There was a day back in 2022 when San Salvador had 62 murders. We didn't change hotels, but I didn't stray far from the hotel and mall area for a while. (Last year they barely had 100 in the whole country for the whole year, so it's cleaned up a lot.)

There was a murder two weeks ago in Hell's Kitchen 3 blocks from our Manhattan hotel. The healthcare CEO was murdered less than a block from our old Manhattan hotel. A guy was shot in the head at the Redondo Beach pier last year, across the street from our hotel.

Fifteen people were murdered a couple blocks from our New Orleans hotel two weeks ago.

Yet I still have no appetite to spend every layover at the field hotel.