Walkabout: Traveled in the Last Year? Most Americans Say No

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Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group. Credit Abraham Caro Marin/Associated Press
Walkabout

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Homebodies Did you travel in the last year? If so, you are in the minority of Americans. According to a survey conducted by the travel site Skift, 62 percent of adults in the country did not travel for business or pleasure. (Skift)

Wanderers At the other extreme: people who have quit their jobs to travel full time. (BBC)

Found Lost your smartphone? The T.S.A. probably has it. (The Los Angeles Times)

Outer Limits The ever-amusing Richard Branson, above, on Virgin Galactic’s maiden space voyage and the possibility of new kinds of tourism, from submarines to the sky: “We may launch spaceships from our cruise ship. Who’s to know?” (The New York Times)