AAA project busy travel for Thanksgiving week in Delaware Valley

AAA is projecting that more than 975,000 Philadelphia-area residents will travel over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, an increase of 2.4% over last year – exceeding pre-pandemic  numbers and setting a new record. As usual, the great majority of those travelers will be driving to their holiday destinations. AAA is projecting that more than 870,000 Philadelphia-area residents (nearly 90% of local...

AAA: 47 million expected to travel this week for holiday

A record-breaking 46.9 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more away from home this Independence Day holiday, an increase of more than five percent compared with last year and the highest number since AAA started tracking 18 years ago. For the 39.7 million Americans planning a Fourth of July road trip, INRIX, a global transportation analytics company, predicts travel times in the most congested...

AAA: Fourth of July 2016 likely to have highest traffic volume ever

Chester County, you know you’re not staying home this weekend. Whether you’d headed down the shore, off to see relatives or just ready to get out of town for a few days, according to AAA, fewer of you than ever will skip a “staycation” this coming long weekend. Americans will take more trips than ever this Independence Day weekend. The nearly 43 million people projected to...

California dreamin’: the left coast is awesome

But you need to know a few things before moving there… By Kelly Hockenberry, Columnist, The Times My family and I just returned from the most amazing vacation to southern California. It was SO good that none of us wanted to come back to Pennsylvania. And, that is saying something when you have two teenagers. What made it so spectacular? The weather. How could you not love low (to no) humidity,...

A tale of two cities: London and Paris

Bring your appetites, but maybe leave those sunglasses home By Kelly Hockenberry, Columnist, The Times Our anniversary trip to London and Paris was AMAZING!  However, such a grand adventure does not happen without a few pitfalls. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…    Send article as PDF