Yeah, certainly conflicted a little bit. She could use some help I think…before she blows it all on Tesla and Dogecoin 🙂

Good to know…I have time to plan, thanks.

This made me laugh, thanks:

“My wife literally cried when we boarded our first flight home from Kauai. Can’t blame her-we were flying United.”

Best of Web type post tomorrow, been a while!

That said, January can be rainy, in which case you’ll want to stay on the west side of the island most of the time as it has more sun.
Plenty of great hiking, and there’s easily enough going on to fill a week. Is Breneke’s still going? Poipu Beach-saw a huge turtle who came ashore to sun for the afternoon there. Lifeguard roped it off so the tourists wouldn’t interrupt his sleep. Tide came in, woke him up and off he swam.

If the weather gives you a break, head up to Hanalei and beyond that to the end of the road and the trailhead of the Kalalau hiking trail. 11 miles of up and down-a mile an hour over 2 days is about average. We did it twice back in our early 40s but that was then.

My wife literally cried when we boarded our first flight home from Kauai. Can’t blame her-we were flying United.

Ok, that’s not fair. UA was pretty good back then. The lasagna was much better.

@ Nick: I think you liked it 🙂

@ David: I need to start looking at airfare. Still…not sure going to Kauai in January is a good idea, maybe you are smarter going the other way! Developing. Wife got #2 today too. We all had 2nd shots!

@ DML: Great catch on the chinese vaccine in Chile, I updated the post to point this out, thank you. I did not get to the WSJ today before posting…I usually do and I would have caught it.

@ ABC: Yep, it sure looks like it. No idea about Novavax…will need to look at this, not sure why/how this one just kind of fell off the map, at least here in the US.

@ Carl: I have had that worst map in the queue for a while and needed a third link…so it was either post it today or it was time to trash it. Barely made it on TBB 🙂

For the record, TBB does not support the new European Soccer League…this is why I never got into much club play…I prefer national teams where they play for the nation jersey instead of who pays the most money

Gotta say though, the map…, Route 66 doesn’t even GO through Nevada, so whoever made that was a tad sloppy. I know it wasn’t you and the rest of it is great anyhow!

Completely agree the Gum Wall is a lousy (and icky) attraction as far as I am concerned.

Thanks for all the interesting links. I certainly have been to many of the “worst” tourist sites on the list. I don’t know how I missed the “ball of twine.” I’ll catch it next time I’m nearby.

The Guardian story of the experience in Chile seemed to have missed that the vaccine used is the one out of China with something like 16% effectiveness after one dose.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/first-dose-of-chinese-covid-19-vaccine-offers-little-protection-chile-learns-11618775502

The WSJ story is behind the paywall but the headline gives the bottom line.

A lot of people don’t get this. They look at past wrongs like slavery, etc and think, “If I’d been alive then, I certainly would have been opposed to it!” Well…. *maybe* you would have but odds are you would have gone along with whatever cultural/political milieu you were born into because that’s what most people do. There’s a good chance you’re blind about something right now. Which, incidentally, is a point raised about a Netflix documentary I like to recommend: “Behind the Curve”, about flat-earthers.