u/CalmTrials

I don't even want to bring up the horrors and damages of the bloated tourism industry absolutely choking some of the southeast Alaskan towns up. It's been a growing elephant filling up more space in the room.

They do millions in damages to the ecosystem in the way of deliberately polluting water while paying out hush money. Almost all of the tours promoted on the ship are either business owners paying far too much for a little exposure or mega corporations wrangling the tourism market to their own pockets.

The no-cap is a joke and there will be disasters this year. There is not enough infrastructure pre-existing to withstand the entire population of the city loads of passengers offloading every day.

The roads are still in ruins and the season kicks off in less than two weeks. This year I have a feeling will be a wake up call to the disillusioned idea that this is sustainable.

dealt with my first ghost tap today - small location with not much going on, so much so that if you say RFID wallet less than half of the people would know what it means.

I tried to explain while traveling the person should get an RFID wallet, something secure, and regardless of how I tried to explain it to them, they did not understand how it could make a difference.

I guess to anyone reading this, get an RFID wallet and phone case. We are to the point in the world where it isn't a nicety, it's a necessity. Talk to your family, especially seniors. People don't believe they can be charged on their phone without clicking anything - they unfortunately can.