Good morning As you may recall, I’m in the UK for the next several weeks on this year’s Grand Expedition of Great Britain tour. But a few quick thoughts for your Friday. I flew from Seattle to London on Norwegian, making a dual first for me. My first ever flight on a 787, and first […]
Good morning Things are slightly panicky here, with me off to Britain on Monday for our Grand Tour of Great Britain. This will be the biggest and most complicated tour we’ve ever done, covering more distance, staying at more places, and seeing more things, than ever before. Happily it is with a great group of […]
Good morning My 1500 mile road trip last week was a bit tiring, but also interesting. In particular, I had many hours to think about many things, and one of the thoughts I had, while watching the gas gauge in my Landrover almost visibly dropping (it was consuming about 5 gallons an hour in Montana) […]
Good morning Spring is in full fling, and I hope your summer, due to officially start in just a few weeks on Memorial Day, is shaping up to be a great one. But, please, cast your mind a wee bit further ahead, for the early and late fall, too. What are you doing then? How […]
Good morning A couple of articles for you this week after tonight’s newsletter, one serious and one not quite so serious. The serious article was a struggle to write. For some time now I’ve been trying to make sense of electric vehicle sales. They are probably the most talked about new automotive technology ever, and […]
Good morning Spring is definitely in the air. Here in Seattle, with temperatures spilling into the 70s, huge headlines proclaimed Tuesday’s temperature to be the hottest since temperature records were first started (the clear subtext being that global warming is reaching out for us all). The reality was a little less startling when, in the […]
The incident last week when a Southwest Airlines plane had an uncontained engine failure was massively exacerbated by the astonishing embellishment of having a passenger half sucked out of a window that shattered, before being pulled back into the plane, and then tragically dying of her injuries. For once, it seemed to be ‘just like […]
Good morning Have you done your taxes yet? Or at least filed for an extension. If the former, I hope you’ve a nice big refund coming your way, and indeed, if you are so fortunate, why not, ummm, “invest” it in forming some rich memories you’ll treasure for years to come. This week I can […]
Good morning Our Christmas Markets “cruise” had another four people choose to participate last week. It is great to see Travel Insiders responding so positively to this new approach to enjoying a European pre-Christmas experience, and in a part of Europe that is all the much nicer for being slightly off the well-worn tourist trails. […]