AirportsMadeSimple™

That Anthony Bourdain is a smart one. ;)

-Hue.

It was bad enough when I told people I went to a vegetarian restaurant at the weekend but when you say the words "vegan restaurant" to someone, they generally give you one of those disdainful "glad it's you, not me" looks or make some throwaway comment about how going out for "rabbit food" is not a proper night out. I beg to differ.

By Ken Hegan for MSN

Here's some breaking (eardrum) news:

Last Thursday, an American Airlines flight left LAX in Los Angeles at 3:30 pm. The flight was bound for JFK in New York. But at 6:06 pm the plane had to make an emergency landing at Kansas City International Airport.

Apparently the flight crew was concerned about a terrorist on board.

I've always held a fascination with aviation. I'm sure it has lots to do with all the flying I did as a kid, and growing up with aircraft-obsessed cousins. I can safely say I truly enjoy the solace on a long-haul flight. I love airplane food, all packaged up in individual compartments. I love watching the cabin crew play professional Tetris in the stowage cabinets.

Be honest, do you watch them?. Well Air NewZealand is trying to change that:

Until last week, Atlanta was my favorite airport. Then I flew through Detroit. The train runs above you, in the concourse, instead of underground. But if that wasn't cool enough, walking between Concourse A and B is an adventure in itself. I could have just stood there for a long time. It's a light show set to music. Amazing.

wine country.

Located just off a quiet piazza, away from the dingy streets of Naples, Un Sorriso Integrale is like a little slice of heaven. And after eating pizza, pasta and bread for days on end, a menu filled with tofu dish after tofu dish was a sight for sore eyes!

We had a little trouble finding the right place at first, as the restaurant is not on the main plaza along the strip of eateries but instead, tucked away in a courtyard just behind them.

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

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“Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or cares, and so you shed your checkered past and your motley credentials and you face the day unarmed ... And onward we go and some day in the distant future, we will stop and turn around in astonishment to see all the places we've been and the heroes we were.”

― Garrison Keillor

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