Good Morning.

Deep into summertime business - I was driving at Logan Airport yesterday.


It's a pretty sweet gig. Logan's traffic is notoriously bad and convoluted, just like the city in which it resides. So bad that the local authority provides suburban bus shuttles to outlying areas. Yankee has one of those contracts, for Framingham Logan Express.

In any case, a reasonably quiet day driving yesterday, but I was actually struck by how busy the buses were. It's normally a somewhat sleepy route, but yesterday every single trip was absolutely full. I had never seen so many international travelers, to be honest.

While nobody might be visiting the United States these days, it seems like hundreds of people are lining up to get the hell out of here, however briefly that might be.

I actually had a brief thought about how so many people could actually afford to travel internationally, but then I remembered that we could have, too. We've got a good chunk of change saved up for this summer, but we chose to travel to South Florida and on to Disney. (Which some days, sure feels like travelling to a foreign land, but I digress.)

But my biggest muse yesterday - my Cuban in-laws literally jammed everything they could into a couple of suitcases, left on a tourist visa to places unknown, and knocked on the local US Embassy's door.

Given how many travellers boarded my bus with multiple, massive, and HEAVY suitcases....I thought maybe one or two of them might be having the same idea.