It may not be welcome news, but it is news frequent travelers will want to know: major U.S. airlines have said they plan to hike the cost of travel along many routes during peak travel times next spring and summer.

If you've been the victim of luggage so inexplicably lost that you'd chocked it up to some kind of evil wormhole in the travel cosmos, you’ll be interested to learn that there might just be an entirely logical – if completely despicable – explanation: this guy.

Along with an accomplice, Keith Wilson King was arrested this week after police reportedly discovered as many as 1,000 pieces of stolen luggage in his Phoenix home. Authorities started watching King last month after he was caught arriving at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, heading to a baggage carousel, removing a piece of luggage and exiting the airport, MSNBC reports.

Whether you're a raging tween Twilight "twi-hard" (as some are apparently calling the pop-culture phenom's legions of fans these days), happen to be living under the same roof with one or just think a journey into the unspoiled wild spaces of the Pacific Northwest sounds like a good way to spend a few days away, a good jumping off place for your travel research to Washington State's Olympic Peninsula region comes in the form of Washington State Tourism's new Twilight Travel Guide.

Explore Devon House, the carefully restored mansion constructed in 1881 as the home of Jamaica's first black millionaire, George Stiebel. Antiques from England, France and the Caribbean appear throughout the Georgian-style building, and the landscaped grounds cover 11 acres. Along with the house itself, a separate courtyard with shops and restaurants offers Caribbean edibles, ice cream, Jamaican-made products and art.