Taking the Low Road

WHAT’S ALREADY WORKING? If infidels hadn’t burned Alexandria’s library, I could say that library’s equivalent has been written about travel clothing. Yikes. EVERYONE has an opinion about which complex blend of techno-fibers, stitching styles, wicking characteristics, yadda, yadda, yadda, constitute the absolute best travel clothing. Much of their opinions are pedantic and contradictory. Almost all [...]

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YES, YOU CAN. Stroll along any UK village High Street, watching local drivers thread their way on the left side of winding, sidewalk-width “streets,” and you’ll develop a profound respect for their expertise. Oh let’s just say it: they’ll give you a whopper of an inferiority complex. Your 30 or 40 years of driving experience [...]

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THEY’RE CLEAN, RELATIVELY CHEAP, AND EFFICIENT. Live in a US city east of the Mississippi? You may want to skip this tip, since you probably already know all about it. Live west of the Mississippi? Read on. It’s likely you never, ever, ever take mass transit because it simply doesn’t exist in your part of [...]

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LET THE TOUR GROUPS GO AHEAD OF YOU. Don’t try to beat them. Trust me, they’re traveling faster than you, and they’ll flatten you when they finally catch up to you. And when 20 of them join you, even a spacious great hall can get a trifle claustrophobic. When they all crowd around the tour [...]

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