The Op-Ed Page is the New Travel Section

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Sometimes the best newspaper travel stories don’t appear in the travel section. For the third day in a row, a great travel story has appeared in the op-ed pages of either the New York Times or the Los Angeles Times. On the heels of Bob Greene’s excellent Saturday piece in the New York Times, columnist David Brooks took a break from political mudslinging Sunday with a column about flying with children. It’s not a subject that immediately brings to mind Picasso, but Brooks makes the comparison with his trademark wit.

“The final hour of the flight is aptly captured by Picasso’s painting ‘Guernica.’” Brooks writes. “Parents are strewn about in heaps, hardened air marshals are weeping under the strain, the kids look like flesh-eating Beanie Babies, and the pilots emerge to complain that because of the kids’ crying they can’t hear the air traffic controllers (this actually happened to my family).” Today in the Los Angeles Times, Emma Larkin writes about dealing with Burma Head, the sensation foreign correspondents get trying to navigate the suspicious environment of that country’s military dictatorship. Larkin is the author of “Finding George Orwell in Burma,” recently reviewed in our books section. 

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