On the way to Acapulco we had a mild nightlife, starting with an Oriental Dinner in the Garden Cafe. Mostly Chinese food, and not much at that.  The hot sour soup was lukewarm, but a shot of Johnny Walker Black Label helped.  Everything was too salty.  Watched ADDA in the Atrium. That was it.  Only 3366 steps today. We are now in Acapulco.  View from our cabin. Looks like Waikiki. Lunch of salad and pho, with a Mexican beer and rosé. Yesterday, I essentially walked 3/4ths of mile to gather the buffet lunch.  Today, only half a mile. Acapulco de Juárez is commonly called Acapulco. 3080 miles south of Seattle. 1987 miles south of San Diego. 240 miles south of Mexico City. 2223 miles north of Panama Canal. 3775 miles east of Honolulu. By the 8th century, the Acapulco Bay area had a small culture dominated by Omecs. Followed by Mayan,,then the Aztec Empire around 1500. The Spanish came in the 1520s as linked to Hernán Cortés. Cortez built a major ro...

News of the day. No break in the search for Robert Card in Maine.   Follow live updates here. Looks like  Israel  has increased war-like activity in the Gaza Strip.   Time  magazine can only discuss four bad options. Earlier this week Jimmy Kimmel indicated that  Donald Trump will go to jail .  Clearly, Kimmel also doesn't like new Speaker Mike Johnson.   Watch him say the followin g: Johnson, he noted, backed   Donald Trump ’s plot to overturn the 2020 election results and remain in power despite losing. “Also anti-gay, anti-choice, pro-conspiracy theory, he seems terrific,” Kimmel snarked. “Not only is he not the best choice for speaker, you can’t even definitively say Mike Johnson is the best Mike Johnson they could’ve chosen.”   Kimmel then ticked off a list of better Mike Johnsons, from chefs to athletes to yodelers. “You could go to the middle of the phone book and pick any of the hundreds of Mike Johnsons. Each one ...