Travel

THE BOTTOM, Bonaire - The small propeller airplane lands quickly and softly, like a butterfly, on one of the world's shortest commercial runways on the rainforest-capped island of Saba, which rises stunningly out of the Caribbean.

VICKSBURG, Miss. - The Lower Mississippi River Museum uses hands-on displays to help people understand the lore and power of the waterway that has shaped North American life for centuries.

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. - Southeastern Michigan's first big winter storm dumped more than half a foot of snow Wednesday, causing widespread accidents and forcing hundreds of flight cancellations or delays at Detroit Metropolitan Airport.

CAIRO - At Egypt's Pyramids, the desperation of vendors to sell can be a little frightening for some tourists. Young men descend on any car with foreigners in it blocks before it reaches the more than 4,500 year-old Wonder of the World.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - A massive winter storm is disrupting travel plans for tens of thousands of fliers trying to get home after Christmas.

WASHINGTON - For many passengers, air travel is only about finding the cheapest fare.

FORT DE SOTO PARK, Fla. - Picture this: You're sitting on a white sand beach, warm sun on your skin. Coconut-scented sunscreen wafts through the air. A splashing noise comes from the blue Gulf of Mexico.

WASHINGTON - Visitors coming to the nation's capital for President Barack Obama's second inauguration can't stay in the one place President Ronald Reagan's family once called an eight-star hotel.

YANGON, Myanmar - Survivors of a Christmas Day crash-landing of an airliner in Myanmar told terrifying tales of escape Wednesday as carrier Air Bagan apologized for what it called the worst accident since it started flying in 2004.

NEW ORLEANS - A Christmas Day twister outbreak left behind damage from Louisiana to Alabama while holiday travellers in the nation's much colder midsection battled sometimes treacherous driving conditions from freezing rain and blizzard conditions.