London            One iron law of ACORN travel is, “when you’re ready, get going; you never know what might be ahead of you.”  My plane from Amsterdam to London to reconnect with my roundtrip ticket home was close to 7AM on Monday morning, but it still made sense to catch an early train to the …

            London            One of our staff and I used to joke about infrastructure.  He would come back from a vacation somewhere in the UK or Europe and laud how great the infrastructure was, and I would feebly try to defend US infrastructure.  I admit that doesn’t sound much like a knee-slapping laughter, but I’ll pretend …

             New Orleans      Over the years, I’ve put a lot of miles on airplanes.  About a million and a half on United alone, along with hundreds of thousands on American and Delta, and then a bunch on random carriers around the world.   I listen and do what they say, but I also keep my …