News and notes from around the interweb:
- Saudi Arabia will allow unmarried foreign men and women to share hotel rooms and women to rent hotel rooms without a male guardian (HT: Joe Brancatelli)
- Video: gang of thieves stealing checked bags in Rome (HT: Joe Brancatelli)
- Pittsburgh airport is auctioning off 10,000 items from lost and found (including cars)
- The country of Qatar gets so hot they’re now air conditioning the outdoors (HT: Marginal Revolution)
- Airbus A380 engine catches fire.
One engine of an #Asiana #A380 was seen caught fire during fueling at ICN.
Video via weibo. pic.twitter.com/ez2SnIx1Dy— VariFlight (@VariFlight) October 18, 2019
- Amtrak would benefit from D0
- Delta CEO Ed Bastian says he books his own travel – and is flying to Denver three times in a week??
Bastion booking his own travel makes it much easier to avoid awkward gatherings at the White House, I suppose.
Good tip on the Pittsburgh auction. I think I’ll head out there yesterday and take a look!
I lost a receipt in 1998 traveling through Pittsburgh, I’ll see if it’s for sale.
Thanks for posting about this one. I was on the edge because I usually don’t like celeb memoirs but this one sounds great and thought provoking. The reality is that there are a lot of us brown skinned women who grow up isolated and I am happy to read about the experience others had in similar situations.
Oh, I also just read Flat Broke with Two Goats (I picked it because it’s the Overdrive Big Library Read right now) and did not care for it either. Mostly, I think the writer was a whiner and I didn’t feel she was sincere when she said their trouble was her fault, too. I think she wanted us to go “there, there, you couldn’t have done better” but I think she could have.