Traveling ...

I hopped on a quick business trip to California yesterday, so expect slow posting here. I encountered a pleasant surprise en route -- and the fact that it was such a surprise just tells you how low travel in these United States has gone:

Continental Airlines still serves modest hot sandwiches, free, on flights long enough to warrant them -- including my connection yesterday from Houston to Los Angeles.

I rarely fly Continental -- Knoxville tends to be more a Delta spoke, if anything -- and judging by the surprised looks on others' faces when the sandwiches came out, other infrequent fliers were just as amazed.

All airlines, of course, must cut costs to the bone to survive in the post-9/11, high-fuel-cost world. Somehow, Continental found ways to cut costs that show up less to the customers on board. That resourcefulness deserves a hat-tip.