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Folks used to blow right through the city of Napa on their way to the "real" Napa Valley. You know - Yountville, St. Helena and Calistoga, with their faux chateau wineries, hillside Tuscan-fortress homes, fine dining palaces and tasting rooms surrounded by...

Q: My airline has gone under, taking my award miles with it. I need your help getting them back. My husband and I planned a trip to Maui to join our daughter and grandchildren for a summer vacation together. We contacted our credit card company, Capital One,...

Those vexatious new fees on the airlines (fees for an aisle or window seat, fees for soft drinks, fees for luggage checked aboard, fees for talking to a telephone reservationist) remind me of what Mark Twain said about the weather: Everyone talks about it,...

More cost-cutting measures abound with the airlines in the past week or so. US Airways has decided to clip its inflight entertainment on domestic routes. This means no more movies...

Ah, was a struggle to scrape up some airfare specials for this week, but here are a few of the better ones I found... AirTran is having a sale with the...

Who hasn't left loose change behind at airport security screening points, or known someone who has? I suppose I hadn't really thought of where those coins went, but it seems...

Here is a rather unconventional way to earn frequent flyer miles - donate to a good cause and earn. "American Airlines has raised more than $600,000 for Susan G. Komen for...

HANOI, Vietnam - Motorbikes are everywhere in this capital of 3 million people, carrying everything from entire families to stacks of chicken coops. Far outnumbering cars and trucks, motorbikes with their beeping horns accelerate in waves and swerve through traffic that hurtles along like a rushing tide.

A nice bright flashlight is useful to have on hand - but sometimes more useful hands-free. Enter the 2Light from Zelco. A flick of a latch at the business end of the flashlight opens the cover. Pull out the light, and it becomes a headlamp, thanks to the adjustable headband that was hidden in the flashlight housing. The headlamp pivots to aim light via a rotating cylinder that also houses the light's three AAA batteries

Like any school group, they came to the museum in vans and minibuses. Scurrying around the grounds in giggling and chattering clusters, they resembled any other troop of students on a field trip. But this was no ordinary gathering of school-aged children.