I just checked in for our Wizz Air flight from London to Gdansk and I will say, Wizz is not one of those air carriers that gives you a real warm, fuzzy feeling. They were the only airline offering non-stop service to Gdansk at a reasonable time of the day and their published fares are really …
No firm date set for the next launch attempt , but it won’t be Monday, so it’s back to PHX and then off to London and points beyond. Hail Britannia!
Notes from an ‘almost’ launch: We were on the bus to the Banana Creek viewing site when the scrub news came–bummer, but just part of the game. Coming to a launch as a NASA guest is way cool. The Guest Ops folks are the best! I sure hope the young British lady we met on Thursday …
After a brief delay to locate the car keys, we were off to the NASA KSC Guest Operations Office to pick up the appropriate documents and passes for tomorrows launch. Once that was taken care of, we did a quick bus tour around part of the facility including a stop at the Apollo exhibit facility …
Air reservations for PHX-LHR, LUT(London Luton)-GDZ (Gdansk) and BUD (Budapest)-LHR are all set. After much analysis and general flip-flopping we decided to skip the Eurail pass and pick up tickets as we go. This week, Laurel’s been pounding away, finding us some really great places to stay. London, Gdansk, Warsaw, Krakow, Ostrava in the Czech Republic and …
Finally getting a handle on this Euro 2011 thing. Read More »
Assuming no really unusual glitches in the countdown, one week from today we should be at KSC for our pre-launch briefing. In the paper this morning, there was news the President, the First Lady and Sasha and Malia will be attending the launch. Add to this the hype surrounding Mark Kelly and Representative Giffords and you …
We’re back in Pasadena for our second visit to the Rose Parade. Figuring out that it’s been 12 years since we first did this has reinforced the concept of quickly passing time. Lots of things are the same—most of the decorating locals, the floral aromas, LA traffic, marshmallow barrages while driving on Colorado Blvd. —and …
Hanging out in Kihei, HI, today and working on the TdF Euro 2010 slideshow and maybe even going to get the ‘blog’ done. Hard to belive it’s been two months since the Grand Departure from Rotterdam. I could use some frites avec mayo.
As a part of our TdF trip, I’ve been doing my best to track where we were spending our travel dollars/Euros/Kronners/etc and on what. I’ve been a Quicken user since it was an MS-DOS app, I’m pretty good with it and it’s a nice tool for this kind of thing—it even handles foreign currencies. The grand …
Photo library is coming, but I have to do a little server reconfig before I can make that happen. Right now, the server work scheduled for next weekend. Also, just for us, I’m still promising myself to go back and fill in the missing days. Recent Additions: Thursday, July 29 Wednesday, July 28