I decided to skip summarizing our city stops on our 60-day journey.  You can read those postings at  Seattle ,  Chihuly Museum ,  Amsterdam  and  Zurich. As would be expected,  Time' s  2024 Person of the Year will be Donald Trump .   Is it  because he was the most fabulous individual of the year? Nope.  To quote. A person, group, idea, or object that "for better or for worse ... has done the most to influence the events of the year". [ 2 ] Time   points out that controversial figures such as   Adolf Hitler (1938);   Joseph Stalin   (1939 and 1942);   Nikita Khrushchev   (1957); and   Ayatollah Khomeini (1979) have also been granted the title for their impact on events. [ 16 ] Here, read the  Time  2January1939  article about Adolf Hitler .  Turns out that the just-elected president of the USA is now ALWAYS the Person of the Year. Other noteworthy selections. The first...

I'll lead off with Hurricane Milton, who began the day at 85 MPH, but is now up to 175 MPH as a Category 5 Super Hurricane.  The expectation is a drop in strength to a Category 2 when the eye, as now projected, will pass over Tampa Wednesday afternoon, then Orlando.  Hurricane Milton should leave Florida around midnight, and will be in the Atlantic Ocean as a Category 1.   Today is the first anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel .   1200 were killed, and 200 taken hostage, with 100 probably still alive somewhere in the Gaza Strip.   41,000 have so far been killed in the Gaza Strip, mostly civilians. Israel continues to bomb the Gaza Strip. Beirut now too, killing more than 1400 in Lebanon. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country faces war on SEVEN fronts. The Middle East is in an advanced state of a major war. On the  Donald Trump vs Kamala Harris front , tomorrow will signal the 4-week period to November 5. Harris taped an int...