Destination: Tajikistan

Morning Links: Stilwell Road, the Delta Queen and More

by Michael Yessis | 01.05.09 | 8:14 AM ET

Photo by David Raterman

The amazing story of Stilwell Road— written by an anonymous Los Angeles Times writer.
Robert Reid offers some suggestions for helping struggling travelers’ destinations. Among them: An alphabet throwing contest in Rila, Bulgaria.
Passengers “run amok” on flight from England to Cuba.
Christopher Elliott finds seven videos the airlines don’t want you to see.
Gawker compiles video from a month of cruise ship disasters.
P. J. O’Rourke on Disney’s “Innoventions Dream Home,” aka the House of the Future II.
The Delta Queen: A new endangered historic site?
Student abroad and accused murderer Amanda Knox was voted woman of the year in an Italian poll. Her trial begins later this month.
The Cranky Flier remembers the airlines we lost in 2008.
The New York Times discovers buzkashi in Afghanistan. We covered it in Tajikistan in 2002 and spelled it buskaschee. What is buzkashi/buskaschee? Goat-carcass polo.