Stuff You Should Know About: January 2017
Welcome to “Stuff You Should Know About” – a monthly collection of travel news, tips, photos, and other odds and ends that don’t really fit in anywhere else but that I still really want to share with you. Random travel news Trump's #MuslimBan The biggest news by far this month has been Trump's ban on people from certain countries coming into the US, citing terrorism threats. This includes refugees, immigrants, and even people holding legal green cards from seven predominantly Muslim countries. (Nevermind, of course, that no one from the banned countries has committed an act of terrorism on US soil in recent decades…) Reactions to the ban have included protests at airports where people trying to enter the country were being detained. (And before you say that this has nothing to do with travel and that I should keep politics off my blog… politics and travel are VERY closely linked, and it's naive to think otherwise.) Cool travel thing of the month I get a lot of emails e...