National Parks Week
Posted on April 17, 2012 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment
How many of you know that it is National Park Week in the US, April 21-29. Free Admission National Parks Service
Read More..>>Democracy and Debauchery
Posted on December 6, 2007 - Filed Under Audio, Culture, Misc., News, Travel Biz | Leave a Comment
Oh, we Americans are a wild and crazy bunch: toiling hard and productively, spreading democracy by day…partying hard by night. Or is it partying day and night? According to a new report on travel trends, we Yanks are binge drinking, G-string snapping “debaucherists,” longing for the eternal spring break. This report, put out by the [...]
Belgium: What Would Poirot Do?
Posted on September 21, 2007 - Filed Under Audio, Belgium, News | Leave a Comment
It looks like a case for Hercule Poirot. The Economist wants to kill off Belgium. What is the motive, what will be the instrument of death? In an editorial this week, that venerable bastion of common sense in a world of cable news banshees suggests that Belgium should be allowed to just wither away. Not [...]
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… [...]
