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London Calling: Keep Left Against the Rail to the Way-Out

Loose Leaves column, 1st published Sunday 17 December 2000 in The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas By Ben Pollock Copyright 2000 Donrey Media Group LONDON — If it’s true you can’t really know a city in just a week’s visit, then you probably cannot fully describe it in 1,500 words. Here goes. Wednesday, Nov. 22 […]

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2001 Pulitzer nominee Travel

Travel Writers Ought to Take a Walk Like Real People

Loose Leaves, 1st run Sunday 10 December 2000 in The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas By Ben Pollock Copyright 2000 Donrey Media Group LONDON — Travel articles often are so glib: Here’s what you do, you can’t miss this, tell your travel agent to get you that. Sometimes it seems the trip journalists don’t spend […]

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Some Mondays Made for ‘DPs’ Who Can Take Them

Loose Leaves, 1st published Sunday 3 December 2000 in The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas By Ben Pollock Copyright 2000 Donrey Media Group Some Mondays need more than 24 hours. My wife is doing some work for a project in London. We decided I would join her there for Thanksgiving week. TW Express 7608 was […]

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2000 Pulitzer nominee Travel

Proposals for Drake Take Flight

Loose Leaves, 1st run Tuesday 2 February 1999 in The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas By Ben S. Pollock Copyright 1999 Donrey Media Group Love. Midway. Drake. What do these airports have in common? These fields were relegated to secondary status by progress, that is, bigger and newer nearby airports. Dallas and Chicago, homes of […]

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1993 Pulitzer nominee Travel

Jet Lag Strikes the Occidental Tourist

Mirthology column, 1st run Thursday 15 October 1992 in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette By Ben S. Pollock Copyright 1992 Ben S. Pollock Having experienced jet lag, a condition some hard-hearts believe to be psychosomatic, I now can verify that it causes misery, having made my first overseas trip. And to think I was once was a […]