To the editor: In her op-ed about the glories of travel, writer Lisa Niver laments lost luggage, missed flights and LAX. Our fragile planet is so compromised by human-caused climate chaos that we can no longer afford to gallivant around the world on airplanes without further dire consequences. The kind of air travel Niver suggests is energy-intensive and dependent on …
It is Saturday, Dec. 21. In an op-ed column, Robin Abcarian raises alarm over an effort by RFK Jr.’s close advisor two years ago to cancel the polio vaccine and speaks with a survivor of the illness that, prior to the 1950s, often killed or disabled children. In another op-ed piece, writer Susan Hall tells of her son’s productive, “enriched” …
As an L.A. native and a professional traveler, I know getting a ride to LAX is rarely fun. What keeps me going — even more than opportunities to, say, swim with stingless jellyfish in Kakaban Island, Indonesia, or see a 380-foot Buddha statue near Monywa, Myanmar — is that nothing quite compares to the magic of unexpected connections that travel …
