Last weekend, June 2-5, 2021, Reed Exhibitions and The Vision Council held the first major in-person trade show in over18 months. Vision Expo East was moved from New York City to Orlando, Florida, where crowd restrictions are much looser to hold an in-person trade show and education conference, that so many of us have missed so much during the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and early 2021.

Since early 2020, I’ve made and subsequently canceled flight and hotel reservations three times to New York, four times to Milan, 2 times to London, and once each to Paris and Las Vegas, all for scheduled optical trade shows. So it was with great pleasure I could finally board an airplane, with an Optical Journal mask, and head to Orlando Florida for Vision Expo East 2021.