title: Today I Saw
category: travel
content: |

    <p>A size comparison between a Boeing 737-300 and a Boeing 777.</p>

    <p>A young woman at O'Hare, wearing a "Virginia is for Lovers"
    shirt, sobbing as she talked on her mobile phone.</p>

    <p>An MD-80 stay in the air for four hours.</p>

    <p>Lake Erie, sort of.</p>

    <p>Customs.</p>

    <p>A fixed-price cab fare.</p>

    <p>An unexceptional Caesar salad.</p>