International visitor bureaus are sensing a travel awakening from a COVID-caused slumber, judging from the increasing number of travel news releases in my mailbox — many with new, creative ideas for trips.

Two recent survey results conclude that although Texas-tourist destinations for snowbirds are budget friendly, they may lack glamor and ”bling.”

In a new year, Planet Word, a new museum with voice-activated exhibits, debuts in Washington D.C., with a mission “dedicated to the power, beauty and fun of language: showing how words shape the human experience.” Admission is free.

Ski resort importuning’s to visit drift onto my computer screen. As several vaccines against COVID-19 appear imminent, travel may return as an option.

Whether past fun trips were modest and nearby, perhaps visiting relatives, or to legendary, exotic Timbuktu in Mali, Africa, there are usually accumulated photos, in hard copy or online, as well as ephemera that rekindle joy and adventure.

For Halloween, or October in general, finding something scarier than fear of contracting COVID-19 might be more challenging this year.

Travel, usually by vehicle, to smaller family-type local and regional attractions is enjoying an upsurge in COVID-19 times over longer trips to larger, brassier cities with Disney-like group formats and crowds.

The observation that “COVID-19 changed everything” applies even to the recreational vehicle sitting in your or a neighbor’s driveway or garage.

As the COVID-19 reality seemed to abate for a while, but then sneaked back, we’re bewildered about conflicting stay-at-home recommendations vs. the beginning this week of traditional summer travel season.

As the “outside-the-United-States” summer/fall travel season opens, albeit changed and limited by COVID-19, it’s helpful to review what to do when the unexpected or an emergency happens to American citizens.

“Armchair travel” has ballooned to even wider horizons and audiences in the “time of corona.”

Friends and acquaintances from around the world are emailing to share with me their personal impressions of the atmosphere created by the coronavirus in their location. A sampling includes Rome, Taiwan and London — with photos.

What could be more travel fun than celebrating St. Patrick’s Day by planning your own sojourn to the Emerald Isle?

The desert country of Saudi Arabia is the “hottest” new destination in international travel world buzz, literally and figuratively.

When the Library of Congress, in Washington, asked America’s public for help in transcribing historic documents written in cursive penmanship, about 11,000 people across America volunteered in 2019, the first year.

For a fee, the general public can spend overnight “inside” a painting by realist Edward Hopper (1882-1967) one of America’s most famous artists, exhibited through Feb. 23 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia.

Even in retirement, Texas-born President Dwight D. Eisenhower chose farm acreage for his “last posting” literally surrounded by the same type of honored warriors he commanded in some of world history’s most famous battles.

Crashing a car into a large upright piano being pushed across a downtown San Antonio street, not at an intersection, accompanied by musicians brandishing brass instruments, might be challenging to explain later to an insurance representative: One of those, “How did that happen?” incredulitie…

We were on the phone at George Bush Intercontinental Airport with an airline agent, who was helping us salvage a day of our vacation trip after Air Canada announced that our 6:15 a.m. flight from Houston to Calgary would be delayed about six hours.