My American Airlines flight from Maui was aboard my least-favorite aircraft: a Boeing 757 … a long narrow aluminum tube, with a center aisle and three seats on either side. Cramped and claustrophobic. Nevertheless, the five hours en route to Los Angeles passed quickly. Happily, I found myself seated to a nice lady from San…
I don’t know why I haven’t noticed this before, but on my recent flight from LA to Chicago I realized that there is yet another thoughtless kind of traveler contributing to the lack of friendliness in the skies. These selfish people had seats located in the back of the plane, so when general boarding began,…
A week or so ago, I posted an item about the proposal for Amtrak to increase service between San Antonio and Los Angeles. The current three-days-a-week schedule is now being provided by the venerable Sunset Limited. The new arrangement would increase that service to a daily schedule. After a reader raised a question, I re-read…
The four-hour, 275-mile drive from Los Angeles to Las Vegas is pretty awful – up through Victorville and Barstow, then on and on through lots of hot, dry nothing, often with heavy, speeding and frequently drunken traffic. For years there has been talk of high-speed trains linking those two cities. One idea is for a…