Episode #043 F E A T U R I N G * 1 8 2 * B O N U S * S E C O N D S Question: Can a Monopoly board be used as a guidebook? Why yes! In Atlantic City, it can. Parker Brothers first published Monopoly 75 years ago this year — it began in various forms … Read on
I’ve been calling the act of tying a sweater around one’s neck, or draping a coat over one’s shoulders as ‘Vienna style’ ever since I spent a few too many days there on a four-day visit 18 years ago. I had ended up Vienna on a Eurail-free trip across Eastern Europe 18 years ago. I had come in via Bratislava and expected to … Read on
Episode #042F E A T U R I N G * 5 0 * B O N U S * S E C O N D S It has to be said. Stack’m up: Graham Greene, Eric Newby, Jan Morris, Colin Thubron, even Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson in one corner; Mark Twain, Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, uh John Steinbeck (considering this … Read on
As co-host of the TBEX NYC event tonight, I debuted a theory: all trips can be broken down into one or more of six primary reasons why we travel. Making up, like primary colors, all blends of trips we take. A periodic table of travel elements. Here they are, in portable flashcard version: We travel to communicate. Uncle Sedgwick moved to Oregon? Go … Read on
Episode #041F E A T U R I N G * 7 9 * B O N U S * S E C O N D S Animals are going berserk of late: whales jumping, like Simon Le Bon, aboard private yachts in South Africa; bears hijacking Toyotas and ramming them into trees. Are they protesting our travel? Or just trying to tag … Read on
It’s self-indulgent and unnecessary, but to commemorate the first 40 episodes of the ’76-Second Travel Show,’ I’m doing it anyway: 76-Second Travel Show’s Greatest Hits. PUTTING THE SYSTEM ON TRIALManhattan Bridge’s 100th BirthdayI’m still steamed that the city celebrated the centennial of this iconic, overlooked bridge two months ahead of time because, essentially, the weather’s better. (Some videomakers didn’t mind.) The 76 had … Read on
