travel

I hopped on a quick business trip to California yesterday, so expect slow posting here. I encountered a pleasant surprise en route -- and the fact that it was such a surprise just tells you how low travel in these United States has gone:

Continental Airlines still serves modest hot sandwiches, free, on flights long enough to warrant them -- including my connection yesterday from Houston to Los Angeles.

I rarely fly Continental -- Knoxville tends to be more a Delta spoke, if anything -- and judging by the surprised looks on others' faces when the sandwiches came out, other infrequent fliers were just as amazed.