Why So Little Travel Here in the Good Ol’ USA?

My wife returned to California from the East Coast yesterday and remarked that the plane was about half full; she and many other passengers had whole rows to themselves.  This, of course, is precisely what the transportation sector hates most: lost revenue opportunities.

It seems there are two main reasons:

1) Americans are terrified to spend money on things like summer vacations, given their fear of a deep recession driven by Trump’s tariffs and other forms of gross stupidity re: the economy.

2) Europeans would rather vacation in North Korea or South Sudan than set foot in the United States.  It’s hard to blame honest and intelligent people for wanting to avoid the United States as if it were on fire.

It’s a complete tragedy, and we have 3.5 more years to live through it.