View from the North 40: Humans: Getting by with the tools at hand

Sometimes it feels good to know that in a variety of odd little ways people are doing the best they can with whatever resources they have available.

A bus tour business in Hong Kong called ulu travel needed to ramp up income hit hard by lack of tourism. In response the company’s marketing and business development manager, Kenneth Kong capitalized on an idea from a social media post by a friend who said he was stressed out and couldn’t sleep at night, but he could always fall asleep on the bus — and sleep well.

An Oct. 21 article from The Associated Press says that ulu travel started a new 5-ho...