Customers wait in a long line at a Starbucks cafe in a terminal at Miami International Airport, in Miami, Dec. 12, 2022. Jeff Greenberg | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Air travelers face a host of headaches on their journeys: slow security lines, long waits for plush lounges, the threat of delays or cancellations…
A year ago, as the U.S. government continued to climb out of the bureaucratic hole that Covid-19 and staffing woes had dug, the wait time for a new passport was as long as 13 weeks. During some periods in late 2022 and early 2023, the State Department received some 500,000 applications a week, the highest…
I've been traveling for years, and in my unscientific opinion, the worst part of long flights isn't adjusting to the time difference. It's that they deprive you of sleep. Jet lag can be a bulldozer that flattens you for your first two days of vacation, wasting precious, hard-earned time. After cumulatively spending many weeks…