Peter Kinney articles

You spent months looking forward to relaxing on the sand, only to find that when you arrived, much of the shoreline was closed because of erosion or safety concerns.

I had planned an entire vacation around one famous natural attraction, only to discover that visitors could not enter when I arrived. A closure does not always leave travelers completely out of luck, but recovering the rest of the trip costs can be much harder than obtaining a refund for admission.

Discover the surprising things Canadians notice immediately when visiting Florida, from alligators and afternoon storms to giant highways, beach rules, toll roads, and oversized restaurant portions across the Sunshine State.

A city may have compact neighborhoods, nearby attractions, and excellent pedestrian connections while still exhausting older visitors after a few hours. The problem is that most rankings measure access to destinations, not whether every traveler can comfortably complete the journey.

An airport hotel’s shuttle can be the deciding factor when a traveler chooses where to spend the night, especially before an early flight. Hotels can adjust operating schedules, but an undisclosed change becomes harder to defend when the original shuttle promise materially influenced the booking.

Some of America’s most recognizable bridges, buildings, transportation systems, and scientific achievements cost far more than taxpayers and planners were originally promised. The overruns caused scandals and outrage, but many of the finished projects eventually became treasured landmarks or defining symbols of their cities and eras.

A widely shared study ranked 25 countries according to how friendly their residents appeared in a personality assessment, producing several predictable winners and a few genuine surprises. The survey came from the American company Remitly, although its participants lived in 27 different countries rather than exclusively in the United States.