New Orleans The United States under Trump and MAGA is becoming not just a rouge nation, but also an island unto itself, making travel domestically fraught for both natives and immigrants, and building walls at our borders both physically and financially. I’m not even talking about unilateral military actions, which have pushed away …
Category: Travel
The Dark Sides of Mardi Gras
New Orleans Mardi Gras is a huge tourism event for New Orleans, just as it is for Rio de Janeiro, and increasingly the entire Gulf Coast all the way to Mobile, Alabama. I’m not going to begrudge this broke-ass section of the United States a chance to breakeven or make a dollar or …
On the Tracks
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 …


