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Greetings from San Diego, CA

12/10/24

The Stuck at the Airport team’s visit to San Diego, California ticked off the boxes of most of our quick trips: an airport visit, some museums, great meals and a cool hotel. If you’re headed that way, here are some places not to miss. (Artist: Thomas Erhard, image courtesy San Diego County Regional Airport Authority) →

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Visiting: Kalispell, Montana

03/07/23

The Stuck at the Airport adventure crew recently touched down in Kalispell, Montana for a quick visit to Glacier Park International Airport (FCA) and attractions in town. The bear (above) greets arriving passengers in the airport bag claim area. And is a good reminder to visitors to pick up some bear spray before heading out →

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Out & About in Arundel, England

08/04/22

Stuck at the Airport is out and about in the English countryside for a few days with Gary Gatwick, the mascot for London’s Gatwick Airport. Arundel, in West Sussex, is an easy one-hour train ride from Gatwick Airport. The town looks like one of those storybook English towns we sometimes see on TV travel shows, →

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Touring London with Gatwick Airport’s Mascot

08/02/22

Stuck at The Airport is spending a couple of days in London as a guest of Gatwick Airport,, the airport’s mascot, Gary Gatwick, and a growing list of new local friends, some of whom got us out of a sticky situation. (More on that soon…) After landing at Gatwick Airport and making the 30-minute journey →

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Visiting ‘The Big Dipper’

06/24/22

You can’t get everywhere by airplane. Sometimes you need to paddle. In Killarney, Ontario, on the North shore of the Georgian Bay, they get that. That’s why they built ‘The Big Dipper,’ – a canoe paddle that is 107 feet long, with a blade width of 17 feet, weighing in at 22,000 pounds. The paddle →

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Seattle’s Space Needle gets a reboot

05/26/18

Seattle's iconic Space Needle is getting a make-over. The landmark tourist destination and souvenir of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair marked a milestone in the reboot this week: the unveiling of specially-slanted glass benches that allow visitors to take super selfies out the new floor to ceiling glass windows that replace a low wall and cages. →

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Canada is looking very good right now.

02/07/17

With all that's going on in the U.S. right now, a trip to Canada is looking better and better. Especially with the exchange rate and the country's 150th anniversary celebrations underway. →

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