Reflections of Travel to the United States

As a four-decade Certified Travel Agent, international airline employee, researcher, writer, teacher, and photographer, travel, whether for pleasure or business purposes, has always been a significant and an integral part of my life. Some 400 trips to every portion of the globe, by means of road, rail, sea, and air, entailed destinations both mundane and exotic. This article focuses on those in the United States.

New York:
Originally accessed by Floyd Bennett Field–New York’s first municipal airport–Manhattan, experienced from the water with island-circling boat cruises, was channeled through its museum, theater, and restaurant arteries, and from the heights of its Empire State Building and no-longer existence World Trade Center. It became the threshold to its Lower-, Mid-, and Upper-Hudson Valleys, which were characterized by Bear Mountain, West Point, the Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, the vintage aircraft Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, dinners in the Culinary Institute of America, plays at the Rhinebeck Center for the Performing Arts, and visits to the Hudson River School of Painters venues. Continue reading

Peach State Health Plan and Quest Diagnostics Team Up to Increase Access to COVID-19 Testing in Underserved Communities

ATLANTAMay 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Peach State Health announced today a collaboration with Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world’s leading provider of diagnostic information services, to increase access to real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) COVID-19 testing in critical areas of need Georgia. Through this collaboration, Peach State Health Plan will facilitate the distribution of approximately 1,000 Quest COVID-19 test kits each week to Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), including The Family Health Centers of Georgia, headquartered in Atlanta and  Curtis V. Cooper Primary Health Care, headquartered in Savannah. The FQHCs will conduct testing as part of a broader initiative to test persons who are symptomatic and asymptomatic in our underserved communities. Continue reading

Bates Law Firm, LLC, Attorneys in Atlanta, GA

Bates Law Firm, LLC was established by Attorney Shatorree Bates. Ms. Bates’ legal focus on Business Law, Family Law, and Bankruptcy Law relates to her background, education and interests. Prior to becoming an attorney, Ms. Bates broad range of experience over a 15 year period has given her the insight, knowledge and wisdom necessary to competently counsel clients in these areas. Managing her own business, counseling her clients about family related issues, contributing to child rearing, teaching college level courses, volunteering at crisis intervention and community outreach centers, and offering sound financial advice to fellow entrepreneurs has added layers to the solid foundation in which she builds her law practice. Continue reading