Flying back from Vietnam in 1965, our C-130 Hercules blew an inboard engine sending part of the compressor ring through the port light shown just aft of the propeller. You can see holes on both sides of the engine cowling. The top of the fuel pod was...
There is no equivalent to Venice. This city defines Italy with its elegance, renaissance marble architecture, music, shipping and world exploration, right up to the color palettes of its artists. It also defines crowded tourism and near-extortion for many basic...
Let’s start with the British Museum and their largest draw–the Rosetta Stone. At 9:30am, the doors opened and this stone was mobbed by Asian tourists, faces planted in their camera/phones filing by taking selfies. After the place cleared, I moved in for...
It must be Glasgow because it’s December 9th. These vistas are becoming mixed in my memory but first thing it’s off to Kevingrove Museum where I begin with a completely unanticipated organ concert. It’s raining and foggy of course here in Glasgow....
My first sight of Ireland on the SE coast as we enter the Irish Sea. We arrive at Liverpool about 10am and take on a pilot which escorts the freighter into a locks. Tides here are 30′ which I cannot believe–greater than Alaska. The Atlantic Sun is so...
At 8:30pm my cab driver drops me over to 6708 Baynes St. in Halifax which is a container shipping area just north of town. Cables fly wildly with containers (“cans”) whipped about. A huge ramp lowers from the ship (left with yellow stripe) and I walk on...
