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Surprisingly, one of the most scenic drives for me was not coastal, but mountainous: the Great Dolomites Road (Grande Strada dei Dolomiti). It takes almost 3 hours to travel 60 miles. I've done this twice ... about 10 years apart ... not my photos above, but I took at least 100 each time. Highly recommended!

If you haven't watched it, you should definitely check out Person of Interest (only available on Amazon Prime currently, with ads). The series started in 2011ish and run until 2016. But you'd think it was from today with all of the AI talk. If you're a Plex user and want to be friends on their, DM me and we can friend each other and you can stream from my Plex box.

I had to comment on this, which I saw a few days ago. Boeing 787 Dreamliner operators have been using 3-3-3 seating in economy. That's 9 across. Japan Air Lines has bucked that convention. They've gone to 2-4-2 regular economy seating, so that's 8 across. They've widened the seats a little, which realistically means a lot. https://simpleflying.com/japan-airlines-boeing-787-seat-configuration-guide/ I really like the Dreamliner, and its ambiance and ambient features are great, but it does look like a 1.5x wide 737 in the back of the plane. JAL's move probably works out to a loss of 30 seats, unless they now have fewer business class rows. But customers will think about the seating and it might cause them to pick JAL, which might mean fuller flights. That part of the world isn't my cup of tea. I want to understand what people are saying and respond. It would be great for European - and North American - carriers to go 2-4-2, so you would get the great Boeing plane and a more comfortable cabin. I'm more on board with the latest Airbus 330 Neo, which is still 2-4-2 and I've enjoyed flights on it. Look at this obviously more comfortable layout and nicer seating that Japan Air Lines is offering.

Korean is mostly Boeing, and they do have some A380s. While the article was about (yet another) Boeing 737 Max issue, it featured a photo of their nicely painted up 747-8 of which they are one of the few carriers who ordered them in pax form. I can't do much with my phone camera. But kudos to a photographer who can capture this plane on the tarmac at NY-JFK and capture the Freedom Tower all the way across the miles of city that is Brooklyn-Queens in between the two. It's fairly far away.