An as-if-you-are-there video, without commentary or too many cuts, of a ride on the historic Angels Flight Railway in Los Angeles.
A ride on L.A.’s Angels Flight [WATCH]
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Spirit Airlines alleges conspiracy because it can’t pretend airfares are $9
Travel sellers are sending customers disingenuous emails about the new DOT fare quote rules. Spirit Airlines’ fear-mongering email is typical of the false victimhood that hucksters hide behind these days.
A mesmerizing HD drive through South Dakota’s Badlands
This video of Badlands National Park in South Dakota is seductive. It’s a nearly four-minute, uninterrupted shot of the driver’s view as he travels east on Badlands Loop Road (240) as it prepares to intersect with 377 near Interior, South Dakota.
Beautiful mistakes my camera made
My digital camera is an artist. It didn’t screw up my pictures in some mundane way. It inserted some wry counterpoint and some beautiful geometric juxtapositions. It elevated my own commentary into works of art that I now happily claim as my own creations.
My little YouTube video soars past 1 million views
That day, I was sick as a dog. I should have been in bed. But how often am I in Tokyo? So I walked everywhere I could. I was in the neighborhood of Shibuya, crossing in an overpass, when I saw something that astonished me.
The financial incentive for providing bad service
When businesses charge customers more for the “good” variety of their product, they are admitting their core product is substandard.
Sometimes travel delays your life’s true calling
I hate to say it, but someone should. Sometimes travel isn’t enough. I know I have made travel, and the discussion of how anyone can do it, one of the central themes of the last 15 years of my life. And the world of magazines, blogs, and Twitter encourage me daily to maintain that. My… Read more »
$600 a night and not a drop to drink
On the first day of this month, the New York nightmare happened to me. The apartment beneath me caught fire. The girl who lives there wasn’t at home, but I’m lucky I was, because I had just returned from three weeks away. I’m fortunate my apartment wasn’t empty, because I smelled the smoke, then I… Read more »
Mount Rushmore souvenirs that don’t look like Mount Rushmore
Girl, you know it’s true. Mount Rushmore is empty-calorie patriotism, but it’s pretty. Local concerns overbuilt the amenities so much in the 1990s so that they’re still paying them off. Merely parking a car costs $11. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum took extreme care in rendering his four subjects accurately, but the piles of tourist junk hawked… Read more »
Minnesota State Fair: see all the foods on a stick
I visited the Minnesota State Fair in St. Paul and thinking of you, of course, I had my camera with me. I created this kind cool, kinda quiltlike portrait of what it’s like to go, with a special emphasis on all the many foods on a stick you can find there. And, oh yes, there… Read more »