In Defense of Security Theater (Sorta)

I travel often, and until relatively recently I was doing over 100,000 miles a year. I’ve cut back a lot because my jobs have changed and I felt bad about my...

Unsolicited Testimonial: LimoLiner

What It Is : LimoLiner is an executive-class bus service from New York to Boston (or vice versa) that gets you from the center of one city to the other in about...

Unsolicited Testimonial: Clear Card

What It Is : The Clear card is designed for frequent travelers, to let you skip the line at airport security (You still have to go through security, of course)...

How To Visit New York: Outside Opinions

As I’ve been sharing my opinions about how to visit New York this week, I’ve been lucky enough to get some great responses from other people on the web, and to...

How to Visit New York: What You Can Skip

Okay, this is the one that’s going to get me in the most trouble: A list of the famous tourist attractions that you can safely skip when you come to New York...

It's Springtime. Paris?

If you have the particularly first-world American problem of trying to find your way Europe, and then, say needing a place to stay while in Paris, don’t worry:...

The Cities of 2006

After seeing the lists made by a number of friends , I thought it’d be fun to post my own record of the cities I visited in 2006. I believe the canonical rules...

Pity the poor tourist

From Overheard in New York , one of my all-time favorite blogs, an anecdote from tourist season . It’s funny because it’s true !

Off to Taipei

Well, in a year of many firsts, here’s another one: I’m off to Taiwan for a week and a half. I”ve never been there, so I’ll be eating a lot and trying to enjoy...

The Best Subway Stops in the World

This fantastic series of photos of subway stations really makes me appreciate mass transit in a way that I haven’t in ages. Look at Stockholm! Any space where...

The Unlikely Event

A relatively recently development in my life has been the fact that I’ve been spending a lot of time on airplanes. I’d travelled a good bit as a kid, going back...

downtime

Just a note for those who’ve emailed, I’m travelling this week and busy with other work stuff, so the Daily Links will continue to be light or nonexistent, and...