David M Rowell

NZer now in the US, publisher of The Travel Insider since 2001

This account is going on hiatus - please follow my "main" Twitter account, @TheTvlInsider

[David M Rowell @davidrowell]

A Surprise Reappearance, November 13, 2022: In my at-home studio, broadcasting live. Good afternoon/evening/morning I occasionally get emails from readers, wondering what is happening in my life.  Apologies for not ... https://t.co/rEoBrFPF0y

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Update, Friday May 20, 2022: Using a U-Haul truck to move is the very best way to do so, for all reasons. See below. Good morning Another new style of newsletter today, and again with help from Joe Brancatelli, who ... https://t.co/xxhkmdHaGA

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Weekly Update, Friday April 29, 2022: The central station of the Las Vegas Convention Center Tesla-tunnel transportation system Good morning Sort of a newsletter this morning, thanks in largest part to kind help from Joe ... https://t.co/Sjxh8Xtm39

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Update, Friday April 15, 2022: The new Travel Insider World Headquarters Good morning It is definitely time to give you an update on the changes going on at my end of these emails.  This is a personal update, not a ... https://t.co/PDS1iV5q2H

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Weekly Roundup, March 25, 2022: NASA's new moon rocket was taken out to its launch pad for the first time last week. See article, below. 373 Supporters (up 1 from last week)Target :  400 Please Join Here Good ... https://t.co/zO0TuqRvvm

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Weekly Roundup, March 11, 2022: The massive expansion to Breeze's route system. See article below. 372 Supporters (up 1 from last week)Target :  400 Please Join Here Good morning As I'd anticipated, I ... https://t.co/wTf0nbMtLS

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Budget Bluetooth Headsets – An Update: The New Bee (left) and Lekoye (right) Bluetooth headsets are low-priced and reasonably well featured and functional. Bluetooth has been very slow to achieve its promised potential.  ... https://t.co/UXRPjsk772

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Weekly Roundup, February 25, 2022: The still image doesn't do this justice. See the video clip, linked at the bottom of the newsletter. 371 Supporters (down 1 from last week)Target :  400 Please Join Here Good ... https://t.co/r5qqJYnAlc

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Thoughts on Ukraine (and the World) 24 February 2022: I have a sense we're watching history unfold at present.  I've always wondered how major conflicts – world wars – really truly started, because they've always seemed ... https://t.co/p4cJFvhWjP

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Covid-19 Diary : Thursday February 24, 2022: It is extraordinary to see the way that the people – the politicians – who bleated the loudest about “following the science” are now following it into strange places.  For ... https://t.co/iIW5SMBuqH

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A Portable Luggage Scale Helps You Pack Right: This hand sized portable luggage scale costs only $10 and could save you as much as $100, per bag, per flight. It was bad enough when airlines started charging for bags, ... https://t.co/kRkPjnMrx9

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Covid-19 Diary : Sunday February 20, 2022: Scotland has decided it will stop releasing Covid statistics showing the different hospitalization and death rates based on whether patients have been vaccinated or not.  Public ... https://t.co/LCVhC6TgmW

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Weekly Roundup, February 18, 2022: Not a sight you'll see any more – leastways not with the name “Crystal Serenity” on the bow. See last item. 372 Supporters (unchanged from last week)Target :  400 Please Join ... https://t.co/0Gin5fEGqy

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Covid-19 Diary : Thursday February 17, 2022: The trucker protests against vaccine mandates continue in Canada, and have been echoed here and in other countries too.  I noted an interesting comment – many tens of thousands ... https://t.co/9XFMebzqwK

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Covid-19 Diary : Sunday February 13, 2022: One of the side effects of the intense controversies over issues that should be unemotional and factual – ie, things like Covid vaccines and treatments – is what I perceive to be ... https://t.co/ToEPoebAxs

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Covid-19 Diary : Thursday February 10, 2022: “The science has changed”.  That's a statement being expressed way too often at present. That is of course a nonsense statement.  Science doesn't change.  Our ... https://t.co/79K0cUyKyG

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Will the Frontier-Spirit Merger Save Passengers Billions, As Claimed?: Spirit and its slightly smaller rival, Frontier, announced their intention to merge. Will that be good or bad for us? Every airline merger, ever, has ... https://t.co/CGLgUIgKPs

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Covid-19 Diary : Sunday February 6, 2022: There's been growing pressure on Spotify to deplatform Joe Rogan.  Ostensibly this is due to his imagined sin of daring to invite two impeccably credentialed experts onto his show to ... https://t.co/2nUG8O2LDC

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Weekly Roundup, February 4, 2022: Can you see the problem with this plate? If you can, a factory in China would like to offer you a job as Quality Control Inspector. See last item, below. 372 Supporters (unchanged from ... https://t.co/zSEd3Zuyr8

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Covid-19 Diary : Thursday February 3, 2022: This is going to be one of the last Covid diary entries I write, assuming no major new developments or changes in the future.  I never, ever, anticipated, now two years ago, that ... https://t.co/0VF8IByl9L