 200 miles from the city),… Read story

Five reasons to enjoy family travel

November 4, 2018, 6:00am Life

The freedom to explore the world around us is something to savor. Here are five reasons to be grateful for family travel: Read story

Jishnu Mukdrji and Penny Jacobs wait to board an Amtrak train Aug. 9 in Orlando, Fla. Murkdrji and Jacobs became friends from online train forums that get other rail enthusiasts together for trips around the United States. They were headed to Pennsylvania for a memorial service for one of the members in their train group who died of a heart attack in July while traveling with his train buddies to New Orleans.

Train lovers forge lifelong friendships through rail travel

Jishnu Mukdrji and Penny Jacobs wait to board an Amtrak train Aug. 9 in Orlando, Fla. Murkdrji and Jacobs became friends from online train forums that get other rail enthusiasts together for trips around the United States. They were headed to Pennsylvania for a memorial service for one of the members in their train group who died of a heart attack in July while traveling with his train buddies to New Orleans.

October 28, 2018, 6:02am Life

They’re aboard because they love trains: The pilot from New Orleans, the computer consultant from New Jersey, the retired tax lawyer from Florida, the computer accounting consultant from Queens and his mother, the retired corporate executive, the computer scientist from Florida’s Space Coast. Read story

Nebraska tourism may not be for everyone

October 28, 2018, 6:00am Life

Nebraska’s no longer nice, at least in its next tourism campaign. The new sales pitch has a self-deprecating bent: “Nebraska. Honestly, it’s not for everyone.” Read story

Best times to whale watch on the Pacific Coast

October 27, 2018, 6:00am Life

Highway 101 is not the only major north-south thoroughfare on the Pacific Coast. Read story

In the Asheville Pinball Museum, you pay $15 and play all you want on 80 machines ranging from the 1950s to the latest games.

Pinball museum revives American arcades

In the Asheville Pinball Museum, you pay $15 and play all you want on 80 machines ranging from the 1950s to the latest games.

October 21, 2018, 6:05am Life

Pinball isn’t virtual. It’s physical. You pull the steel plunger on the 1976 game “Evel Knievel” and the tension is pleasurable. The ball clacks against the glass top as it jumps off the hair-trigger flippers, which flick electronically with a fingertip press of the buttons waist-high on the sides of… Read story

World Heritage sites provide impressive history lessons

October 21, 2018, 6:02am Life

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization protects and preserves significant and inspirational places around the world. Locations carrying the important designation of World Heritage site provide an impressive history lesson as well as a virtual tour of many of the world’s most meaningful places. Read story