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Saturday, March 27, 2021:
Glenwood Springs to Arvada, Colorado
Rested, Oisin awoke and felt a little run-over after the vaccination. He did, however, actually feel just fine – some of the body aches and pain could be attributed to doing a cross-country road trip and his usual neuropathy in his feet, and usually back pain. He did however feel the pain in his arm from the jab. You can see in his videos how run-down he looks. He awoke by 8 am, grabbed the breakfast from the hotel, then hit the road. He decided he’d stop for a morning soak in Glenwood Springs therefore foregoing his morning shower. He missed the exit, got on I-70 east, and hoped for a turnaround. He was able to turn-around a few miles down the interstate to a literally named “unnamed exit”. Back Glenwood Springs, he parked and approached the lobby – a long line wrapping around the building to get in. “Hell no” he said, too crowded, no social distancing, and many without masks. Still the Spring Break vacationers crowding in the resorts. Back on the road he went. He called the steam caves, they were booked for the day and were expensive.
He drove on past Vail and Breckenridge. He saw where the accident was that closed the Interstate last night. It was back open and flowing. He hit another snow storm as he was arriving at the Eisenhower Tunnel – but once through, it was sunny and clear, downslope to Denver. As he arrived into Denver, he exited on Wadsworth and hit his favorite fast-food Japanese restaurant – “Kokoro” getting an Unagi bowl, spider roll, miso soup for a late lunch/early dinner.
He caught up with Allison and Brandon, then they grabbed burgers from Bad Daddy’s for dinner. They discussed guns, and went gun shopping with Brandon locally. Out of Oisin’s budget, he skipped on firearms as Ammo is nearly $1 a bullet these days – to be a proper gun-owner, one needs to target practice. It would be too costly to target practice he felt at a dollar a bullet.
They went home, Allison and Oisin watched the new HBOMAX documentary – “Q into the Storm” before passing out for the evening.
In the news according to the New York Times and NPR, it was determined that nearly 90 million people – 1/3 of U.S. adults have received at least 1 shot of the Covid-19 vaccination. Every state outside of Arkansas and New York has announced that it will make President Biden’s directive to make all adults eligible by May 1st. Herd immunity requires between 70-90 percent vaccination and U.S. statistics estimate achieving that by mid-July. However, cases are still extraordinarily high throughout the nation. There is an average of 60,545 cases a day over the past week. Brazil is facing the newest cases and deaths in the world – with nearly 125 dying every hour, already killing over 300,000. Hospitals are overrun with younger and sicker Covid-19 patients than ever before and the Brazilian doctors don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel, they said.
In other news, a large freight/container boat got stuck in the Suez canal, blocking transportation for days. An armada of tugboats had to push/pull it out of the jam – the ship nearly as long as the Empire States building. It held up nearly $10 billion in trade each day.
Ahmad Alissa was formally charged with the King Soopers shooting in Boulder Colorado for killing 10 people. The motive is still unknown. He came from an immigrant family that was en route for success, but since arriving from Syria still had many troubles. This was the 2nd mass shooting this week in the United States, causing conflict between Republicans and Democrats on gun control. Dozens were killed in Myanmar when security forces cracked down on protests – the deadliest day since the military coup there last month. Over 90 deaths were documented on Saturday, and some death tolls as high as 114 calculated.
In Travel, since vaccinations are on the increase, many are beginning trips. Most of Europe has been off-limits to U.S. citizens for over a year, and is experiencing a third wave of infections. However, Iceland, Turkey, and Croatia have begun to welcome vaccinated travelers with Greece and Spain making plans opening up for the summer. The U.S. CDC still recommends against non-essential international travel, even for those that are vaccinated.
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