Ive just done some research into the median age of country populations round the world to see if there is a link between Covid and age. As is well known, elderly people are more susceptible to viral infections like Covid than younger people.
As of August 8th 2021, here is a selection of median ages (according to Worldometer) together with Covid death tolls (from The Guardian), country populations Read on...
lide de voyager seule et de vouloir tout voir, il faut absolument faire pour rester heureuse! Le meilleur et le plus simple moyen dapprcier les beauts classiques est de choisir des tours de groupes organiss la journe. Celui daujourdhui ne fait pas exception la rgle de la dcouverte des points touristiques les plus en demande. Je suis donc partie sur la route du Cercle dOr. Ce avec la Grande Nat Read on...
Wednesday (June 7) marked 50 years since a mystery man known widely as D.B. Cooper (Dan Cooper was the name he used for his ticket) leapt from a Boeing 727s rear stair door with $200,000 somewhere over Southwest Washington. It remains the only unsolved case of air piracy in U.S. history.
It was 106 years ago Seattle got its very first professional hockey team, the Seattle Metropolitans, an expan Read on...
It was 67 and sunny when we left Seattle today. Hows the weather in Missouri? Thats probably a mean question. It feels like autumn outside here.
So what happened today? I was awake before 4am Seattle time (which is before 6am MO time) so I took a shower and got ready while Kamie slept. I finally woke him at 8:45am while I walked across the street to Starbucks. I had already downed two iced coffee Read on...
About a mile from Blackjack I was looking for another historic marker; and found the Town of Griffin Historic Marker on county road 4716. I did not see the Griffin Cemetery. Nearby Griffin I saw a private ranch and then an old building. Also nearby Griffin (County Road 4722) was a very nice expensive ranch with large stadium floodlights. I think they had their own private rodeos there. I liked the Read on...
Still breezy but dry again this morning. From Clitheroe it was up to Bashall Eaves, Rabbit Lane, Mitton, Whalley, Billington, Barrow, Four Lane Ends, Worston, Chatburn and home.
Our virtual journey would be leaving Lyon on the ViaRhona cycle path. The ViaRhona cycle path links Geneva to the Mediterranean Sea and roughly follows the River Rhone. (We partly followed this from Geneva to Nimes In 201 Read on...
Saturday: I woke up in Miami already having almost everything packed in my car and started on one of the most scenic drives in the nation- the overseas highway. Its about 160 miles from Miami down to Key West. The overseas portion is just over 100 miles and has 42 bridges including one that is almost 7 miles long! Key West is the end/start of US 1 which is also the longest highway in the US since Read on...
Coincidence has thrown Adele and me together in so many corners of the world that we decided to make it an annual event.
Several months ago Adele, my travel buddy, and I hatched a plan to recreate last years road trip around Iceland, but this time around the highlands of Scotland. Coming from Tucson, Adele is attracted to cool climates. In two months, shell be spending the night on an Antarctic Read on...
This blog entry is being written months after our Fall 2020 New England Trip. It was our first vacation amid Covid and quite the experience, some good some bad. I was also in recovery from retina detachment surgery so was pretty most of the trip.
Of course, it is not the vacation we had planned. We had previously rescheduled our Ireland/Scotland Trip to be taken at this time. However, Covid was s Read on...
Koh Tao was not on our radar for this trip. From Ko Samui we had expected to return to the mainland and head south. We knew of Koh Tao because our good friends Andrea and Mark from Happy Days Travel Blog were supposed to go there to look after a hotel for a few months but got in the way and it never happened. We hadnt realised how close Koh Tao was to Ko Samui so we got in touch with Frank and a Read on...