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(CNN) — Easter Saturday: It’s that candy lull between the weekend journey crowds. If you are celebrating, we want you a contented vacation season.
Now listed below are the largest journey tales this week.
Cruise management
Most of us aren’t any stranger to on-line impulse purchases — however Santa Cruz resident Chris Willson went one additional when he purchased a dilapidated cruise ship off Craigslist. Now he is elevating funds for a $3 million restoration and residing on board full time. Then there are the individuals who wish to spend the remainder of their lives on cruise ships, like Seattle couple Angela and Richard Burk, who’ve to this point spent a full yr at sea. Theirs is the second story in our new CNN journey sequence Monthly Ticket, which spotlights among the most fascinating matters within the journey world. In April, we’re specializing in the cruise business.
Chance Encounters
Love will be present in probably the most curious locations, even a Greyhound bus or broken-down commuter prepare.
For Tiffany and Bridgette Woods, their journey started with an opportunity assembly at Sacramento Bus Station and 35 years later, they’ve embraced marriage, youngsters and Tiffany’s gender transition alongside the way in which.
Tourism restoration
Covid shook up the world’s high vacation spot rankings. Now a brand new set of cities, most of them in Europe, lead the listing. And whereas the pandemic meant that China’s Guangzhou Airport dealt with probably the most passengers in 2020, final yr a bustling US hub reclaimed its title because the world’s busiest airport. For the third week in a row, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not add a single new vacation spot to its highest-risk Level 4 class for journey. But whereas Asia and the Caribbean have seen declines in Covid charges, a lot of Europe stays on the highest-risk rating.
Airline information
Other unusual objects just lately confiscated by the US Transport Security Administration embody a meth-filled burrito, a deodorant stick full of bullets, and a chainsaw. The US federal transportation masks mandate has been prolonged till May 3, which means that face coverings are nonetheless required aboard airplanes, trains and on public transport.
It’s a wing factor
First, we taught you the fascinating historical past of evacuation slides. Now we carry you the great world of winglets. Winglets are the ever-present little swooshes on the finish of recent plane wings, they usually assist airplanes save 1000’s of gallons of gasoline every year. Here’s how. And if wings are your factor, you may additionally have an interest within the newest blended wing ideas, such because the Airbus zero-emissions ZEROe and the futuristic Flying-V.
Life on the highway
A brand new e-book profiles individuals who have renovated classic Airstreams which are lovely each in and out.
In case you missed it
Catch up on the most recent installment of the “Parts Unknown” podcast right here.
A never-before-seen Venice landmark has simply opened to the general public.
Today, April 16, is the beginning of US National Park Week 2022 and, in celebration, the NPS is providing free entry to all 423 of its websites.
Get set, journey
Freddie Mercury put it finest when he sang, “Mmm num ba de, dum bum ba be.” We’ve all felt our ears below stress as we alter altitude on an airplane, however we do not have to endure in silence. Our companions at CNN Underscored, a product evaluations and proposals information owned by CNN, have requested specialists why ears pop and the way ear ache will be prevented.