If you follow this blog site, you know that our global cruise on the Island Princess scheduled to depart Los Angeles in January on a 111-day global journey was cancelled by the company.  They were unable to confirm a sufficient number of port arrival sites, so just gave up.  We were disappointed.  We means my travel partner and I.  Our last three trips were exciting and monumental:   wine-tour of France , on the  Diamond Princess  just before the COVID-19 outbreak and  Thailand  when this country was #2 to China in total cases. But life goes on, and I got enterprising, for I still want to somehow experience the Dubai World Expo, which opened yesterday, and will be available until the end of March.  Thus, my challenge is to find my way there and back to Honolulu.  However, it seems a shame to just go there and return home. But using Kayak.com I checked anyway and was  astonished to find this itinerary, all on Star Alliance : Honolulu to San Francisco (5h 5m) to Frankfurt (10h 50m) to Du

  From  Worldometer  (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):          DAY    USA    WORLD     Brazil      India      South Africa June     9    1093     4732       1185        246        82 July    22     1205     7128        1293      1120       572 Aug    12     1504     6556        1242       835       130 Sept     9     1208      6222       1136      1168        82 Oct     21     1225      6849         571       703        85 Nov    25     2304    12025        620       518      118 Dec     30     3880    14748      1224       299      465 Jan      14       4142    15512       1151         189      712                            20      4385    17350      1382        152     566             28       3908   16388      1439        162     555   Feb      3       4005   14265      1209        107     398             4       3523    14287      1291         120     261               9       3265    13005     1340         85     396 Summary:  The decline in new deaths is definitely occurring.