NEWS ITEM: Campbell High School teacher Corey Rosenlee currently conducts classes with his lights off because of the heat. About 400 students and staff from the Ewa school [on the Island of Oahu] plan to march at the state Capitol tomorrow to ask lawmakers to set aside money for air conditioners. They are even bringing…
The arrival of Daylight Savings Time is normally a sure sign of Spring. Not this year … at least not in much of the Midwest, which has been hit by another huge snowstorm. CNN reports this morning that the Cleveland airport, Hopkins International, was buried in snow yesterday and had to shut down altogether. Hopkins…
A freelance writer friend of mine, who relocated to Bangkok several years back, emails every so often whenever he has anything related to train travel to pass along. One of his assignments included a 12-hour train ride that crossed through a part of Cambodia that had been infiltrated by insurgents and where there had been…
The Empire Builder has become Amtrak’s premier long-distance train, running daily in both directions between Chicago and either Seattle or Portland. Almost a full day is spent crossing Montana where scenes like this keep passing by your little living room window. Now doesn’t this beat traveling at 30,000 feet?