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This week marks the official kickoff of the holiday travel season, perhaps the most stressful time to get from here to there, whether you’re on a plane, train or automobile. While I’m staying put this week, I’ll be joining my parents and sister in Florida for Christmas and going...

I’ve been lucky with most of my flights this year. There have been no horrendous delays, no lost luggage, no sitting on a tarmac. Air karma was on my side. Until today. An innocuous alert from Delta last week announced that there were “schedule changes.” Careful reading showed that...

I grew up thinking that vacations started at dawn – whether you wanted it that way or not. On the mornings of our family road trip, the alarm clocks sounded before the sun rose, and we’d wake bleary eyed to the smell of brewing coffee, the sound of my dad loading the car and sight of my exhausted...