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Dateline: Jersey City, NJ, returned from Western Canada swing through Banff, Jasper, Victoria and Vancouver.
News:
- Avalanche Rescue Needs a Revolutionary (Outside Online).
- Key to Opting Out of Personalized Ads, Hidden in Plain View (The New York Times).
- Zimbabwe’s adoption of Chinese yuan not what it seems (Toronto Star).
- Why Can’t China Make a Good Ballpoint Pen? (China Law Blog) and Zhejiang villagers not happy with new villas, might have something to do with troublesome giant electrical cables (Shanghaiist).
- With College Football Playoff, ESPN Plans to Reinvent New Year’s Eve (The New York Times).
- Not-so-happy returns (The Economist).
- Master of Emergencies and Let me hear your khoomei ringing out (The Economist).
- Who Runs Algeria? Many Doubt It’s Ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (The New York Times).
- Guns are now killing as many people as cars in the U.S. (The Washington Post).
- The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles From Mom (The New York Times).
Comment:
- The 2015 Sidney Awards, Part 1 and Part 2 (The New York Times).
- Charles Woodson will retire as perhaps the NFL’s best defensive player ever (The Washington Post). Overstating the case, though his Michigan State interception is unforgettable.
- Shut up, food snobs. Chain restaurants are awesome. (The Washington Post).
Travel:
- Japan’s Hidden Gems: Kyushu, Hot Springs, Tea Ceremony and Sumo Wrestling (Huffington Post – David Code).
- Visiting Nassau and Nassau to Baltimore in United Biz/First (Jason Around the World).
- All About Anguilla: How To Get There & Where to Stay (Angelina Travels).
- In the Caribbean, Cricket is About More than Just the Game (Afar).
- Iran’s Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art Has Been Hiding One of the World’s Great Art Collections (Bloomberg Businessweek).
- The Azores: An untamed island paradise only a few hours by air from North America (The Washington Post).
- A Little Noticed Improvement to Google Flights (The Frequent Miler) and Use Google Flights to Search for Train Times & Prices in Europe (Travel with Grant).
- Because it was there (The Economist).
- 9 Travel Gadgets I Have In My Carry-On (One Mile at a Time).
- Refusing to Transport Israelis, Kuwait Airways Suspends New York to London Flight (Live and Let’s Fly).
- Argentina Becomes a Normal Country Today! (MileValue).
- Marriott Still Thinks Removing Desks is Brilliant & Innovative (Point Me to the Plane).
- United Airlines Ends Dubai Route (Global Traveler).
- Reader Brian Greco shares his year in travel in 7 minutes:
https://www.facebook.com/geckogreco/videos/10153462943616731/
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Oh no! Pls take care of yourself and Mrs. RTP.
@Shannon – I got sick in Canada, then she got sick from me, then I got more sick taking care of her, then we came back.
The signature RTP witty comments are absent again…Time to catach up some long waiting post?