The NYC subway has a bit of a learning curve, but it really isn't that bad. People are pretty understanding about non-locals being confused and will answer questions readily, and pretty much the worst case scenario is that you accidentally catch an express train, miss the stop you were shooting for, and have to go across to the other platform to go a few stops back in the other direction. Being unwilling to even try is just baby brained, especially for a "travel journalist."

Oh she's a "travel journalist" who almost exclusively does cruises and Disney resorts. That makes more sense.

Ilive in a part of Florida where public transit isn't really a thing, so learning how to ride

IN FLORIDA ONLY UNTOUCHABLES USE PUBLIC TRANSIT AND LEARNING HOW TO RIDE LIKE A POOR IS HARD

how do you travel 1/3rd of the year and not know how public transit works

What in the fuck publication is uploading this Instagram post + diary entry ass article?

Motorcyclists have a point when they call carbrains cagers. It should be a more widely adopted term.

She seems very attached to normal human being life.

I’ll bet in the million times she’s gone to Disney she hasn’t ridden the Fkn monorail either.

So she's a travel columnist and she doesn't do the thing the people do where she travels?

Medieval peasant brain on full display.

tbf the nyc subway is extremely convoluted and unintuitive to use compared to more civilized metros, lots of arcane rules like "only the first 3 cars can fit in this station so if you want to get off there you better remember where in the train you are" or "trains with prime numbers only stop at every other station during rush hour" which are never posted anywhere. It's like the least beginner-friendly metro of any on earth, even ones where the beginner doesn't speak the local language.

that said it's still not that hard, you buy a ticket, you try to get on the right train, and worst-case you end up 20 blocks away from your destination and try again

You spend over 25% of the year traveling... And you've never gone somewhere with lots of public transit? Ok not NYC which is one of few transit systems in the US that's worth anything... But what never big cities in... Europe? Asia? Atleast to pass through em for a few days if most of your travel is rural (which I doubt).

Just going to Tokyo and only taking the taxi.

Or what she just goes to LA like 20 times a year?

It's understandable to be confused by the strange commercialized transit scheme in New York. Probably not as understandable to be an adult and not know how to read a map but that's the education system's failure, not a moral failure.