Thoughts from the Fallout of United Airlines
After United Airlines forcibly removed a passenger, we need to know the rights, and lack thereof, included with an airline ticket, and how it’s skewed heavily in the airline’s favor.
The Sites We Miss—How Not To See That Famous Castle
The best-laid plans often go awry, but perhaps they’re not the best plans anway. A planned afternoon visit to a castle turns philosophical about the real importance of travel sights.
How To Become A Travel Snob
One can see the Eiffel Tower from points all over Paris, and this is a good thing, as it adds to the background and helps your wonderful photos. And yet, ask anyone who travels a bit about actually going up the tower, including me, and you’ll probably receive a shudder, as one of the first…
After Brussels and Paris (and Madrid and London), everyone is asking: Is traveling to Europe safe?
After recent terrorist attacks, everyone is asking “Is Europe safe?” Let’s examine how a destination is safe or not and what strange advice experts give.
We Have slowly Lost Our Ability To Choose A Seat On The Airplane
En guard. The audacious practice of airlines charging their valuable customers to choose a seat is slowly spreading. The airlines, nomenclature-meisters all, call this trend “unbundling”, charging for things that used to be standard. Once upon a time, in an industry far, far away, the privileged purchaser of an airplane trip could count on the…