How’s this for a schedule? Columbus has had byes two of the last three weeks — and played the week most clubs around the world were off for national team action. Now, it is off for an unprecedentedMLS road trip. It plays a game at Vancouver on Wednesday and turns around and plays at New England on Saturday. About the only solace for Crew players is they’ll rack up those frequent-flier miles:6,500 for the round trip.

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