Drivers entering Manhattan south of 60th Street will pay extra tolls as part of a pricing plan aimed at reducing congestion and improving air quality. Source: Drivers in New York…
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“Travel experiences you can only enjoy while you’re young”
Travel experiences you can only enjoy while you’re young | CNN The above CNN articles covers travel discounts available only to those in their 20s, and visa/work options only available…
Continue readingOut of touch: “The Case Against Travel”
Prof. Agnes Callard writes a column for The New Yorker asserting that most people do not learn much from their travels, suggesting travel is therefore not good. She, herself is a global elitist, having been born abroad, studied abroad (multiple times), lived abroad (multiple times), and organized conferences abroad, and from her own words and CV, has done much international travel. But that was okay because she came back “transformed”, unlike the unwashed masses that we permit to travel today.
Good grief. This is academic intellectualism in 2023.
Continue readingAutomation: Hotel self check in
This was not the first hotel self check in that I have used – but this one was fully digital. You enter your confirmation number and last name to confirm…
Continue readingExpedia and Booking.com own most all of the online travel web sites
Although dozens of travel-booking websites seem to fight one another for our travel dollars, what looks like healthy competition is actually an illusion. Agoda, Booking.com, Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotwire, Kayak, Momondo,…
Continue readingToo much money? Too much tourism? Tourism as entertainment?
“Extreme tourism” is a $300 billion/year business now, and is expected to reach $1 trillion per year. This seems more like entertainment than what I think of as travel, but it is what it is.
Continue readingChairman Xi Jinping says people need to travel more
Travel enhances understanding and develops new ways of viewing problems and identifying solutions.
Continue readingAmericans who moved to Portugal are leaving, says news report
Claims that bureaucracy and rising costs have discouraged expats that moved to Portugal. Reality: There were never really that many Americans who moved to Portugal.
Continue readingAustralia’s immigrant age discrimination is intense
Several countries practice intense age discrimination towards immigrants. Australia has told a British couple in their 50s that they are now too old to apply for permanent residency and must leave Australia, even though they lived there for 8 years. Australia bans residency applications for those over age 45.
Continue readingAirports: Went through SeaTac yesterday, chaos and meltdown
SeaTac Airport, or the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Washington State, was in what is apparently its normal state of chaos and disarray each morning. We flew in to SeaTac late…
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