Being a widow and loving to travel, I sometimes have the problem of finding a suitable travel partner. I usually go with my daughter or one of two friends, but on occasion all three of them are unavailable for a trip.

A couple of years ago, after I had two trips canceled because my usual travel partners had complications, my daughter found www.leisurelinkup.com (Edgewater, MD; 410/956-3552).

I was quite hesitant to use any online site to search for a travel partner, thinking...

My wife and I took an almost 3-week-long tour to Egypt and Jordan with Vantage Deluxe World Travel, Jan. 20-Feb. 8, 2008, at a cost of $10,248 for two, including round-trip airfare from Washington, D.C., to Cairo.

This was advertised as a 5-star trip. It involved two cruises, one on the Nile and the other on Lake Nasser.

I’d say the Nile ship, Crown Empress, was 3-star, not 5-star. This was confirmed by walking through other ships, as they were tied up one next to another; some...

I want to relate an incident that occurred on Aug. 4, 2008, at the Charles de Gaulle Airport in France.

We had taken a shuttle from the Hilton to the check-in area. It was not until we received our boarding passes that we realized we had left a carry-on bag on the shuttle bus.

As soon as we cleared security, I explained the problem to the clerk at the Air France lounge. She checked with Lost & Found and discovered the bag was there but said it was too close to boarding time...