I asked Google AI, what percent of the world public is familiar with the city of Saguenay, Canada.  The answer was significantly less than 1%.  I never before even heard of it.  So  yesterday, I toured this city of 170,000 or so, and will do what I can to entertain and educate you.  In a way, my feelings were similar to some of the less exciting cities we visited on the American Melody from Memphis to New Orleans, our previous cruise on this two-month journey.  But there was something special about Saguenay.  Maybe, especially that great ice fishing story at the end. Is in the region of Quebec, Canada. On the Saguenay River, 120 miles north of Quebec City by overland route. Formed in 2002 by merging the cities of Chicoutimi and Jonquiere, and town of La Baie. Population of 152,000, with 5.4% indigenous peoples. The broader administrative region covers a total area of over 41,313 square miles, about the size of South Korea, which has a population of mor...

Yesterday was a big sports watching day on TV, with the Gonzaga win over UCLA the most exciting.  The Pac-10 did well this year.  For the first time in my memory, not one team East of the Mississippi River made the Final Four.  To solidify the return of the West, the two women's team in the championship game are Stanford and Arizona.  And, oh, in my ESPN Tournament Challenge I did predict Gonzaga against Baylor for the men's championship, which comes on tomorrow night: I also watched a lot of Major League Baseball, and the star no doubt was Yermin Mercedes, a rookie for the Chicago White Sox, who started his career with eight straight hits.  No one in the modern era, which means from 1900, has ever done that.  So impressed me that I picked him up on all four of my fantasy teams.  You can see him on ESPN after the women's NCAA basketball championship today.  About Mercedes, he is already 28 and has done nothing much in minor league baseball for th...