“There’s the TV, “ proprietor Matthew King pointed out as he showed me my suite. “Please don’t spend time in here watching it.” People travel for different reasons. If the primary goal of your travels is to find someplace new to stream movies, surf the web or just lie around and do nothing, La Belle…
It’s a quintessential New Orleans’ evening. The fog is rolling in off the Mississippi River obscuring the ghosts of long-dead scoundrels and thieves in the mist. Andrew Jackson on his trusty steed rises above the murk in Jackson Square. The neon lights of Bourbon Street beckon. And I’m standing next to the streetcar tracks waiting for…
Answering customer service phone calls gets to be a monotonous bore after a while. Way back in 1990-something I had the opportunity to answer the calls for American Family Publishers, the magazine wholesaler that spokesman Ed McMahon gleefully exclaimed offered customers the unbelievable chance to win 10 MILLION DOLLARS!!!* (*If they had and returned the…