We're as guilty of it as anyone: trotting out every ridiculously cheap flight from New York or Boston or Atlanta to some cool-ass European capital or coast and saying, eyes wide and spittle spraying, "Now's the time!

When you ask Americans why they don’t travel abroad, the top reason they cite is cost.

We dedicate this article, not to the person who found it by pure happenstance, but to the highballer who went to Google and urgently typed “best places to take a vacation right now.”

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People’s biggest excuse for not traveling more is usually that they hate seeing new things, right?

For every primo travel destination, there’s a sweet spot to find it.

Don’t get us wrong: We love Instagram.

The pleasures of eating turn downright mysterious when you combine them with world travel.

For Americans who want to take a trip, Europe has long held the big glamour spots.

Far too many Americans plan a trip to Europe and draw their boundary at Berlin, or Prague, maybe Budapest.

Out there on that open road, the concept of going cashless is overrated.

If you’re the sort who really travels -- who lives and dies by cheap flight deals, who sleeps like a baby on hard airport carpet and on bumpy bus rides, who has learned to unsubtly-yet-tastefully mime the phrase “where’s the bathroom?” -- then you know what a slog it can be.