Last week’s blog reminded me how difficult travel has become. This is not some, “…back when I was a kid…” story. Only three short years ago, traveling was markedly easier than it is today, what with ongoing Covid restrictions, the ArriveCan app, staff shortages, and the man-child’s unnecessary mask mandate, not to mention always arrogant customs personnel and never efficient security checkpoints. Twenty-one years after the fact, we’re still paying the price for some zealot’s

Anyone who says 2020 and 2021, “…weren’t all that bad…” is living in the land of perpetual sunshine and pink bunnies, but as with everything in life, if a person looks, he can usually find bright spots in dark spaces. When pandemic restrictions eased this spring, my travel plans were already made: two years before, my wife and I had picked our destination and researched what we wanted to see and do. This spring, we finally followed through. Armed with phones filled with board