Over the years, I suppose I’ve made the Hawaii-U.S. mainland flight 200 times. It’s five hours heading east, usually about 20 minutes more than that going the other way. Thanks to some accumulated miles, I was in first class last night on my American Airlines flight from Maui to Los Angeles. We had a pretty…
The American Airlines plane that carried me from Los Angeles to London was a Boeing 777 … and that sucker is huge! Intellectually, I already knew that, of course, but you can’t come to grips with how big it really is until you see that behemoth sitting right there on the tarmac in front of…
I was certainly impressed by several of the train stations I had occasion to see during my extensive trip across Europe and Asia last August. As is the case in the U.S., they ranged from large (make that huge) to small, classic to modern, spotlessly clean to … well, not so. As noted in my…
One of the things I enjoy about train travel is being able to see and spend time in some wonderful railroad stations. They come in all sizes and shapes, of course, but the ones that are done right are a hub for all kinds of activity – commercial, residential and everything in between. I think…