Four articles in the Times caught my attention this morning.
A short one announcing Singapore Airlines's deal to stay overnight in the tip of the Malaysian peninsula for as low as $1... conceived initially for long layovers at the Singapore airport, but quickly understood as a great new way of bringing people to visit. Still in the travel section another article on travelers accommodation in India, where guest rooms in private homes compensate the dismally short supply of hotels in the market. Surprising for me were the statistics: "the entire country has only about 130,000 rooms in branded hotels -- some 10,000 less than Las Vegas." Surely Las Vegas is not the typical city and exhibits excess capacity, but India... is a very large country!
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Moving down in the travel section, comes an article about the fall foliage. In Vermont, as in all of New England, the colorful season is on. When trying to describe the phenomenon, which I was unaware of in terms of color variation at least, I always fall short of words. That's why the following sound accurate: "And then there were the trees, a patchwork of scarlet, orange and yellow that transformed a vista into something so perfect it almost didn’t look real."
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The last article is also on travel, but this time, commuter travel out of New York city. Apparently, every train (not subway) starting at any of the city's train stations (Grand Central, Penn, or the Brooklyn terminal) actually leaves the platform one minute after the official schedule. The "new york minute" can be made up for in subsequent stations and the train will still be on time during its complete route. Though the policy has been in place for a long time, it has not been publicized, neither has it been openly acknowledged... lest everyone knows and starts getting to the train late. Having more information is almost always better than having less.
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