Caught a taxi from the Montreal Sheraton Le Centre to the Montreal-Peirre Elliott Trudeau International Airport.  Airport code is YUL. This you probably did not know, but the major Canadian airports also start with Y. When the International Air Transport Association shifted to 3-letter codes, most of airports in this country kept their original identifiers, and simply prefixed them with Y. Thus, Vancouver is YVR and Toronto is YYZ. Qualified for Air Canada's airport lounge, for they are part of Star Alliance, and I have a lifetime pass.  Very well appointed club: From the left: Had a Cucumber Gin Caesar or Cucumber Red Snapper.  Replaced the tomato juice with clamato, and vodka with cucumber gin.   Aberfeldy scotch on ice, Molson and Blue Moon beers.  Molson, formerly a Canadian beer, is now called the Molson Coors Beverage Company, #5 in the world, with key brands, Molson, Coors, Carling, Miller and Blue Moon.  Molson and Coors merged in 2005. The cui...

As I compose this posting, Lala early this morning was still a tropical storm heading westward for the eye making landfall over the southern portion of the Big Island of Hawaii. However, all signs point towards a strengthening into a hurricane.   A Category 1 means sustained winds of from 74-95 MPH . If this projected path is maintained, Kona will be seriously impacted, but Hilo might not. My first job after graduating from college was at the Hutchinson Sugar Company in Naalehu, the southernmost city in the USA.  This part of Kau County could well be very severely damaged by this hurricane. The media have mostly indicated that official historical records don't show a hurricane has ever made landfall over the Big Island.  However, Google AI indicates: On August 9, 1871 , a powerful Category 3 hurricane struck the islands of Hawaiʻi (the Big Island) and Maui , causing severe, tornado-like destruction and widespread property damage from Hilo to Lahaina. [ 1 , 2 , ...