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‘I Should Have Known Better’ Or perhaps not. We are navigating a new world of travel where planning for the unpredictable, more than ever, is part of the itinerary. Now vaccinated, Wendy Perrin nevertheless continues to try to stay out of convenience stores attached to gas stations, calling them “the scariest places on the highway.” Credit...Tom Sibley for The New York Times By Julie Besonen May 13, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Tammy Barbie’s first family trip since the onset of the pandemic began with a strategic error. Rushing to get to the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport for...

Print this article (rclassenlayouts/Getty Images/iStockphoto) Gas prices have skyrocketed over the past few months and are likely to stay at those new levels or inch higher as summer approaches. While almost every aspect of emerging from the state-endorsed COVID-19 restrictions has been positive, prices consumers pay at the pump have maintained a steady upward trajectory since November, only flattening out to about $2.90 per gallon on average in the past month or so. Many people wonder why and how the price changed so quickly from its recent low of just $1.94 in April of last ye...

The Best Outdoor Adventures in America Right Now By Jen Murphy © Mick Kelley We all crave these days what Thoreau called "the tonic of wilderness": vast space, no people, plenty to see and soak up. Here's where to find it in the USA. Henry David Thoreau, the American naturalist and philosopher, called our desire for big nature "the tonic of wilderness." We sure all need it now. Below are 21 great outdoor adventures—on the East coast, the West coast, the Midwest, and the South. We have organized them by degrees of physical difficulty involved: From almost none (Part 1, Ad...

Wake up in a wonderland in the Southwest Now that Under Canvas has glamping tents in the stunning parks of the Southwest , like this site near Arches National Park, there's no need for DIY if you’d really rather not. Courtesy of Under Canvas The only way to spend the night in the magically colored and contoured national parks of the Southwestern U.S. used to be basic DIY camping. No longer. When the pioneering glamping company Under Canvas opens its newest camp in April—on the edge of Canyon Rim Plateau in Lake ­Powell–Grand Staircase, on 220 acres of red, orange, and yellow land—y...