Meet my fellow passengers: Karin, Gabi, Edith and Daniel. We are required to go through an abandon ship routine and survival suit orientation. The safety raft is the orange boat at a 45 degree angle above–everyone climbs on board and it is literally jettisoned...
Toronto has this big tower–huge–about three times taller than the Space Needle and unlike the Space Needle, this one will be hard to climb. They want $30 bucks to ride up the elevators and denied me access to the stairway when I asked, so I decided...
Traveling in the off seasons has it’s advantages, notably you don’t need reservations nor do you wait in lines. Being a rolling stone who has quit airline extortions, I book an Amtrak to Vancouver BC where my real adventure begins. My first night’s...
Arrived late December in JH and this what greeted me. A view from the front porch. Not long ago, this Ridgeline was virgin territory but Jackson Hole is getting divided up especially among the wealthy. I built my cabin in the mid-1970s with a chain saw and a horse....
Always heard about Denver’s Mile High Capitol Building whose second step was exactly 5280′ above sea level. With sea level rising and this capitol building sinking, I got curious on my current PLA conference (nope–not a terrorist...
Boot Hill was established in 1878 according to this monument and was closed just six years later in 1884 because it was full; one hundred seventy four are identified in a brochure guide–admittance is $3. It was a segregated cemetery with different quarters for...
