Death tips

Barbara Joans, an iconoclastic anthropologist and feminist who, in her early 60s, became something of a Margaret Mead in black leather, steering her Harley-Davidson deep into a biker culture and producing the 2001 book, “Bike Lust: Harleys, Women, and American Society,” died on March 6 in Santa Cruz, Calif. She was 89.

We didn't do it on purpose. It was actually quite late in the process of assembling this issue that we realized it contained two stories which, though very different in many ways, were about parents taking their children on important trips. One is Ashlea Halpern's luminous meditation on the week she spent in Oman with her toddler son amid an epic three-week adventure following her father's death. The other is my own piece about watching my kids reenact the summer rituals of my childhood on Washington State's San Juan Islands. Both ultimately come to a conclusion we talk about a lot here: that travel is a gift to be shared and that passing it along enriches the lives of both the recipient and the giver.

A top UK lawyer who vanished after falling from a cruise has been declared dead by London's High Court of Justice, The Telegraph reported.

Fatal traffic crashes are the leading cause of work-related deaths each year in the United States. Nearly 40% of deaths on the job occur on American roads, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Two crew members aboard a Holland America cruise ship died during an 'incident' in the ship's engineering space.

Nearly 200 miles of roads have reopened in Death Valley National Park after they were damaged by a hurricane last year.

From eerie sandstone moonscapes and jagged granite towers to rare, endangered wildlife and some of the tallest, oldest trees in the world, California's national parks encompass a multitude of singular and beloved natural majesties.

Malaysia may renew the search for MH370, a decade after the flight disappeared

Drivers in the United States struck and killed an estimated 3,373 walkers in the first six months of 2023, for an average of 18 deaths every day. Those numbers represent a 4% decline from the same period a year before.

Following a huge wave of winter storms, the California desert is expecting another spectacular wildflower super bloom.

More than 44,000 lives were lost in traffic crashes in the United States in 2023. The number marks a 4% decline from 2022, but compared to pre-pandemic 2019, it’s a 13.6% spike, demonstrating “the seriousness of this public health crisis.”

Traveler editor Lale Arikoglu was flying through the night from New York to Istanbul the summer of 2017 when a group of flight attendants rushed down the aisle and stopped next to a woman two rows behind her. The passenger had been unresponsive when her seatmate tried to wake her so he could use the bathroom. The crew called for a doctor, and the pilot got on the PA system to let passengers know they would be making an emergency landing in Zurich.

Death Valley National Park, which usually known for its record-setting temperatures is making headlines for something truly unique — lots and lots of rain.

“ A death toll of 1.19 million is way too high a price to pay for our mobility… we need to do more. The rates of deaths in the United States are seven times higher than in Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.” — Dr. Etienne Krug

Tow truck drivers, mobile mechanics, emergency roadside technicians, and safety service patrols are among the roadside assistance workers who put themselves at risk every day to help others, but are struck and killed nearly four times more than reported.

A 63-year-old man died during a Lufthansa flight this week after losing "liters of blood' in a scene that terrified passengers.

Life happens — things come up and trips get canceled. That’s the position I was in recently when a personal emergency forced me to cancel a trip to my alma mater in Madison, Wisconsin.

It happened the day before I left for my trip. And, quite predictably, because I was rushing.

The memories of my first encounter with the California desert are so clear and intense that sometimes I wonder if I invented them, but I don’t believe so. I was hitchhiking across the States — it was the 1970s — and I was a young Englishman ‘on the road’, having read too much Jack Kerouac. My lift dropped me at a gas station near Barstow, a city in the Mojave Desert, in the south of the state. The car was air-conditioned and as I got out, I was hit by a wall of heat as strange and thrilling as anything I’d ever experienced. 

The late Jimmy Buffett turned his carefree, beach-loving, beer-drinking lifestyle into a billion-dollar empire long before his death in September 2023.

For a majority of bicyclists killed in crashes, the most serious injuries are to the head. Wearing a helmet can reduce that risk by about 60% – and help save cyclists’ lives – but many people still ride without them.