For the longest time, my college football reporting team had a game. We’d try to plan trips with a purpose and see if we could get them expensed. It was an exercise in story selection as much as anything, and it kept us poking around at far-flung or out-of-the-way places, even if we never traveled there.
Mine was sending a reporter to American Samoa with Joe Salavea’a for a recruiting story, which California Sunday ended up doing better than anyone could dream. Most involved far-off tropical locations. The one thing we all agreed on was finding a reason to get to Hawaii.