Friday evening’s theft of an airplane was almost as strange as the reactions that inevitably followed. Let’s first talk about the facts of what happened, then move on to the ‘expert’ commentaries and opinions. What Actually Happened At about 7.30pm on Friday 10 August 2018 a Horizon Air employee used a pushback tractor to move […]
Good morning I hope your summer is proceeding apace and that you’re not being impacted by the fires and smoke coming from them that seem to be filling so much of California at present. We have the usual sprinkling of fires here in WA too, but orders of magnitude less than the 300,000+ acre main […]
The endless quest for a magic way to transform a coach class seat into a comfortable travel experience continues unabated. The obvious difficulty in achieving such an objective, and the continued hurdles being placed in our path by evil airlines and their ever-more-inadequate seating is being matched by ever-more-creative devices and ways of possibly improving […]
Good morning We were silent last week; not because there was nothing to write about, but instead due to the matter I’d foreshadowed over several recent newsletters coming to the fore – it turned out that what I’d thought to be ‘only’ computer viruses was actually a determined attack on our computer servers, not by […]
Good morning I hope your summer is progressing positively. I’m spending much of mine inside, wrestling with computer problems. A hardware failure was bad enough, but during the recovery process there was a brief period of unavoidable vulnerability while opening the server to the internet to download OS patches, and the server almost instantly became […]
Good morning Before anything else, may I mention our Quad K Tour. We’re now three months out from this exciting travel experience, when we go to Kiev, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan (and optionally to Moldova, Transnistria, and more of Ukraine, too). We get a huge variety of unusual and even, dare I say, unique travel experiences […]
Good morning I returned from my lovely three weeks in Britain on Wednesday, only to discover that while I was flying home, somewhere over the Arctic, my main server had crashed. This changed my plans for Wednesday afternoon and most of Thursday from one of calmly unpacking suitcases and recovering from jet lag to one […]
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 […]