For a full list of today's Salon Travel stories, go to the Travel home page. Sometimes even high-flying airline pilots turn out to have feet of clay.
People forget the darnedest things in London's hotels.
The twine that binds A Minnesota town honors the mother of all twine balls. In New Mexico's Gila River, we fished our waters dry. How a windswept, bullet hole-ridden telephone became a legend in its own time. Thanks to Internet cowboy Godfrey Daniels, the windswept, bullet hole-ridden booth, once used solely by ranchers and miners, is now famous. Daniels rode home and created a Web site, cleverly titled The Mojave Phone Booth Site.