Falling For the Leaves. (10/18/24)—Falling, falling—here’s what’s falling into place this Autumn travel season: Inflation is easing; petrol prices (ppg) have been dropping. Some airfares are falling, although not nearly enough. Rail and motor coach fares are cut to...

Unfortunately, some of the world’s prime soft targets happen to be places and events we want to visit. But beyond cities, monuments, shrines, parks, shows or other gathering points, the most hazardous hotspots remain transport terminals and the modes that pass throu...

Follow the emergence of timely, topical graphs, ven diagrams, and charts tasked with comparing and contrasting pertinent travel trendlines: land, sea and air.* See, at this time of post-Trumphoria/ Trumphobia, of matastisizing Blue State-Red State divergencies, it behooves us...

An overview of the tides and trends along travel lines, affecting, influencing Vamigrés, near and abroad, including topical non-fiction TripLit* : (Update: 2/16/22)—Layaway or Stay Away? It does seem quite sensibly go-able, right? Play now, pay later: Live out your travel dreams...

Vamometer: EU—There’s a new, more welcoming price to be paid for popularity. Just ask Venice, Italy: Flipping the Skiff. (12/15/23)—Little wonder Venice is poised to impose a visitor entrance fee beginning in 2024, tripping up day trippers for the privilege of soaking in...

Our interactive chat/sounding board on the gamut of current, controversial travel-related issues in the Vamigré vein—such as concerted consumer activism, global affronts, impeded Vamentum and Vamifications…  Here is where the debates begin, over travel related issues,...

(4/26/23)—In this overview/monitoring process, Vamigré will closely track and graph terror alerts and threat potential by area/destination, along with stats and trends on crime, traffic and other bodily hazards/dangers by mode/destination, for instance: Bird Strike Too: So Hard...

VamoSanctity (Freedom of Movement) + Border/Shutdown Update (Premise). The New Renormal (5/17/22)—The Biden administration has just introduced plans to relax tough Trump-Era sanctions, enabling Cuban citizens to live freer from “government oppression.” Beyond removing a $1,000...

CrowdStuck. (7/25/24+)—With the click of a switch last Friday morning, cybersecurity company CrowdStrike struck a blow for global disruption and chaos—no cyberattack but a massive ‘friendly-fire’ operational glitch, widely advanced due to CS’s deep access into...

Air Carriers & Craft + Labor Woes (Premise). THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MODES. A/A to SWA, GOODWILL BLUNTING. 10/25/21+—Whatever good terms and tidings took flight as pandemic travel restrictions loosened earlier this year were grounded this past holiday weekend as the...

Runway Chronicals📌 (Premise). Changi Is In The Air. (12/4/23)—That is, the rarified air of being named the World’s Best Airport in 2023 by SkyTrax Airport Awards. For Singapore’s Jewel Changi Airport has completed a 3½ year, 21,000 square-foot T2 terminal expansion...

Quagmire One is the phalanx/series of post-Trumpian travel bans, however misguided they have been and continue being. Hotly, immediately contested by the courts, tougher visa screening and extreme vetting methods have sown anger and anxiety in U.S.-bound travelers and hopeful...

Air Carriers & Craft (Premise). Virgin Gala, Italian Style. (6/30/23)—Virgin Galactic has gone and spread ’em again, winging off from its New Mexico Spaceport America Thursday morning with a spirited, if not spicy payload of three Italian airmen/engineers. (Update:...

Also along these lines… Pilot Frights. (8/16/23)—The latest in cockpit calamities: The right engine of a Southwest Flt. 307 bound for Cancun from flamed out shortly after take0ff August 11, returning to Houston’ Hobby Airport . This after another SWA 737, Flt. 2493 aborted...

+ Doggone Dilemma. Getting Testy. (3/14/24)—Will they ever learn? Namely a student pilot who attempted to storm the cockpit of a recent cross-country flight. One Nathan Jones, 19, boarded Alaska Airlines Flight 322 in San Diego, a 737-900 bound for Washington D.C., and was seated...

(2/6/23)—To reiterate: It’s not just where we go, but how we get there. Planes, trains, buses and cruise ships barely scratch the surface, however, as Vamigré will also traffic in wheels within wheels (including choice, mean wheels), motors in perpetual motion, blades to...

Vamobility: Previews & Reviews of Modes & Means (Premise). California Speedin’.        (Update: 12/9/23)—As go politics and pump prices, so goes US high-speed rail… No better example of this precarious, often inverse relationship exists than the nation’s...

Covering righteous chariots of require to chariots of desire to chariots of fire to chariots for hire. From four-wheel dreamboats, carry-alls, 4-WDers of power and privilege—all to keep us motorvated and on the move— even as gas prices continue to rise…  Vamobiles: So many...

We’ll surely be rockin’, and when warranted, will bother knockin’, the full gamut of tricked-out trucks  and campers–mellow to mighty (e.g., the likes of Odyssey, Pacifica, Renegades–even vintage Rover Defenders).  In other words, rigs for good...

Domestic day-to-day workhorses and more lavish set-ups (Airstreams, Winnies on up) for rootless homebodies who value the Vamigré basics, or demand all the creature comforts, for the longer haul…  R/Vs, Trailers, Motorhomes. For the longer haul, Vamigré will thoroughly...

  Here, Vamigré will apply our Four-R’s regimen: Review, rate, rank and recommend: Motorcycles/Scooters. Reviewing and rating, by Vamigré standards, two-wheel freewheelers for the speed freaks and faint of ride alike: from Peoples minis to Ducatis and Harleys. Plus...

 On-Demand Ride Hailing. 📌 Beyond standard auto rentals, hail the current overheated, curb-to-curb competition between ride-sharing giants spreading worldwide, and the growing Turo peer-to-peer car rental service. On the surface, easy to say that Lyft is comparatively the good...

9/8/21—Add to these out-of-body preventative measures Vamigré’s ministering to larger health, illness and healing issues the world over, graphical plotting/breakdowns of Vamocertified anti-viral shots and other medicinals: including motion sickness pills. Vamedical will...

Salves, potions, practices and remedies that are good for what ails you: jet lag to sea/motion sickness and all. Plus exercises, disciplines, methods to better shape up and maintain your mobile selves… For instance, shaping up, how best to prepare mentally and physically...

Hydrogen: Burn or Cell? (8/24/22)—Fossil fuels beget hybrid/electric?  Then again, why not just throw a baby Jackery into the bathwater, see what flies? Well not quite, but cleanly turning electrolyzed water into hydrogen aeronautical propulsion is an alternative process that has...

Scenery and serenity—parks and places we go to get right, recreation, relaxation or just get away. So we shall cover the grandeur and sheer beauty and inspiration of these hallowed lands, as well as events, efforts or conditions that augur to hollow them out. This could include...

Will your travels broaden or shallow your mind? If the former, be it for an indie concert or concerto Italiano, a local festival or festival internationale, join Vamigré as we take on a world of fine art, folk crafts, classic Impressionism and modern Expressionism—Calder,...

Whether their rally cry is ‘surf’s up’ or ‘play ball’, sporting activities and events are a natural travel draw, and Vamigré will explore them accordingly —from the beach to the bleachers, suite level to the cricket pitch to the football club and...

So, down to material business: What locals and discriminating Vamigrés might wear in and about and around a given destination/experience—based on climate, weather forecasts and conditions, seasons and activities planned and unplanned. Wearables, wareables, gear and...

Venturing beyond serious travel news/business, this interactive, encounter-culture hub is where dedicated Vamigos™ and Vamigas™ will gather and greet, spin and share—in essence, to showhow—via their high-quality, curated Vameos™ and Vamoirs™. Extolling the virtues of places been,...

Whether or not 60 is the new 40, 70 the new 50, there is exponential growth in the pre- and retirement age group—which is where the time and money are heading. This new senior momentum resides primarily in the fabled Baby Boom and beyond, the original disruptive generation that...

Artfully melding past and present, VamoSilvers bring a lifetime of wisdom and memorable experience to the travels of today. Perhaps a new journey to Amsterdam will spark flashback remembrances of visits past, coalescing a uniquely meaningful fresh perspective; same with a foray...

  Silverville—it is what it’s never been up to now, the trick being to make the everlivin’ most of it. So here we explore, survey the niceties and necessities of mature to mischievous ol’ travel by Vamigrés who refuse to go noddingly into the good night,...

That is, sneers, smirks, snickers or keel-over laughers, as Vamigré’s mirthical travelers explore the world of ongoing grins and gaffes, of cackles or cringes, of grimaces or guffaws—and of miscues, mishaps or total merriment along the way. Humor us world, will ya? Be it by...

  A brief intro foray into the weeds of T/T media coverage: Post-Tourism Travel Journalism, Not Junketism.*    In the global geopolitical sense, today’s travelers still face a very different world: namely a turbulent post-9/11 world enmeshed in a dangerous tangle of...

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