Category Archives: Travel

I find myself conflicted when it comes to amenity kits on airplanes…they serve an important purpose but are objectively quite wasteful in many cases. As airlines give lip service to environmental concern, amenity kits represent the greatest tension between...

When a flight attendant blocked a man from using the lavatory as the aircraft was on final descent, the man responded by dropping his trousers and defecating on the floor of the forward galley. But what he did after...

Earlier, I wrote about how to best avoid crowds when visiting Angkor Wat in Cambodia. The millions of visitors who flock to the ancient Khmer capital city are a poignant reminder that a UNESCO World Heritage designation can be...

Sitting next to a smelly seatmate on a flight is a delicate issue, but if your seatmate fails the basic hygiene test, you should feel free to speak up and either move or have the offending passenger (re)moved. How...

How do you deal with a moron who thinks that he is not only entitled to the legroom under his seat, but also the legroom in front of your seat too? When you buy an airline ticket, you are...

I recently wrote about the new trend of “rawdogging” on flights. However, numerous doctors have come forward to advise against the practice. What could be wrong with sitting in solitude? Plenty, as it turns out… Doctors: Rawdogging On Flights...

From a dimension of travel I simply do not understand comes the concept of reserving pool chairs and the insanity of lining up like a Black Friday Walmart sale to reserve them at the crack of dawn or in...

My birthday turned out to be a rather pathetic comedy of errors at London Heathrow, though I learned a bit in the process and can only really laugh about it at this point. Happy Birthday To Me, Alone At...

Let me start with a confession. I’m bad with names. Utterly terrible. Odds are that five minutes after meeting a new first officer I’ve forgotten their name already. I can remember a lot of other details without issue, but...

Last week, Matthew wrote about an American Airlines flight on which in the midst of an emergency evacuation there were multiple passengers refusing to follow crew commands. In recent years, society has tended to focus an increasing amount of...