Category Archives: Travel
Shapeshifting airline seats
San Francisco Weekend
This might be the best trip I ever took. Three days in San Francisco. Mostly in the North Beach section where I stayed in a wonderful B&B. My pal Jamie Nelson (a native) showed me around the first day and I just drifted around after that. I had been to SF before but never got far from downtown or the tourist spots. This trip was mostly spent in the neighborhood.
I think I’ve finally learned how to travel (for me): No more than 3 days on the ground; two days for getting there and back; no flight longer than 3 hours.
San Francisco Street Art
My thanks to Jamie Nelson for a delightful tour of the Mission District. Would never have found these on my own. (Starts several images into this group of pix)
The race to build a better business class
Probably my heightened awareness, but I’m seeing stories like this every time I log on. Airlines are racing to find a way to make business class seats more appealing. I found this NYT story especially interesting (and informative).
Lufthansa has a new business-class seat that can be yours for about $5,000 if you are traveling round trip from Frankfurt to New York. (Yeah, I think I’d pay that assuming I have the money)
Why so expensive? The story does a good job of explaining that, including:
“Each seat is hand-made and cost as much as a luxury car to produce. Business. First Class seats can cost between $250K and $500K.”