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Joy of Discovery: October 2013

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Friday, October 18, 2013. Springtime in Christchurch, a fantastic time to visit. I was there for a week waiting for my flight to McMurdo, Antarctica (that never came) and enjoyed the spring like weather, the green, green grass and the friendly fun people who inhabit this beautiful city that's suffered so much. Punting on the Avon. Sign in store window, well said. Kiwi Hagglunds at the Antarctic Center. USAP hanger in Christchurch. Beautiful place and amazing architecture. Kiwi humor, awesome.

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Joy of Discovery: December 2014

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Sunday, December 21, 2014. C-121 Super Connie Pegasus Plane wreck. A C-121 Constellation ("Super Connie") crashed on October 8, 1970 in Antarctica. I was fortunate enough to enjoy several boondoggles to this site this year. The Lockheed Constellation "Pegasus" (VXE-6) crashed due to very low visibility landing conditions. Nobody was seriously hurt and all 80 crew and passengers survived. ANITA III, LDB, NASA and CSBF. ANITA III Launch, LDB, Long Duration Balloon facility, McMurdo, Antarctica. ANITA III (...

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Joy of Discovery: September 2014

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Monday, September 1, 2014. Last October HAP (Holland America - Princess) bought the McKinley Chalets, where I use to work. So now I work for HAP and enjoy the new challenges. Here's a couple of photos of where I worked last summer as a logistics warehouse manager. It is now guest rooms. Quite a transformation over the winter. Getting ready to move employee housing. November, 2013. Moving stuff around, November, 2013. New location for guest room buildings, along the river. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Joy of Discovery: ANITA III, LDB, NASA & CSBF

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Sunday, December 21, 2014. ANITA III, LDB, NASA and CSBF. ANITA III Launch, LDB, Long Duration Balloon facility, McMurdo, Antarctica. The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment has been designed to study ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic neutrinos by detecting the radio pulses emitted by their interactions with the Antarctic ice sheet. This is to be accomplished using an array of 32 radio antennas suspended from a helium balloon flying at a height of about 120,000 feet. I love to travel, i...

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Joy of Discovery: March 2013

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Sunday, March 31, 2013. Some fog, the car's loaded and ready to go. The open road, I-5 North. The quaint town of Hope. Bridge over the Fraser River at Boston Bar. Lots of tunnles along this part of Highway 1. Fraser River, again. The twin railroad bridges. A northbound train crossing the Fraser River. A train on each side of the river. A westbound coal train. My accommodations on my first night. A bit drafty and cool, but affordable (free)! Friday, March 15, 2013. Gold Coast, part II. A path to Broadbeach.

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Sketches of Alaska: An Afternoon at John Haines's Homestead

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Ray Bonnell's art and ramblings in Interior Alaska. Thursday, October 27, 2011. An Afternoon at John Haines's Homestead. John Haines's home at Richardson, Alaska. Trapper's cabin Haines moved to his property. Poem of the Forgotten. I came to this place,. A young man green and lonely. Well quit of the world,. I framed a house of moss and timber,. Called it a home,. And sat in the warm evenings. His writing studio up the hill. Singing to myself as a man sings. When he knows there is. No one to hear. Two Gu...

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Sketches of Alaska: Kantishna’s Busia cabin exudes Alaskan ambiance

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Ray Bonnell's art and ramblings in Interior Alaska. Saturday, March 31, 2012. Kantishna’s Busia cabin exudes Alaskan ambiance. Nestled at the base of tundra-covered mountains in Kantishna. Sits the small log cabin pictured in the accompanying drawing. Built by Johnny Busia (pronounced boo-shay)in the early 1900s, the cabin, with its moose antlers over the door and traps hanging on the wall, looks quintessentially Alaskan to me. Was established just to the south in 1917, and when the park boundaries were ...

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Sketches of Alaska: Wet and Webby - White Mountains - August 2015

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Ray Bonnell's art and ramblings in Interior Alaska. Monday, August 10, 2015. Wet and Webby - White Mountains - August 2015. Gathering berries on a drizzly taiga hillside,. I chance across a spider gathering raindrops in her web,. Pass by her berry-laden bush,. And bring home memories instead. Posted by Ray Bonnell. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Gulliver's- Fairbanks locally-owned full-service bookstore. Check it out! Buy your "Interior Sketches" book here. Find me on Bloggers.com. An Afternoon at J...