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The Occidental Tourist
Take a trip to the dark side of a destination with the Occidental Tourist. Whether it's smoking bans at airports or the commercialization of America's downtowns, the Tourist has it covered. Here are his columns from 2000.
Sleep
Easy
How to catch some Zs on a trip
Business
Travel Hell
This is as good as it gets
Revenge
of the CVBs
The Tourist goes surfing
Useless
CVBs?
Discovering what they're good for
Slamming
Back
Readers support the Tourist
Confronting
Readers
Challenging the Tourist's decisions
Getting
Off
Avoiding even more crowds
Off-Season
Travel
How the Tourist avoids the crowds
Forget
It, Jake
Visits to each coast tick the Tourist off
Making
a Scene
Getting into an argument
Disney
Feedback
The Tourist turns his column over ... sort
of
More
Odd Museums
The Tourist checks out even more exhibits
Weird
Museums
The Tourist checks out odd exhibits
How
to Complain
The Tourist gets what he wants
Complain
Smart
Getting you point across can be a matter
of style
Tipping
Tips
The Tourist knows gratuities
Come on Ride
the Train
Readers react to Acela tirade
Familiar
Vacations
More on traveling with the kids
Family
Business
Work and fun while traveling
Strange
Shows
More odd conventions
Strange
Conventions
The Tourist scopes out odd powwows
More
Mail
Readers respond to the Occ
Mail
Call
Readers react to the Tourist
Better
By Rail
Acela offers alternative to air
Train
Solution?
There's gotta be a better way than flying
Strike
Two
The Tourist got more game
Baseball
Trips
The Tourist takes us out to the ballgame
Little
Easy
The end of a visit to New Orleans
Disney,
La.?
The Tourist returns to New Orleans
More
Magic
The Tourist finishes his Disney tirade
Magic
Primer
The Tourist offers more Disney insights
Doing
Disney
The Tourist takes his kid to Florida
Stress
Relief
Gadgets and programs for relaxing on the
road
Don't
Stress!
How to avoid travel tensions
More Relatives
The Tourist returns for more family fun
Relatively,
Travel
The Tourist looks to family for travel on
the cheap
More
Hotel Horrors
It gets even worse for these unfortunate
readers
Hotel Horrors
And you thought your last stay was bad
Easy
E-Mail
Getting wired is simple
E-Mail
Shocker
Checking messages from the road
