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Every itinerary has a weakest link, and it is almost never the flight you worried about. It is the ninety minutes between two of them, at an airport you have never been to, on a day when the first aircraft pushes…
A search page shows you a ninety-minute flight and a five-hour train and the decision looks made. It isn't, because those two numbers are measuring different things. One of them is the time an aircraft spends in the air. The other…
A bag you can carry up two flights of stairs without stopping is a different bag from one you can wheel across an airport. Most packing advice never makes that distinction, which is why so much of it produces a suitcase…
The bag is the easy part. You can pack a bag in an hour on the night before and it will be fine. What cannot be done the night before is everything that depends on somebody else moving at their own…
The first long trip with a small child usually goes wrong in a way nobody warned you about. Not the flight, which everybody dreads and which is often survivable. The third day, when two late nights and a missed nap have…