Travel

Remember When Planning a Vacation Meant Visiting Betty at the Travel Agency Three Weeks Early?

Planning a family vacation in the 1980s was an elaborate ritual involving travel agents, mailed brochures, and weeks of advance preparation. Today, you can book a complete trip in twenty minutes from your phone.

Mar 17, 2026

Coast to Coast in 1927 Took Six Weeks. Now It Takes Six Days — or Six Hours.

The American road trip is practically a national mythology — Route 66, the open horizon, the freedom of the highway. But the road trip your great-grandparents took looked almost nothing like the one you'd take today. Before the Interstate Highway System existed, crossing the country wasn't an adventure. It was an ordeal.

Mar 13, 2026