Note: This piece originally appeared in my newsletter. One of my first weeks in the garden last year, I walked in and saw a group of half a dozen older gentlemen sitting around the long table. From a distance, I noted…
“The Tide,” Norfolk, Virginia’s light rail system, has been called “The Worst Light Rail System in the U.S.” I rode the Tide myself when I visited friends who live in the Hampton Roads area, so I got to see some…
Amtrak has had issues from the day it formed, decades before I was born. So in some ways, Amtrak isn’t in any more “trouble” than that day, when Congress created it to pick up the pieces of failing private rail…
For two years, I lived without a lease and without a car. I traveled to over a dozen countries and two dozen cities, working virtually. I’ve put in full workdays on long Amtrak rides (or much worse, Greyhound buses.) I’ve…
I’m not an urban planner. I didn’t go to school for it and I don’t plan to. Yet, I’ve become fascinated with how our built environment impacts our lives. And that’s not something I think anybody needs a degree to…
AFFILIATE DISCLOSURE: This article contains affiliate links. If you book through them, I earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you. The U.S. is not known for its effective public transportation (understatement of the century.) Sadly, that extends…
This article contains MAJOR SPOILERS for Suzanne Collins’s new book, Sunrise on the Reaping. Sunrise on the Reaping takes us back 24 years before the events of the first Hunger Games book, to Haymitch Abernathy’s games. I ripped through it…