Japan
I guess, with the spread of CoviD-19 we cannot travel as much now. That is why I am featuring mostly photos from my trips abroad. Before we were scared of terrorism but that did not stop us from booking a flight to anywhere.
My plan to take a cruise on the Nile was called 3 times because of political turbulence. There was another kind of turbulence on a tour of Vietnam: on 9/11we took a jet on Malaysian Airlines that had one plane crashing unexplainably earlier in the Indian Ocean.. But CoviD-19 is apparently a different beast. It is probably the main cause of a kind of collapse of not only the economy but also systems and values and belief systems, and whatever else. We cannot ago almost anywhere now. We even avoid leaving the house. We are in a kind of self-imposed quarantine that may go on indefinitely or until somebody discovers a cure, either a vaccine or a drug, that would stop the virus cold in its inexorable track.
When I as in Hong Kong sometime in 1988, there was a threatened terrorist attack on the Pope’s visit to Manila. The report had it repercussion in Asia: our United Airlines plane was held for a whole day at the HK airport until all passengers were questioned and investigated. We were sidetracked to Japan and given an allowance to visit Tokyo. It was Winter and I was wearing a batik shirt because I was going to Hawaii. When the plane ascended, I saw a full moon over snow-capped Mount Fuji.
Kuala Lumpa
