(This story was last updated on May 24, 2020) There is no question that the spread of the coronavirus around the world has affected not only travel in the short term but will continue to do so for at least a year or two into the future. Here is a collection of stories, arranged from …
Follow this five-step plan and you, too can “win” a one-year stay on Hawaii with “free room and board.” First, Pick an island, any island that normally welcomes tourists. Second, book a flight to and a hotel room on that island. Third, take the flight. Fourth, check into the hotel and go to your room. …
Forty years before, almost to the minute, that this article was posted on Tales Told From The Road, Mount St. Helens, a “dormant” volcano in Southwest Washington, blew its top. If, like my best friend, Bill, I had still been residing in or around my old hometown of Seattle, perhaps I might have heard the …
As elsewhere in the U.S., Oregon has been subject to coronavirus “Stay-At-Home” orders and restrictions on travel, closure of restaurants and bars, and very importantly for Oregonians, access to its state parks. Beginning on Friday, May 15, 2020, Oregon Governor Brown approved the applications of 31 of the state’s 36 counties to enter “Phase I” …