It was only a matter of time when  Donald Trump clamped down on California , the state he most hates. That ICE issue with immigrants is only a secondary matter.  He was waiting for any kind of protest to show this Democratic state who is the real boss. What he did in activating the National Guard and calling in the Marines without the involvement of Governor Gavin Newsom has happened in the past. Trump is out to embarrass Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to tarnish their image. Most fearfully, he is merely testing out how he can refine his quest to become dictator. Can't the courts check him?  They have no enforcement capability.  Trump controls the Department Defense, Department of Justice and the National Guard. Even Time magazine agrees with me. Oh well, the worse is yet to come.  On this nostalgic Tuesday, I reach back to Chapter 6 of my book,  SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Planet Earth , titled,  Blackout:  Six Hours to Seattle.   I summar...

But first, was there any movement on Ukraine-Russia peace talks?  Well, there is this  guitar duo .  Have you seen  Zelensky, Putin and Trump entertaining  as three tenors?  Watch  We Run the World . Four of my favorite cities are Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco and Honolulu. We are here in Vancouver, and this stop has been mostly wet.  But I've been here around a half a dozen times, and, aside from rain and cold, this city has much to offer. Our previous trip in October of last year began in Seattle, where we caught the Norwegian Encore for a 39-day cruise through the Panama Canal to Southampton, UK.  I've also been here at least 6 time, the first for the Seattle World Expo in 1962. The Encore's first stop was in San Francisco.  The San Francisco Bay area is my second home. Graduated from Stanford University. Worked at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View on the Search Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Spent two summers at the ...

Most take short trips: According to recent data, the average vacation trip away from home is around   5.5 days   based on global leisure travel statistics, with most people staying for 4.5 nights in the United States specifically.   Key points about average vacation length: Global average:   5.5 days   US average:   4.5 nights   Statistica has a more complete summary, showing that people in South Africa go for 10.6 days and Brazil for 7.8 days.   Reddit  indicates the sweet spot for a perfect vacation is between 18-21 days. Thus, our 60-day journey is about ten times longer than most trips, and three-times that of a perfect vacation. You can read 60 postings, beginning on October 9, to December 8.  Or this summary today of what will become the whole thing. We live in Honolulu, so flew to Seattle. Caught the Norwegian Encore (a ship that holds up to 4000 passengers) in Seattle, transited the Panama Canals and ended up 35 days later a...