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On my vacation last week, I did see a fair number of EVs out and about, most on the freeways and near the freeways. Saw a couple Polestar 2s, a couple EV6 and Ionic 5s, the usual Teslas (my hotel in Erie had 6 superchargers in the lot, saw one Model S charging up)., a couple Bolts, one Lucid Air (first I'd seen in person, pretty slick). Once I got out into the backroads and wilds of PA, though, it was mostly all trucks, SUVs, and Camrys. Did see a very nice green/white late 70s K5 Blazer...

Awesome, I am very happy with having the latest booster and flu shot too. Flew to Texas last week for meeting, wore mask. About half the plane did, half did not, was surprised much higher rate of people wearing masks at the airport in Texas than I expected. But then it is all about personal comfort and safety. Mayo has a nice easy to use map based on CDC data. U.S. COVID-19 Map: Tracking the Trends (mayoclinic.org) CDC is by county in each state. CDC COVID Data Tracker: County View Safe travel Robert, stay healthy.

Got my flu shot and the upgraded Pfizer Covid booster today…still planning to wear a mask when I fly next week…first flights since Jan ‘20, going to my company HQ in Plano, Tx for engineering team meetings.

@oldshurst442 Thank you for the kind words. Is it okay if I laugh about part of the post? I own being a real nerd when it comes to certain topics. For one, I am fascinated by geography and always have been. One life shaping event was moving back (and forth) to Europe 2 times with my parents before I was a teenager. That involved crossing the Atlantic on the few ships that were still doing that voyage and even crossing America on Amtrak from the West Coast to the NYC suburbs, where we stayed with relatives for a few days before boarding for the sailing. So, by the time you are 8 years old, and you can study maps, I was able to trace the ocean crossing - seeing the ports we stopped in as well as the Azores, which you sail through - as well as the train trip across the U.S. Every place looked different. So did the people. But, mostly, the scale was staggering, when you compare it to going from L.A. to Las Vegas, or even N.Y. to Miami. My dad also contributed to this. Before being allowed to come to the U.S., he moved to Australia, as did others from Mediterranean countries. Australia was sort of open at the time and he got in. He stayed 3 years. He did not like it. He also took the ship to and from Australia. That trip is 3x as along as crossing the Atlantic. You go through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, and then cross the Indian Ocean along South Asia and then down to Australia. I heard about all this and saw photos from these journeys. I'm glad he didn't like Australia! I much preferred growing up in the U.S. Cars and planes were such an evolving "art form" when growing up. Both had a lot of personality and kitsch that's lacking today. Yes, there was less worry about the environment, sustainability, and global warming. So, ignoring that, cars were going for new styling frontiers, crazier interiors, and bigger engines. And I loved following all that, and even sketching it up at times. The same was true for planes. We lived about 6 miles from the international airport and I would ride my bike there, just to be at the airport and look at all the planes and even the different airport buildings. The 747 kept getting updated and better. The L.A. Times would always have big ads for the different airlines and their gimmicks, including a Hawaiian styled lounge in the coach section from the West Coast to Honolulu on certain Continental 747s! How cool is that? I would tear out some of these newspaper ads and keep them. You were very likely to fly from L.A. and S.F. to N.Y. or Chicago on 747s. In fact, it was fun to look at their schedules and find those odd trips where the transcontinental trip had another leg on it so, just maybe, you could fly on a jumbo jet somewhere close, like to San Francisco for 45 minutes. But kids and teens couldn't take trips like that, unless you convinced your parents to go, too. The above is absolutely hilarious by today's standards but, when you're a kid, you took it for granted. This is on a Continental 747 ... in "coach." Today, losing this many coach seats to a "lounge" would never pencil and you'd be attracting the bar flies. But, maybe that would be better than having people on planes being hostile to flight attendants and each other. We didn't hear much about that when I was a kid. The above is American Airline's rendition of the 747 coach lounge. This is nuts, including facing sideways and backwards. That lady looks like Jill St. John. The above is upstairs in first class, again on a Continental 747 ... another kitsch laugh riot. "Those were the days" because I don't think that, despite so much progress, QOL is much better in the last decade or so. @Robert Hall also has interesting stories and I like hearing about the compare-contrast between living in the Desert Southwest and the Rocky Mountain states, especially since both have pipelines of people going to and from California. And, along with many others, how people originally from the Eastern Time Zone headed the call to "go West" and what that was like. Stories about immigration and transplantation fascinate me. I'm all ears for those.

@trinacriabob I am humbled by your knowledge of aircraft. And our planet. You have visited many places and I am very envious of. My strengths used to be on military aircraft. I used to know a lot about them. From WW2 fighters and bombers to modern fighter jets, fighter/bombers but my knowledge acquisition stopped somewhere in the late 1980s. I was but a casual fan in the 1990s. Civilian aircraft was also a passion of mine at that time as well, but not as much as the military aircraft. I havent stopped learning about airplanes, but it aint as much of a passion to me as it once was. Cars took over. I appreciate your posts in this thread, and any airplane related subject you talk about. But the thing I appreciate most is your travel tales. I absolutely love those. Along with @Robert Hall and his travelling tales. Whether its about going to concerts in his own city or in another town or whatever. Thank-you guys!!! Yeah, the caption said it was a Boeing 777-300ER The picture was a snapshot of a video. Its impressive that you know the types of airplanes. An enthusiast will know. ? Its impressive in that you keep being an enthusiast of an industry that everybody seems to be taking for granted. Similarly as you continuing to be an automotive enthusiast. Nobody gives a shyte anymore about cars and planes. They have become too mundane for the average moron... And its a shame. About Aeroflot and Russian planes. Other than the military airplanes, I was never interested in learning about their civilian stuff. Only know, I am mildly entertaining myself with them.