Travel is great, but staying home might be better.  There is something to security and comfort that at my age neutralize adventure and excitement.  Plus, this pandemic provides another challenge. Then again, my time to live is growing short, and I don't believe in anything like an afterlife.  If I can physically do it, I will continue until I can't.  To conclude my just completed odyssey, on nostalgic Tuesday, I'll link a past experience with what I just encountered.   I begin by selecting  one of my flights from Honolulu to Bangkok, this one in 2011  via Narita Airport.  You can read the details, but the reason why this trip was so memorable is because, first, it mentions my staying at the Singapore Marina Bay Sands, and, more importantly, led to my series of emergency escapes away from Tokyo after that  Great Tohoku Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Cataclysm .  Note I say that I had  16 different kinds of alcoholic drinks  during the Honolulu-Tokyo-Bangkok flights.  I late

So what's happening with COP26 in Glasgow?  Here is one accomplishment:   40 countries pledged to abandon coal power .  About time, right?  Well, no.  First of all, this is less than half of the represented countries.  Also, missing are China, the USA, India and Australia.  I'm afraid this will be the story of this gathering.  You can  blame Joe Manchin and the butterfly he killed . Travel+Leisure's November issues in the past featured  Trips of a Lifetime .  Editor  Jacqui Gifford  indicated they switched this year to  Invest in Travel, Invest in You .  I interpreted that focus to mean travel is not an unnecessary luxury.  Every trip you take will last you a lifetime.  Throughout your life, these experiences will accumulate in  your memory. Many of you invest in education.  A degree does a lot for job security and life enjoyment.  Some invest in stocks.  If you do well, you thus have more money for your  spending pleasure and retirement. For example, just a tea/coffee mug