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Taiwanese Trans Travelers Might Soon Get Passport Designation

More freedoms might be coming to Taiwan following last year’s Supreme Court same-sex marriage ruling, now advocates and government officials are championing a third gender option on government-issued identification cards and passports, an official said Tuesday.

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Lucky Girl Gets Flight To Herself

“I got a whole plane to myself when I was accidentally booked on a flight just meant for moving crew,” she captioned her Reddit post Wednesday.

Blame it on the “bomb cyclone” hitting the East Coast and overworked airline agents scrambling to rebook passengers or just sheer dumb luck: She got a deal!

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Amanda Geissler

Popular Tour Guide Killed in Devastating Costa Rica Plane Crash

American adventure tour guide Amanda Geissler was living her dream when her single-engine airplane slammed into the side of a mountain along in Costa Rica New Year’s Eve.

There were no survivors. Two American families and two pilots Juan Manuel Retana and Emma Ramos perished with Amanda in the Nature Air crash December 31.

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Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport blackout

World’s Busiest Airport’s Day In The Dark, Flights To Resume

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Went Dark Sunday Afternoon Diverting And Grounding All Flights Causing Major Headaches For Travelers Around The World by Heather Cassell As darkness descended upon Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport the world stopped at the busiest airport in the world. The power outage affected more than 30,000 people. More than 1,000 departing flights […]

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Christmas Present (Photo: Courtesy of The Daily Mirror)

Gifts For Galivanting Women On Your Christmas List

We here at Girls That Roam love to travel. But just as much as we will hop on a plane or train or simply drive down an open road we love to have our wanderlust inspired during the days when we are reminiscing about our adventures and planning new ones.

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San Francisco International News

SFO Gives The Gift Of Free Parking For The Holidays

SFO Tests A Potential Relief To Holiday Traffic At The International Airport by Heather Cassell Picking up and dropping off your friends and relatives at San Francisco International Airport became a little easier and a little less expensive earlier this week. Now until January 8, 2018 short-term parking will be free for 30-minutes or less […]

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American Airlines

American Airlines Tackles Diversity Issues With Massive Overhaul

American Airline employees will have to undergo mandatory anti-discrimination and ongoing implicit-bias training starting at the beginning of 2018, the airline announced.

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Rohina Bhandari

Shark Kills Philanthropist In Costa Rica

A Wall Street Executive Diving At A Word Renowned UNESCO World Heritage Site In The Cocos Island National Park Met With An Untimely Vicious Fate

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United Airlines

Woman Died Aboard United Flight From Tel Aviv To San Francisco

Marcia Louise O’Leary of Spokane, Washington died on a United Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to San Francisco December 1.

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Qatar Airways (Photo: Courtesy of Qatar Airways)

Plane Makes Emergency Landing Due to Hysterical Cheated Woman

Qatar Airways was forced into an emergency landing mid-way to Bali, Indonesia in India after a drunk woman discovered her husband was cheating on her and became hysterical Sunday.

The unidentified woman allegedly secretly used her sleeping husband’s finger to unlock his phone where she discovered he was cheating on her.

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Experts Question Two Women Lost At Sea Story

Experts have been seriously questioning two women’s story of being lost in the South Pacific following the Navy’s harrowing rescue last month as they started pulling apart, examining and finding fallacies in their story.

Under closer scrutiny, their tale at sea immediately started to fall apart and sound more like a tall tale of being lost at sea. The women are defending their version of what happened on the high seas.

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Tasha, Jennifer and their two dogs were rescued by the USS Ashland months after their boat became adrift in the Pacific. (Photo: Associated Press)

Women Sailors Lost At Sea Blissful By Navy Rescue

Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava stood with the USS Ashland’s commanding officer and others high on the bridgeway when the ship arrived at White Beach Naval Facility in Okinawa Monday, October 30, local time in Japan.

Five days earlier, the U.S. Navy’s USS Ashland rescued the two women and their two dogs from their shark and storm-battered sailboat 900 miles southeast of Japan.

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