Dining under the train tracks: Tokyo’s Yakitori Alley
Tucked away under the tracks of Japan's famed Shinkansen in central Tokyo is a dining experience that is hard to beat: Yakitori Alley. Pull up...
Mileage Run
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Checking in: My pod at the Hotel Nihonbashi Villa
Two years ago on my visit to Japan I slept in a plywood box. It was a crude approximation of the somewhat famous "pod" hotels...
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Did I really just downgrade myself on a long haul flight?!?
I’m sitting on a United Airlines 767-300 somewhere over the Pacific Ocean right now, wondering just which screws are loose in my head today. Yeah,...
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Touring the Sao Paulo Cathedral
The São Paulo Cathedral, also known as the Catedral da Sé de São Paulo is the largest in South America. With a capacity of 8,000...
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Mexican wrestling on the streets of Sao Paulo
The Virada Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil offered up a tremendously broad range of performances. One of the most entertaining was the Mexican Wrestling matches...
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A 12 hour transit of Sao Paulo, Brazil
I thought I had planned well for my 12 hour visit to Sao Paulo, Brazil. I asked a good friend for tips on things to...
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The folly of booking a 22 minute connection
Apparently I didn’t look too closely when I was planning the six-segment trip from Newark to Seattle. Continental apparently didn’t mind too much either, as...
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A quick six hops to Seattle
There’s really nothing quick about this trip. The Pan Am Clipper could make it from New York City to Seattle faster than I will. But...
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Rain and an IDB* in Palm Springs
Maybe it was the sheer exhaustion from a month of non-stop travel and yet another pre-sunrise flight catching up with me. Maybe it was that...
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Party in the forward galley
Every now and then there are fares that attract swarms of folks out looking for miles. When a $140 round-trip transcon comes along, for example,...