by Karen Fawcett | Aug 6, 2025
Hit-and-run thieves have many schemes for separating you from your possessions. An email has just crossed my screen pleading for help. It isn’t the first and it won’t be the last. Another traveler has just been robbed in the Paris Métro. He claims he was on the...
by Karen Fawcett | Jul 11, 2024
Traveling with kids is often the most rewarding way to take a vacation. But the Boy Scout motto, “Be prepared,” takes on new and more creative meaning. Forgetting things such as a favorite teddy bear, blanket or a night-light can cause the most well-behaved children...
by Karen Fawcett | Jun 21, 2022
Finally, I am in Italy. Now with COVID, my family has canceled. Air travel hassles abound. No fun! Our family vacation, planned for more than two years, started well. But I was nervous when I received nearly hourly emails from United offering to “buy” my...
by Karen Fawcett | May 18, 2022
Preparing for travel to Italy — COVID testing plus typical travel hassles May 2022 is here. It seems like forever since May 2020, when I reserved the house of anyone’s dreams in Tuscany between Penza and Montepulciano. Planning my travel to Italy, I spent weeks...
by Karen Fawcett | Apr 21, 2022
It’s safe to fly … I think. But others don’t. And cancellations are a mess. Just when I’ve decided it’s SAFE to fly, other NIGHTMARES have emerged. And the stories are anything but funny. Frequent fliers, who are used to dealing with...
