Key West is a coral island at the southernmost end of Florida, about four miles long and a mile wide, 130 miles southwest of Miami at the end of the Overseas Highway and closer to Cuba, 95 miles off, than to Miami. Duval Street runs the width of the island from the Gulf side to…
Category: North America
Indianapolis to San José del Cabo, Mexico (IND → SJD)
San José del Cabo is the quieter end of Los Cabos, about 20 miles northeast of Cabo San Lucas on a shallow bay of the Sea of Cortez, with an estuary where the Río San José meets the sea. The historic center is the town’s draw, and the same airport, Los Cabos International, serves both…
Indianapolis to Portland, Oregon (IND → PDX)
Portland straddles the Willamette just above where it meets the Columbia, and on a clear day Mount Hood and Mount St. Helens sit on the horizon. Powell’s Books, the rose gardens in Washington Park, the food carts and the breweries are what a first visit is made of. The airport is about ten miles northeast…
Indianapolis to San Jose, Costa Rica (IND → SJO)
San José sits in the middle of Costa Rica’s Central Valley at about 3,400 feet. The National Theater is the finest historic building in the capital, and the Mercado Central is where the city eats. The airport, Juan Santamaría, is in Alajuela, about 14 miles from downtown, and the city is the country’s transport hub.…
Indianapolis to Honolulu, Hawaii (IND → HNL)
Honolulu is on the southeast coast of Oahu. Waikiki, the tourist district, runs between the Ala Wai Canal and the ocean with Diamond Head at its end, and Pearl Harbor is on the island’s western side. The airport sits west of downtown and Waikiki. The airport’s route map doesn’t list a nonstop between Indianapolis and…
Indianapolis to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (IND → PUJ)
Punta Cana is the eastern tip of the Dominican Republic, where the Caribbean meets the Atlantic, and the resorts line a coast that runs about 60 miles from Uvero Alto and Macao down through Bávaro. Nearly everything here is a large all-inclusive on the beach. The airport is about two miles inland on the highway…
Indianapolis to Toronto, Canada (IND → YYZ)
Toronto sits on a harbor on the northwest shore of Lake Ontario, with the CN Tower over downtown and the old whisky works turned into the Distillery District. Pearson airport is about 12 miles northwest of downtown, in Mississauga. Toronto has a seasonal nonstop from Indianapolis, and none of the itineraries priced on October 9…
Indianapolis to Liberia, Costa Rica (IND → LIR)
Liberia is the town you fly into for Costa Rica’s Pacific beaches: Playa del Coco, Playa Hermosa, Tamarindo and the Papagayo Peninsula are all reached from here, and Rincón de la Vieja volcano and its hot springs are just northeast of town. The airport is eight miles west of the city on the road to…
Indianapolis to Montreal, Canada (IND → YUL)
Montreal is an island city where the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa rivers meet, named for Mount Royal, the three-peaked hill in the middle of it. French is the official language, and Old Montreal keeps colonial buildings going back to the late 1600s. The airport, Montréal–Trudeau, is nine miles west of downtown. The airport’s route map…
Indianapolis to Oaxaca, Mexico (IND → OAX)
Oaxaca sits in a valley at about 5,100 feet, and its historic center is a UNESCO World Heritage site, with the ruins of Monte Albán on the ridge just outside town under the same listing. This is Mexico’s food city: the moles, tlayudas and mezcal come from here, and the Guelaguetza fills July. The airport…