A requiem for the pickup truck

Filed Under (World Travel) by Admin on 09-03-2009


Toll 43 crash, originally uploaded by Scott Beveridge.

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Best Craft Brews at US Airports

Filed Under (Travel Babel) by Admin on 09-03-2009

CheapFlights.com compiles its top 20 list of US airports for beer drinkers

Being a wine drinker, I was cheered sometime ago when Vino Volo, a chain of upscale wine bars, was rumored to be considering an outlet at Denver International Airport. It hasn’t happened yet, and the little chain has only established outposts at nine US airports (Sacramento, Seattle/Tacoma, San Antonio, Detroit and five in the Middle Atlantic). One is in the American Airlines Terminal at New York’s JFK, but I sure wish there were one in the airport’s main international terminal. I flew to Cairo recently on Egyptair, an alcohol-free carrier, and I certainly wish I had been able to sip a glass of wine better than what the sports bar nearest to my gate poured.

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