"This summer is nuts": Travelers face soaring prices and crowded vacation spots
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Travel across the United States is booming. But it's also busting wallets.
Hotel rooms are returning to pre-pandemic pricing, up 36% on average. Gas is averaging $3.14 a gallon — the highest it's been since 2014. In some cities, it's over $5 a gallon. The cost of rental cars is up 86%. Airfares have also increased. "You have airfares going up at the rate of about 10% a week," said CBS News senior travel adviser Peter Greenberg. "There's some coach airfares in this country now that are actually more expensive than business class fares going to Europe."Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.
The knock at the door came at nighttime on Mother's Day 2008 in Oregon, where Jessica Ellis' parents lived. It was around 9:20 p.m. and his wife, Linda, was already in bed; her father Steve Ellis told CBS News, that he thought someone let their animals out — but two soldiers in Class A uniforms were standing at the door.