Category Archives: Travel

Tardy No More

June 21, 2013 – 3:56 pm

School’s out for summer. The yellow school bus has been retired for the off-season, however come the fall the American icon will serve cities, suburbs, and rural communities from Alaska to Florida. Type C has been very popular with most school boards with its no frill seating to deliver ninety little bodies with year-round dependability. […]

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Moscow Taxi Touts

April 28, 2013 – 12:35 pm

New York newspapers frequently report about naive visitors paying excessive taxifares into Manhattan. The record was set by a Japanese tourist. The cab driver extorted $2500 from the hapless visitor and threatened to strand him in Harlem, if he wouldn’t cough up another $500. Things have improved at JFK, however the age-old practice of soaking […]

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Koh Tao

April 23, 2013 – 8:48 pm

In 1990 I traveled around the world. NYC-LA-HONOLULU-BIAK-AMBON-BALI-JAVA-SUMATRA-SINGAPORE-BANGKOK-NEPAL-DELHI-PARIS-LONDON-NYC The Singapore to Bangkok segment of the trip was overland and I detrained in Suranthani to catch a midnight ferry to Koh Samui. I stayed at Coral Cove for $5 and after two weeks boated over to Koh Phanghan then finally took a little boat to Koh […]

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Zai Jian Fung Wah Bye Bye

March 18, 2013 – 5:43 pm

On March 4 the mythic bus line Fung Wah was shut down by the Feds, who cited the Boston-based company’s reluctance to open their safety records to inspectors, who discovered cracks in the drive axle and engine cradle in eight of the nine buses tested in late January. The $15 bus ride between Boston and […]

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Singapore Air NO NO

January 18, 2013 – 4:06 pm

Back in the 1950s more adventurous western travelers to Singapore frequented Bugis Street to view the Pearl of the Orient’s notorious cavalcade of beautiful transvestites. The laissez-faire atmosphere of the sex entrepot was an affront to the city-state’s puritanical President and by the late 1980s Bugis Street had been sanitized of perversion and by the […]

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