The story of the day is Hurricane Milton, now a Category 4 at 145 MPH, with a track that has moved further south and the eye projected to make landfall just south of Sarasota.  Good news for Tampa, which is 73 miles north.  Milton will crash into Florida as a Category 4, and is huge, so a lot of problems can still be expected in Tampa Bay with storm surge.  If the eye had crossed into the state just north of Tampa, the damage would have been catastrophic.  Milton is a fast-moving storm, currently at 17 MPH, so as bad as the rainfall will be over Florida, again, a blessing.  The eye will make landfall around 10PM EDT today, and will move into the Atlantic Ocean north of Palm Bay Thursday morning. My first trip to Seattle was in June of 1962 just after I graduated from Stanford University.  Caught a bus. Was called the  Century 21 Exposition .  Also the Seattle World's Fair.  10 million joined me on a six-month run.  My first. These a...

I was mulling over my next global journey, and curiosity spurred me to check where we would have been if our world cruise did leave Los Angeles on January 19.  We'd just be leaving the Suez Canal, with the next stop being Ashdod to visit Jerusalem and Bethlehem.  We were scheduled to next have a few Greek stops, with Rome early next month.  As of this moment, Italy remains in an emergency state because of this pandemic. We would have spent March 13 and 14 in Dubai to attend their World Expo, which ends next week.  The good news is that  they will keep 80% of the infrastructur e, so we can at least appreciate some architectural wonders, something I experienced after the 1967 Montreal Expo.  For example, the Al Wasl Centrepiece: Coldplay performed here last month.  Stopping by that day was Turkey's President Recep Erdogan.  Also making an appearance was Ranbir Kapoor.  Who, you say?  He is Bollywood star.  So did Prince William of Eng...