Travel
Photo: A Tiny Monument to Eminent Domain Resistance in New York City
This is part of Reason's 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the issue. The Hess Triangle is the result of an eminent domain fight that began in 1910, when New York City seized and demolished a…
I visited my ancestral homeland in Italy
This is part of Reason's 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the issue. Last year I honeymooned in Rome, which was a long day trip from the tiny 2,500-year-old village in the Campania region of Italy…
Why do Americans go to Mexico for dental care?
This is part of Reason's 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the issue. I crossed the U.S./Mexico border six times in a month in 2018, an economic refugee in my own way. While the consumer price…
How to spend 6 days in Georgian wine country
This is part of Reason's 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the issue. The people of Georgia might well be the first folks who ever got properly wine-drunk. Straddling the Promethean Caucasus…
Millau Viaduct is privately funded by tolls
This is part of Reason's 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the issue. For my 80th birthday, my wife Lou offered to plan a trip somewhere I'd always wanted to go. I chose the Millau…
Where to see ‘Lord of the Rings’ sites in New Zealand
This is part of Reason's 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the issue. It's little surprise that many libertarians count The Lord of the Rings among their favorite stories. J.R.R.…
Did New Orleans ever recover from Hurricane Katrina?
This is part of Reason's 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the issue. August 28, 2025, will mark 20 years since my family rushed to pack up the cars and join 1.5 million people evacuating the Gulf…
The era of private space travel has arrived
This is part of Reason's 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the issue. Looking to get really away from it all? How about 250 miles straight up and traveling at 17,500 mph away from it all? This…
Knossos presents dueling ideas of Greek history
The world's most glorious monument to fakery, outshining even Las Vegas and the Disney archipelago, is Knossos, the Greek site containing the legendary Palace of Minos. There are real ruins at this place—remnants of a…
Why do Americans hate roundabouts?
This is part of Reason's 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the issue. Americans don't agree on much, but nobody enjoys traffic. Our commutes often leave us feeling like we're going in…
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