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Delta's SkyMiles changes shake up frequent-flier programs
The latest effort by the nation's airlines — led by Delta — to lower the value of frequent-flier miles is this: More will be needed to get on a flight that's popular.
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A tour of Oregon, from orchards to ocean
From orchards to oceans to Crater Lake, a driving trip in Oregon is ripe with beautiful scenes.
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Midwest Traveler: Hungry like a Wolverine in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Ann Arbor, an exurb of Detroit and a blend of Midwest urban and rural, may not have the most eye-catching wrapping. But inside is a jewel of a present.
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Travel Desk: New chip credit cards may not work while traveling
Soon, U.S. overseas travelers' frustrations with credit cards could ease. Visa and MasterCard are switching to a chip-reading system, which is used nearly everywhere else in the world.
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Mystical, melancholy Istanbul, Turkey
A visitor encounters historic mosques and extraordinary hospitality in the Turkish city.
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Tour the mines and caves under the surface of Minnesota
If you look past the visible natural and man-made wonders of our state — look beneath them, actually — you'll find a whole other Minnesota underground.
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Midwest Traveler: Iowa brewery may be world's 'second best'
To beer fans, that modest brown building just outside of Decorah's quaint downtown, above a bend in the Upper Iowa River, is home to the world's second-best brewery.
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Returning to the same old spot, and loving it
You drive up the sunny road and find nothing has changed. You know the best place on the lake for a swim, when to settle on the porch for sunset and where to buy the best burger.
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On St. Barts, azure water, white sand and a hungry turtle
It's hard to get there, and that gives the island a refined, white-sand quiet.
In Zimbabwe, after the death of Cecil the lion
A Minnesota family travels to Zimbabwe shortly after the shooting of Cecil and encounters those who knew the lion well.
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Ugly Minnesota? Residents take to Twitter to differ
A Washington Post reporter gets an earful after Minnesota ranks low on his list of the most desirable counties to live in, with Red Lake rated the worst.
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Traveling Route 66 with a boatload of old cars and a busload of gearheads
Since 1983, dozens of vintage cars and trucks have set out each year on an epic cross-country road rally. This year, more than 115 vehicles paid the $5,000 entry fee to join the trip down fabled Route 66.
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On Broadway, privy lines get bad reviews
Broadway has a privy problem. Lines. LOOONG lines. In one glorious historic theater after another, womenfolk grumbled about, ahem, limited seating.
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Cape Cod still provides a natural escape
The National Seashore retains the beaches, dunes and forests that first made the Cape famous.
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Family walks the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage path in Spain
Three generations of a family discover common ground while walking Spain's Camino de Santiago, also known as "the Way."
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