I’m usually too busy to watch television, so it’s perhaps not surprising I didn’t know who Samantha Brown was, when a friend told me she had her dream job. I may be the only travel addict who was not aware that Brown hosts a popular show on the Travel Channel chronicling her peripatetic pursuits, [...]
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The Things You Carry
Spirit Airlines will become the first carrier in U.S. history to charge fliers for putting carry-on bags into its overhead storage bins when it institutes its new fee schedule on August 1, 2010. If this new plan succeeds, other airlines are sure to follow with their own set of fees for using an overhead storage [...]
Please Don’t Banish Bumpy Roads
I like bumpy roads. Not the ones permeated with potholes big enough to break an axle or skew tires out of alignment, but the “washboard” ones that make your teeth rattle, your words vibrate, and your backside tingle when you drive over them.
I like bumpy roads because they force us to slow down. Jiggling along [...]
