TravelCommons

What international travel is like in COVID times; tracking different country and regional COVID travel requirements that keep changing; cycling tour thru Puglia

Planning our Italy trip around new COVID rules and Alitalia bankruptcy; airports managing lines with AI and high-tech sensors; business travelers still missing

Hotel changes and cashless restaurants likely to stick after pandemic fades; updating recommendations after restaurant and bar closures from COVID lockdowns

Driving thru the Northeast; tracking COVID requirements for a fall Italy trip; updates to traveler gift guide; death of in-flight magazines; interview outtakes

Business travelers know Zoom calls do not replace face-to-face meetings and want to travel again; fantastic LaGuardia renovation; the early history of airports

Feeling travel coming back, we talk to CEO of ToursByLocals about the local tour market and then how frequent travelers are working on atrophied travel muscles.

Why and how we search out craft beer taprooms, and telling some taproom travel stories; Also mask hassles on my last couple of flights, Hertz continues to circle the drain; Uber and Lyft splashing cash to bring back drivers

What's new in travel insurance; resetting expiration dates on all my frequent traveler programs; another travel data breach; bankrupt Hertz letting cars get old

Escaped Chicago winter for a week of hiking and eating in Tucson; CEO of Koala talks about renting timeshares; travel planning gets hot and then cools back down; trying to extend the life of my Avios points

Pivot from San Diego to Tucson for COVID restrictions; planning tips for travel during COVID; CEO of Privacy4Cars talks about leaving data behind in rental cars