But first:  MOSCOW/WASHINGTON/KYIV >> President Donald Trump said today that Russia and Ukraine “will immediately start negotiations” toward a ceasefire and an end to their three-year-old war, speaking after he held a call with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. Photos and a video about our departure from Vancouver on Air Canada. Air Canada Lounge cuisine of soup with beer, Bloody Mary, Johnny Walker Black Label on rocks and sparkling rosé. Our plane, showing snow still on Vancouver mountain on May 18. Airline meal. Final view of Canada. This is a weird photo of our plane right over Diamond Head. Returned home at 9:15PM.  Walked 3641 steps. Great night sleep.  So anyway, our 33-day trip was wonderful. We went to the Osaka Expo twice.   Amazingly enough, we won the lottery on both days, for we got to use their motor scooter each day.  FREE!!!  Four for four.  The odds of this happening had to be 100 to one for this to occur.   We st...

First of all, the Oceania Riviera cruise we're on is sailing through the   Inside Passage .  So far, we've seen a choppy ocean.  All day.  My filming with the new Pocket 3 has been a mini-disaster.  I'll get better when I know how this new video camera works.   For now, here is a half-hour mega tour of this ship from You Tube . Here is a  short video purporting cruise the Inside Passage .  Maybe there is not all that much to see after all. Maybe before we dock in Vancouver tomorrow I'll have something to show. For today, I'll focus on the controversial matter of deep seabed mining, for your president,  Donald Trump, last month signed an executive order boosting the deep-sea mining industry. His inspiration was fear of China. The order seeks to expedite permits in coastal waters of the U.S., while working with allied nations to share international resources.   There are more than a billion tons of manganese nodules in U.S. water...