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The Boats Of Venice

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It is like I am walking through a painting Going, Going, Gondola Back in 2014 (insert)  and 9/29/16 Where the Earth STILL  revolves around The Sea  Venice is  a city built on the water, a working, living city, and everybody gets around in boats. NO CARS! All the traffic is waterborne- All the emergency services--water ambulance , police boats, fireman; garage collection boats, Fidelity armored cash couriers. All the delivery-boats that deliver goods of every sort; and all the postal service delivering packages and  letters. What a cool place. Put it on your Bucket list. You don't just visit Venice, you undergo this Picturesque Floating City. 9/29/16.Then it was off to Rome Sweet Rome , and The Vatican.Not many folks realize it, but you can take the stairs to the top of the dome in St Peter's Basilica., which is exactly what I did.But I digress. Back to Venice: Getting lost in Venice is the only place worth going to. knowing that you have a ...

Southampton Boat Show Redux

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Today September 21, 2019  The Have And The Have Yachts On A RIB (Rigged Inflatable Boat ) doing 41 knots in a 5 knot wake zone  with Queen Victoria docked at The Mayflower Pier Roll  Video: The Time Machine June 2015   The last time I was on RIB, Rigid Inflatable Boat (Ballistic Brand)...Roll Video: I managed to hitch a ride on Charles and Annie's Ballistic Inflatable (Zodiac) and the 500HP  was no match for Mothers Nature and The Land Rover BAR crew. Last July, while we were on The QM2, an Oceanliner, we reached 22 nautical mph, nearly getting blown off the deck, and these guys can throttle it to 50, in the tiny  spaces of a 20 meter trampoline.  Even though it was a sea trial,t he boat's foils are out of the water and things get very fast very quickly.  There's very little of the boat in the water. It's about aerodynamics, it's about control systems, hydraulic systems. It's not Brain Surgery, it' Rocket Science---remin...

London, UK Homecoming

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"English? Why do I have to learn that, I'm never going to live in England" Glad I didn't follow that advice.  MIA to LGW Miami Beach Norwegian  Air-Commercial flight. Wow what a difference from Mil Air FT BLISS  El Paso Texas Pease,New Hampshire  New Hampshire  Frankfurt Germany Kuwait  C 17 from Bagram Afghanistan  When the weather's good, there's no better place to be than the British countryside. We go walking  around in the forests, rivers and shoreline, creating our own fairy tale and our carefully nurtured sentiment for the simple life. Being in the countryside is like being in a dream, where you don't quite know who's who but can tell what's what. The cure for anything is salt-sweat, tears or the sea There is an anonymity to it all when you connect with nature...“The Dude Abides Principal” says that there is this energetic force that has your best interest at he...

CERBERUS-Dog Days

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Cerberus' job is to let you into hell but prevent you from ever leaving, perhaps like the valet at the Hotel California. He is Hades Hound dog. It is stamped on this gulf war relic that stands guard at the temporary housing I've been at all week. Being in the desert sun causes me to think: What is the ONE thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary? The quest is in this question. After more sun on the brain, I have come to realize that the only normal people are ones I havent met yet. Sharing an open barracks with 100 men is a "challange" to say the least. Again, my IN to my SANE has been reading. Random quotes that served me this week: Trust only movement.  Life happens at the level of events, not of words.  Trust movement. Alfred Adler Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls-- family, health, friends, integrity-- are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be ir...