Several weeks ago I wrote a travel rant about people constantly saying, “Have a good one.” My premise was to have a good WHAT? Well, there’s something else that pisses me off just as much and I heard it repeatedly and often this past week. Sit back, crack open a Yoo Hoo, open a...
What do you call it when you fly across a third of the country…and it takes you just as long, if not longer to be driven into the city? It’s called New York, that’s what. As exciting as New York is, and don’t get me wrong, it’s one of the most incredible places on...
Oh, we told you this was going ot happen. How could it not? Opportunistic pricing has been around ever since transportation was created. (Romans once raised the price of chariot rides due to the rising price of slave labor.) Delta Airlines announced this morning that it was going to hike fares $10 to help...
We’re not talking politics this time, we’re talking photography. During our tour of Washington, one of the biggest disappointments was the reflecting pools both by the nation’s capitol and the Lincoln Memorial. The one by the Lincoln Memorial, the very spot where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I have a dream speech” and...
You can really tell it’s time to plan a summer vacation; gasoline prices are expected to exceed $5 per gallon and the airlines have substantially boosted their already usury-law-exceeding charges for checked baggage. There’s an old Yiddish word – goniff. The literal translation is “thief.” That said, I have the perfect solution to teach...
After a series of recent incidents where airplanes attempting to land couldn’t get in touch with air traffic controllers because they were snoozing, the FAA announced that no one will sleep alone anymore. The FAA is hiring 27 more controllers to ensure any tower that has an overnight shift, has two people working on...
You’ve got to have heard it by now. The TSA groped a 6-year-old and then issued a statement that “hey, we did the right thing.” Security theater continues. Say what you will about the dolts that protect us from ourselves, but they’re not letting anyone get by without a good pat down. Sure, the...
There are lots of ways to figure out the meanest airline — if there even is such a thing — but Yahoo Travel has created some sort of formula to make it official. Delta Airlines is the meanest in the bunch — though, because its the biggest — it’s likely to have the most...
Yesterday I returned home from a press event in Washington and was waiting for the tram to arrive to take me to the center terminal stop at Delta Air Lines’ McNamara Terminal in Detroit. The terminal is a mile long and the main stop is…you guessed it, Euclid…a half-mile. As the train stopped and...
Before the worldwide pussification of America, there was a time when if you wanted a drink of water you either turned on the sink, dipped a bucket into a well or cupped your hands in a cool clean mountain stream (never once thinking that 30 yards upstream some Elk with diarrhea is standing in...
