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Series 19 – Why You Can’t See Auroras in Iceland During Summer
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Series 19 – Now Departing
The entire population of Iceland is approximately 390,000 people. In U.S. terms, this is the same size as the city of New Orleans, living in an area nearly identical to the state of Kentucky. (Kentucky is the birthplace of bourbon, also known for its crushing poverty, obesity, abnormally high lung cancer rates, contaminated drinking water,…
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Welcome to Series 19 – Northern Iceland
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Series 18 – Jet Lagged and Home
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Series 18 – The Legacy of the USS Missouri: A Naval Icon
On our way home, we flew through Honolulu. I wanted to mention our tour on the Iowa-class battleship, USS Missouri. We paid extra for a below deck tour of the engineering spaces, which included the boiler room, the generator room, and one of the firing rooms. The Missouri was built in the late 1930s/ early…
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Series 18 – Hanalei: A Gem on Kauai’s North Coast
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Series 18 – The Economic Consequences of Tourism
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Series 18 – Aerial Views of Kauai
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Series 18 – Arrival in Kauai
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Series 18 – An Attack on Pearl Harbor
I bet you thought we landed in Hawaii and disappeared, never to be heard from again. It’s tempting. We spent Easter touring Pearl Harbor. The Japanese never wanted to invade the U.S. They didn’t even want Hawaii. Their goal was expansion in the Pacific closer to home, and the U.S. fleet stood in the way…
Cleared for Departure 