One aspect of traveling in this part of the world that I was dreading prior to our departure was the notion of having to spend a couple hours every week in some dirty Laundromat watching our clothes get butchered by dated washers and dryers. I normally don’t mind doing laundry at home a...
Out Of The Blue It has been a while since my last post and boy have things changed. I have spent the better part of the last week under the sea, among the corals, in the day and at night, becoming a PADI certified “Advanced Open Water” diver. Continue reading “Out Of The Blue...
I’ve even taken to the open sea for Poe’s only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym—believed to be an inspiration to Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. (Pym is not without its cultural difficulties for the modern reader)No matter how many times I visit stories, every subsequent visit...
MONDAY, JULY 10.We left Water Eaton by convoy. I was assistant driver of a 2½-ton GMC 6×6 truck with a trailer. We had to travel with the tops down, and it rained a good deal of the time. I drove about half of the trip but enjoyed the sights more when I was not driving....
“We are saddened to hear of the loss of one of our TCM family, trailblazing historian Cari Beauchamp,” the network wrote today. Without her invaluable work, many female creatives would be lost to history. We are grateful for her many contributions to our network over the years.”Beauchamp...
There are arguments over William Shakespeare's childhood in the Shakespearean section. Over on the Herman Melville board, posters discuss Ahab's use of the sea chart as a controlling mechanism and Ishmael's artistic nature. Some of the posts are simplistic, others amazingly complex. Of course, ...
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Svetoslav Yurekchiev was a watch engineer, who, among other responsibilities, also oversaw the ship’s seawater cooling system, and he provides another interesting detail: the temperature of the sea was 10°C. There are no such temperatures in the Bay of Biscay, which could just as well pla...
Steering the reader in the right direction. ENCOUNTERING THE PAST -- ODYSSEYS #1, #2, #3 TASMANIA -- ODYSSEY#4 OBSERVATIONS from the SADDLE of a BIKE -- ODYSSEY#5 From 2012 to 2019 In early 2012 we decided to return to Europe and visit countries we tr