December 28, 2020

2020 Ends

By roads-rus

I mentioned on December 18 that the ball dropping ceremony from Times Square on New Year’s Eve promises that it will occur “visually, virtually, and safely” to end this year from hell. Well, I finally know what this means because The New York Times explained in detail on Sunday.

The crystal ball will drop from One Times Square as usual but without a human audience. There will be confetti and “Auld Lang Syne” but no people. The event starts at 6 pm in the Eastern Time Zone. The broadcast promises to honor those Americans who worked to get us through the 2020 pandemic that will continue to affect lives in 2021. Ruth talked to the medical team headed by our doctor this morning, and we are on a waiting list for the vaccine. They are not committing to time and place yet, which is a good thing. It is recommended that viewers still at home after 10 months of confinement, travel the world via TV on the final evening of 2020 starting in New Zealand at 6 am Eastern Time. Viewers can go on to see year ending events in South Korea, Brazil, and elsewhere. PBS as usual will broadcast the New Year’s Concert from Vienna, Austria, on the first day of 2021 at 9 pm, Eastern Time.

Also on New Years’s Day or before I recommend watching Netflix’s hilarious and droll special appropriately called “Death to 2020”. This original comedy with a stellar cast makes fun of the entire year. No one who made 2020 so grotesque escapes inclusion in the fun that puts an end to the year that virtually no one wants to remember. Ruth & I have already seen this comedy special and will watch it again.

Here’s hoping that 2021 will be a more normal year and that we can all return to beloved activities. For us that will be travel. For some reason I am anxious to return to some destinations that we have enjoyed but have not been to for a long time like Newfoundland, coastal California, and other surprises. I am currently reading an old but curious book about Newfoundland’s singular history and have never been to L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Park or Labrador. Both have been on our must-see list for a long time. That list has been in a drawer unused for 10 months now. I am eager to see Corner Brook, Gander, and St. John’s again and explore the place in North America with so many weird town names like Witless Bay, Placentia, and Robert’s Arm.

Hank

About roads-rus

Since the beginning, I've had to avoid writing about the downside of travel in order to sell more than 100 articles. Just because something negative happened doesn't mean your trip was ruined. But tell that to publishers who are into 5-star cruise and tropical beach fantasies. I want to tell what happened on my way to the beach, and it may not have been all that pleasant. My number one rule of the road is...today's disaster is tomorrow's great story. My travel experiences have appeared in about twenty magazines and newspapers. I've been in all 50 states more than once and more than 50 countries. Ruth and I love to travel internationally--Japan, Canada, China, Argentina, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, etc. Within the next 2 years we will have visited all of the European countries. But our favorite destination is Australia. Ruth and I have been there 9 times. I've written a book about Australia's Outback, ALONE NEAR ALICE, which is available through both Amazon & Barnes & Noble. My first fictional work, MOVING FORWARD, GETTING NOWHERE, has recently been posted on Amazon. It's a contemporary, hopefully funny re-telling of The Odyssey. View all posts by roads-rus
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