Airline network planners may have taken an extended holiday break in January, but they were back in full force this month.
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Love doesn’t sleep just because you’re traveling. This episode, in honor of Valentine’s Day, we’re dedicating an episode to our listeners’ stories, from tales of a windswept singles resort, to a fling in a Toronto hotel, to a surprising encounter in China. Whether you love or hate this holiday, or love to hate it, we promise this episode will be a fun one.
Lale Arikoglu: Hi, I'm Lale Arikoglu. And this is an episode of Women Who Travel. And we're marking Valentine's Day with a return of our listener dispatches. It's fun, it's candid, it's certainly not hallmark, and I think you'll enjoy it.
Danny Alpert: I was hoping that when he found out that I was traveling, that it would hurt him.
Speaker 3: So we're drinking champagne on the streets with strangers, and then running to more parties and more fireworks.
Speaker 4: Fortunately, in my tornado of packing, I had one sexy bra and lingerie set.
Melissa Gould: We'd joke that his love language is quiet. Which is not an actual love language.
Speaker 6: I went so far as to put on a Dayglow bikini. I went to the beach trying to get some attention.
Ellen Kushner: I thought that she had never traveled because she lived with this woman who hated travel.
Speaker 8: How am I gonna get out of this? How am I gonna send him home and have my best friend come on the rest of the trip with me instead?
Lisa Niver: I was talking to my coworker about this incredibly hot Adonis. And she said to me, "Does stuff like this happened to you all the time?"
Speaker 10: It was a Pilates retreat that I went to because my ex would not agree to go to a Pilates retreat.
Speaker 11: I wanted to know the difference between being in the Alfama District versus Bairro Alto. My boyfriend couldn't care less.
LA: Before we ask those listeners to dive deeper into their stories, I want to play a clip from Jessica Nabongo. Based in Detroit and of Ugandan parentage, she's a regular here, the first black woman to visit every country in the world and document her experiences. She's next week's guest. And at the end of the conversation for that episode, I had to find out if she'd had an adventure she could share today.
Jessica Nabongo: Okay, here's a crazy story. I won't give too many details but, um, so [laughing] so okay, when I went to China, uh, when you go to China on a US passport, you get like a five-day visa for that region. You can't fly outside of the region, but like say if you go to Beijing, you can stay for five days. Or if you go to Shanghai or whatever, right? So I flew in to China, and then I went to North Korea. And then I came back to China. So when I came back, I
Airline network planners may have taken an extended holiday break in January, but they were back in full force this month.
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Online travel agency Booking Holdings revealed lower expectations for the first quarter and full year of 2024 as travel demand in the United States begins to normalize following a post-pandemic surge.
On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will sweep across areas of North America.
Southwest Airlines and Omni Hotels & Resorts are teaming up to offer a special "Solarbration" sweepstakes ahead of the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024.The sweepstakes—which can be entered now through March 11—will reward two lucky winners with a prize package that includes air travel on a flight predicted to be in the direct path of the eclipse.The flight options include Southwest Flight 1252, which departs Dallas (Love Field) at 12:40 p.m. CT for Pittsburgh, and Southwest Flight 1721, which departs Austin at 12:55 p.m. CT for Indianapolis.Omni will do its part by putting the winners up in custom-designed guest rooms inspired by the celestial event. The special accommodations will be located at Omni Hotels in the departure cities of Dallas and Austin and the arrival cities of Pittsburgh and Indianapolis.In addition to roundtrip flights and accommodations for two nights, winners will receive exclusive solar eclipse viewing glasses and fun inflight experiences aboard their eclipse flights.
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What ski culture in the US has historically lacked is the idea of community-based après-ski activities. In the US, après-ski is usually no more than grabbing a drink in the ski lodge bar, and lacks the kind of scale and excitement that makes it a vital part of the ski day, as you’d find in the Alps.
In 42 days, a total solar eclipse will visit North America, throwing parts of Mexico, 15 U.S. states, and Canada into darkness for a few minutes during the day.
A survey by the travel organization Road Scholar (formerly known as Elder Hostel) has revealed that up to 30% of the company's tour participants are solo travelers; and of those solo travelers, 85% are women.
For basic information about how, when and where to experience North America’s total solar eclipse and why you must try to get yourself to the path of totality on April 8, check my main feed .
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