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Today was supposed to be my nostalgic Tuesday posting...until we were blacked out.  We now find ourselves in Phuket, Thailand.  Incredibly enough, I was here in 2020...at the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic.  When we began that trip, Thailand was #2 in Covid cases to China at #1.   However, by 17 February 2020 Thailand had dropped to #7.   Today, it is #31. Why would we take such a chance?  Well, I was just accompanying my travel partner, who was joining eleven of her high school classmates on this Thai adventure.  The problem is that only one other person actually showed up, and we saw him for maybe an hour for a drink.  But we were there, so made the best of it. I'll share some highlights of our couple days in Phuket, beginning with  17 February 2020 . We stayed at the Le Meridian Phuket, a Marriott property.  However, turns out that Marriott resorts do not have any executive club, so that was a downer as a beginning.    Our stay was also desultory, for we did not do much. The