Get Outta Here!

The Super Bowl is back in a familiar spot: Miami, which is playing host to the NFL championship for a record eleventh time But a lot has changed, both in Miami tourism and the hoopla surrounding the game, in the ten years since Miami's last Super Bowl. Our guide to the scene for 2020 is Bill Talbert, CEO of the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau. And on My Favorite Trip, AP college football writer Ralph Russo takes us from the 2001-2 Super Bowl to the snows of Kilimanjaro.

Former Associated Press Tokyo bureau chief Malcolm Foster was expecting gorgeous scenery when he took his family on vacation in New Zealand. They're big fans of the Lord of the Rings movies, which were shot there. But they were gobsmacked by just how beautiful it was. Malcolm Foster reports on traveling through southern New Zealand with his wife and two teenage sons in the family's first camper van trip. And on My Favorite Trip: an upcoming auction takes us inside the travels of the Nobel Prize novelist John Steinbeck in the 1950s and '60s.

Most of the headlines about Ukraine have centered on impeachment and the war with Russia for control of the eastern half of the country. AP Rome correspondent Frances D'Emilio paid a visit to Chernivtsi, a charming, bustling college town a university campus that's a UNESCO World Heritage site. And on My Favorite Trip, New York correspondent Deepti Hajela reports on a visit to Antarctica.

Associated Press News Director Peter Prengaman, newly relocated from South America to Phoenix, grabs his flashlight, black light and salad tongs — and indulges a longtime fascination with scorpions on a hunt in an Arizona state park. On My Favorite Trip, Bishop Briggs on Hong Kong.

A year ago, the Lonely Planet guide called Sri Lanka the place to go in 2019. We check in with AP New Delhi correspondent Emily Schmall on the tea plantations, the trains, the elephants, the beaches -- and the aftermath of the Easter Sunday bombings in the commercial capital of Colombo. Plus: In the spot where we usually do My Favorite Trip, we'll look at a new survey of what kind of behavior travelers find acceptable and not acceptable on board a jetliner. Spoiler alert: we don't care for snakes on a plane.

Looking for a little thing -- or a big thing -- for the traveler on your shopping list? Our guest experts on holiday gifts are Mike and Anne Howard, who have been on the world's longest honeymoon since 2012. On My Favorite Trip: Actor Tim Dolan, who described his Broadway theater walking tour business a couple of weeks ago, tells us about a special day off from the cruise ship where he was working.

A memorial to the victims of racial terror lynchings is attracting new visitors to Montgomery, Alabama. In this episode of the Associated Press Travel podcast "Get Outta Here," AP Travel editor Beth Harpaz visits the city to see the memorial and a new museum dedicated to the legacy of slavery and segregation. You'll hear from visitors who drove across the country to be there for the opening, and you'll hear what Ava DuVernay and others have to say about it. The podcast also explores some of Montgomery's other incredible civil rights history, including the arrest of Rosa Parks, the Montgomery bus boycott, the Freedom Rides and the parsonage where a young minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., became the leader of a movement, virtually overnight.

Spare time is something actors tend to have a lot of. In his spare time, actor Tim Dolan has created a Broadway walking tour company, Broadway Up Close, which takes visitors around the theater district. Recently, after years of entreaties, he's been able to add a tour that shows the magic of the theater from inside Broadway's oldest playhouse. Plus: this week's My Favorite Trip features Broadway star Rebeca Luker.

Hong Kong has been wracked by demonstrations for the last six months. The number of visitors has been cut sharply. Precautions are in order if you travel, but there are also large areas of the territory untouched by protests. AP correspondent John Leicester, back from a reporting trip to Hong Kong, describes what made him fall in love with the place. On My Favorite Trip, a screenwriter visits with Dian Fossey's Gorilllas in the Mist

If your friends and family are unavailable to travel with you, do you go anyway? If you're Courtney Bonnell, an editor in the AP's Phoenix bureau, and the destination is Barcelona, you do. She returns with an architecture-heavy travelogue of the Catalonian capital, and some advice for solo travelers. And on My Favorite Trip, actress and lifestyle brand Jane Seymour lives it up on the road with her grown children.

It is the 500th anniversary of the founding of Havana, and despite White House moves to keep U.S. residents from going, it's still legal for Americans to visit Cuba, and, reports Michael Weissenstein, the Associated Press news director for the Caribbean, well worth the effort. On My Favorite Trip: a tourist's reminiscence about a Cuba tour.

The 178-year old British tour operator Thomas Cook collapsed suddenly last month, scrambling travel plans for tens of thousands of travelers around the world. AP London correspondent Charles de Ledesma turns out to have been one of them. He and his wife left for southern Greece on a Cook flight just before the failure. He talks about his adventures, both in Greece and in getting the flight back two weeks later. On My Favorite Trip, we talk about the phenomenon of mystery travel, with a satisfied customer.

Associated Press photographer and photo assignment editor Blair Raughley spends a lot of her time on red carpets at premieres and awards shows in Los Angeles. But Blair was bitten by the travel bug at a very young age, and she shares three of her top destinations. Plus she's got some pointers on how to make our vacation photos better than the dark smudges we too often bring back. And on My Favorite Trip, AP sportswriter Paul Newberry pays a visit to The Sasquatch Experience in northwest Georgia.

Since Associated Press video editor Nicole Evatt was posted to Bangkok last year, she and her husband have spent many weekends on jaunts away from the capital, discovering hidden beaches, quiet hiking trails and stunning temples away from the capital — and, in some cases, away from the crowds. On My Favorite Trip, host Warren Levinson talks about a fondly remembered moment at the Winter Olympics in Italy in 2006.

Documentarian Ken Burns (The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz) turned his lens on the history of country music, coming away with a 16-hour epic that aired on PBS last month. AP entertainment writer Kristin Hall was inspired to do a survey of locations that have inspired some of the most familiar songs in American music, and we go on a quick tour. On My Favorite Trip, the beauty moguls Huda and Mona Kattan report on the wonders of living in Dubai.