When I was a travel editor in the ’90s I would write an article every December titled “The Year in Travel.” That was the last decade of carefree travel, and my look back at the previous twelve months was always rich in the amusing and the bizarre. My last “Year in Travel” ran in 2001.
“The Bamiyan Buddha. The World Trade Center. The Mississippi Queen.
“The story of the year – prelude, climax, aftermath – is written in the names of lost tourist landmarks.”
