Channeling Heidi at Zurich Airport
Posted on June 10, 2011 - Filed Under Video, Airlines, Places, Switzerland | Leave a Comment
At Zurich airport, I wondered about a sign on the shuttle train track pointing to “Heidi.” Was there a stop called “Heidi”? The door closed and I heard, moos, cowbells, yodeling, then Heidi, in her milkmaid outfit, flickering on the tunnel wall like a schnapps-induced dream or a lead up to a porn flick. Passengers [...]
Read More..>>Kayak Interactive Chart: The Cost of Flying Anywhere
Posted on January 31, 2011 - Filed Under Airlines | Leave a Comment
Airfare aggregator Kayak has put up an interactive chart predicting airfares from where you are to anywhere in the world. It is rough, of course, and doesn’t take into account last minute sales, but it should give you a good idea of what it costs to fly…anywhere.
Read More..>>American Cheese
Posted on July 13, 2007 - Filed Under Airlines, Culture, Food & Wine, Misc. | Leave a Comment
Maybe it reveals me as the pious food snob that I am, but today, in a Continental jet wafting over Winnemucca I stare at a sealed, steamed-up baggie labeled “Pierre Creations: Charbroiled Beef With American Cheese†wondering just what it would taste like. First, I was stunned to get a meal on a plane, the [...]
Read More..>>Where’s The Kibbles: Why We Rate Cat Food Over Air Travel
Posted on May 24, 2007 - Filed Under Video, Airlines, News | Leave a Comment
Cats, as you are well aware, know more than we do. I asked both of our cats, Max and Moritz, about that and they responded with their inscrutable “I don’t suffer fools” look. Every time I travel, Max plants himself inside of my open suitcase marking my black sweaters with tufts of fuzz while Moritz [...]
2007:A Baggage Odyssey
Posted on February 9, 2007 - Filed Under Airlines, Audio, News, Travel Biz | Leave a Comment
It is one of the best uses of music in a movie ever. In Stanley Kubrik’s classic “2001: A Space Odyssey, a bunch of crunky old rocket ships drift around space waltzing to the Blue Danube. Why does that make me think of airline baggage: “Look, there’s a flaming chunk of Samsonite reentering the atmosphere… [...]
