Some good news.   Artemis II astronauts returnd home.   Remember  Suni Williams and Butch Whitmore?   They were on a 10-day NASA mission in 2024, but it took 9 months for them to finally return on March of 2025. I guess  another positive sign  is that there was a pre-peace talk meeting today between the Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Iranian officials.  Veep J.D. Vance, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner also separately met with Sharif. Both sides continue their bluffing, angling for a better negotiating position.  One in particular is Iran seeking release of $120 billion in frozen assets to occur before peace talks can begin. I've stayed at Ritz-Carltons throughout the USA, but never at the Club Level.  We upgraded in New Orleans, and similar to the Ritz-Carlton Yacht cruise we took earlier this year, I don't think the luxury was worth the cost.  Mind you, our Ritz-Carlton Club Level experience in the Orient was even more...

Our cruise continues.  Today, one of our tours.  It can be confusing, because there are various kinds of blues museums.   Go across the country, and the majority of Blues museums is in the Mississippi Delta. There was the Blues Hall of Fame Museum in Memphis. The Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi. B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola, Mississippi. Plack Prairie Blue Museum, West Point, Mississippi. Ole Miss Blues Archive, Oxford, Mississippi. Knee Deep Blues Museum, St. Louis, Missouri. National Blues Museum, St. Louis, Missouri....but this one permanently closed just this month. One more, and maybe the best, is the Gateway to the Blues Museum in Tunica County, Mississippi. Located in a rustic train depot going back to 1895. Tells how the Blues was born, and role Tunica played. Some photos. Lots of guitars. Starts with videos.  There are two steel guitars you can try to play.  The exhibition links life in the age of slaver...

Various surveys can be found ranking the ten worst years for Humanity.   Here is one from The Top Tens. #1    1939:  Nazi Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II. Few remember that Hitler declared war on Poland with the Soviet Union  The Union of Soviet Socialist Republicans first formed in 1922. How this year so high is a mystery to me. #2    1350:  The Black Death ravaged Europe, killing perhaps 50% the population.  99% of the world was in extreme poverty. #3    1941:  Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and Nazi Germany invaded ally Soviet Union.  Genocide of Jews and peak of World War II. #4    1914:  Beginning of World War 1.   #5    2016:  Terrorist attacks in Europe and the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. #6  2020:  Australia was on fired, Donald Trump was elected president of the USA and the Coronavirus Pandemic struck. #7  2001:  Terr...