Category: Travel
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Is there anything lonelier than falling ill, alone in a foreign country?
Let’s pretend for a second that the answer isn’t yes. You throw a notebook into your backpack and check your phone for the time. A couple of hours to go before the first class of your last term. You’ve been back for all of two days, so home and your flat aren’t quite the same…
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Thinking about trains*
* Did I struggle not to make “train of thought” puns? Maybe. (Update: We’re back in the Bay Area!) Mass transit has been on my mind recently. In a piece for The New York Times, Jonathan Mahler examines the (in)famous New York subway’s deterioration and makes the case for the system’s repair and maintenance, if…
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Learning Los Angeles
Our departure from Los Angeles has been delayed a day, thanks to the arrival of 2018’s first storm. Flash flood warnings have been up all morning, and the freeway that would have brought us to Union Station — Highway 101 — lost 30 miles to water and mud. We soldiered on for a bit, trying to…
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