Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Foster hurried out the front door of the White House with the guests, headed toward some secret rendezvous in the West Wing, where they run the world. "Takes some adjusting," I muttered, mindful of the problems over appointments and the firing of the Travel Office personnel. "You're telling me," he replied with a rueful laugh. Remember, he was reminded, that trouble is the main business of Washington. Without controversy the city is out of work. Keep laughing. But he didn't -- as we now know...
...After packing Rowbottom and Miller around the backcountry for five weeks to avoid searches by the Turkish army, the guerrillas freed the couple last week. Rowbottom and Miller expressed relief at being released alive and unharmed. They did not indicate, however, whether they had heard the Central Asian proverb "Travel is a foretaste of hell...
...especially for wanderers smitten by places they ought to think twice about: where quaint cultures run up against armored jeeps charging through city streets, where emergency travel kits had best include not just a bottle of Lomotil but also a bulletproof vest. The surprise is not that such dangers exist but that so many of the countries where they are commonplace want you to spend your vacation there. In the relentless quest for the tourist dollar, even places like Kashmir (400 civilians killed last month) and North Korea (no casualties, but why go?) are advertising their supposed charms...
Those who respond to the call of such adventures may well return home convinced that the Central Asians didn't get their proverb quite right. Done properly, this kind of travel is no "foretaste of hell." It's the real thing...
...hills of West Virginia and Virginia, endless strings of coal hoppers of the Norfolk Southern and CSX roll toward the gargantuan coastal terminals where the cars are grabbed and rolled upside down, spilling their cargoes onto belts that pour the coal into ship holds. Those trains travel on lines first plotted and built to rush the troops of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson into Civil War battles. Confederate General William Mahone, an engineering genius, felled trees so skillfully in Virginia's Great Dismal Swamp before the war that today's trains still rush over the enduring logs...