The Paris Summer Olympics roll along, and so are the teams of the USA.    Women's gymnastics team , overcame ailing legs, illnesses, falls and twisties to rather easily win the Gold medal. Men's gymnastics team  won a medal, bronze, for the first time in 16 years. Good ethnic mix on both teams.  In no other event will you see such close team camaraderie, and hugs. Men's soccer team , for the first time in 24 years, reached the knockout round.  They face Morocco at 9AM EDT on Friday, August 2. Both women's and men's volleyball teams look to make the next round. Katie Ledecky  coasted to victory in the 1500 meter swim, topping her Olympic mark of Tokyo by 5 seconds, finishing 10 seconds before the silver medalist, winning her 8th gold medal, the most in swimming, with Jenny Thompson. The most stunning USA victory, maybe ever, was in women's rugby, where they won the bronze medal match over heavily favored Australia.  First medal in rugby for the U.S. since the Par

  A few postings ago, I was musing on how travel and movies are related.  For example: I enjoy those films that occur in places I have visited. Sometimes, those movies allow me to live vicariously, that is, transpose myself into certain settings. Then, too, there are places I will never visit because they are too physically challenging or dangerous or not within my current need for luxury. So here are a few films that allow me to enjoy them as a safe watcher, for I would not ever want to in that location or situation. To start, I noticed there were free films from SLING on my Roku site, so I thought I'd give them a try.  I hate cold and will never again go to Russia.    Transsiberea n  appeared to be just about right.   Rotten Tomatoes  gave ratings of 91 by reviewers and 65 by audiences.  When there is a huge discrepancy between the two, I usually like audience over reviewers.  However, the awfulness factor seemed attractive so I watched this 2008 movie. Was about married American