A new film featuring the original cast of “Downton Abbey,” the most watched drama series in public television history (120 million worldwide for the series), debuts in the United States on May 20. Titled “Downton Abbey: A New Era,” it premiered April 25 in Great Britain.

Two new free national museums, in Tulsa and District of Columbia, are celebrating their first anniversary this month.

When traveling outside the United States, try to include live theater and opera.

For many, shopping is an integral part of trips — foreign and domestic.

Men in black, silk top hats and men and women in robes trimmed in fake fur walking the streets and lawns added a fun, festive unexpected ambiance to our day trip out of London to storied Cambridge University, founded in 1209 in the United Kingdom.

Listening for sounds underneath the bark of trees, plus eavesdropping on “conversation” sounds among bees, are highlight exhibits of a day trip from London to Royal Gardens Kew, a 500-acre botanical showcase founded in 1759.

The Minack Outdoor Theatre, in Cornwall in southwestern Britain, with its steep cliffs and monstrous Atlantic waves as a backdrop, is as dramatic as the plays and concerts presented there.

Widening international travel horizons, from touring iconic buildings to actually meeting locals to share cultural experiences, requires creative thinking “outside the box.”

Boarding a public bus in Irkutz, Siberia, a passenger, our guide’s teacher, recognizing him, moved toward us in an impromptu greeting.

About an hour west on Interstate 70 out of Denver airport, we slowed to inching, as police directed drivers creeping over a rock-strewn mudslide across I-70.

Do you remember your first plane ride?

Wade into an exhibit featuring bathing suits, historic accessories such as hats, bathing caps and sunglasses.

Publicity surrounding Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and the recent death of her husband Prince Philip triggered memories of my stay at Treetops, a famous Kenyan hotel built within a monster tree beside a favorite East Africa animal watering hole. In 1952, while a Treetops guest, Elizabeth lea…

Airline travel shot up last month. The Transportation Security Administration estimates it processed 171,000 travelers in March 2020, contrasted with one million travelers last month.

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.