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Susan decided she wanted a Bollywood party to celebrate her 60th. So once again I am getting dressed up in an outfit to party. This time however, no-one was threatened by the look, in fact it created giggles….the things I do for my sister!
You know enough of me now to realize that a golf course is somewhere in my sights. My sister plays golf so we played at the Bryanstone Country Club….friends gave the balloons…..she gave me a hiding…she is a better golfer than me. Of course I claim that I have jet lag and that when we were actually playing it was 2 a.m. in the morning for my body time. I don’t think anyone bought the argument.
Part of the joys of playing in Africa is the foliage and the bird life. I came across this elegant fellow on the 15th fairway...
Part of the joys of playing in Africa is the foliage and the bird life. I came across this elegant fellow on the 15th fairway...
I am stopping in Johannesburg while en route to Kenya for an FOA meeting on tea whose timing is perfect for me to be at my kid sisters 60th Birthday….this is my kid sister, Susan. She doesn’t look 60 to me! This was taken just after I arrived.
I am on my way back to Africa. The new long range planes have cut the trip time down to 15 hours 30 minutes from the old 18 plus hours because you no longer have to refuel at Isle de Sol. Long flight whichever way you look at it! I am travelling to South Africa, Johannesburg to be precise. 15 hours and 34 minutes in the air non-stop. A meal, a movie, a sleep and you’re there.
Anyone who knows airports will know this is Dulles. The most ridiculous airport ever designed. It uses these vehicles to transport passengers between terminals and planes. The machines have pneumatic lifts that raise and lower them. They must be a maintenance nightmare and each vehicle requires a driver who zooms around the airplanes with his loads. Insane! Only Washington D.C. could have come up with such a ridiculous concept.
Anyway, enough of my rant, I am here to leave for Africa!
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Up early for another business trip….this was dawn. Off to a place where baud rates are very slow so no pictures for the next day or so…then I will play catch up….
No commentary, just shots of Colorado around where I live some of the time…
This amazing building is the Milwaukee Art Museum, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed building in the United States…. It features a 90-foot high glass-walled reception hall enclosed by the Burke Brise Soleil, a sunscreen that can be raised or lowered creating a unique moving sculpture.
It is one of the most extroadanary designs I have ever seen. Lewis and Greg showed it to us at nighttime and I could see it was something special so on the way to the airport I stopped off to have a look…it was worth it.
There is something of the look of Eagle about this view...
Wow...
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There is something of the look of Eagle about this view... |
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You may have guessed I love planes…this Mitchell Bomber was parked at the entrance to the Milwaukee Airport. If memory serves me correctly, these were the planes that Doolittle and his crews flew off the deck of an aircraft carrier and bombed Japan. Helluva plane, helluva a story, brave men.
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 A Bob Seger fan...proving he was there.... |
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