TWA Flight 6 – Timeline
Almost nine decades ago today, May 6, a then strikingly modern and luxurious Douglas DC-2 crashed in fog covered rural Missouri. The crash killed 5 of 13 aboard, and resulted … Continue reading
TWA Flight 6 – The Crash Site
In the early morning hours on May 6, 1935, Transcontinental & Western Air Lines [TWA] Flight 6 crashed on farmland in rural middle Missouri. The all-metal three-engine Douglas DC-2 was … Continue reading
Aviation Firsts in Missouri
In 2022, there is little remarkable about the aviation industry in the not so great state of Missouri. However, the land within these borders has been host to a surprising number of firsts involving aviation.
Teotihuacan
Ever wandered around an archaeological site and wondered what it was like when it was? Like actually WAS. Not what it looked like before some earthquake in 1598CE took down … Continue reading
Memorialul Renaşterii
On my first trip to Romania in the summer of 2011, I came across a rather large white sculpture of a spike. It was interesting to me, but I only … Continue reading
Seanamarena
Lesotho (Leh-soo-too) is a tiny enclave of South Africa situated high in the Drakensberg and Maloti Mountains. It is often called the Kingdom in the Sky, and for obvious reasons. … Continue reading
Dracula’s Castle
With my travels taking me back to Romania in the coming weeks, I thought it might be appropriate to share a story from an actual site in that country that … Continue reading
Canal de Panamá
The Panama Canal will have been open for passage for one hundred years next year, and it is still rightly in many of the top ten wonders of the industrial … Continue reading
Arizona Archaeology
For this entry, I am going to take a break from the far away (at least relative to my home in Minnesota) and make a quick tour of my old … Continue reading
Cerro de Monserrate
Just to the east of downtown Bogotá is a row of mountains that stops the city from spilling out in every direction. The generally angular shaped and tan coloured buildings … Continue reading
Muthi Market
On my last day in Africa, some of my traveling associates and I picked up a guide to take us around the city of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. It is easy to … Continue reading
Uplistsikhe
I have mentioned the town of Gori in Georgia before in “The Stalin Museum” as it relates to the 2008 war and the home of Joseph Stalin. The history of … Continue reading
The Blue Eye
Of all the floral species found on the continent of Europe, nearly one third of them can be found in the small country of Albania. Even though it is rather … Continue reading
Bunkerisation
Bunkerisation: (verb) the act of packing a country only slightly larger than the US state of Maryland with seven hundred and fifty thousand concrete and steel bunkers. For a different … Continue reading
Catedral de Sal
Tucked into the foothills of the far northern Andes Mountains outside of Bogota sits a towering black entrance to what could be a giant abandoned train tunnel, or some sort … Continue reading
Steerage Yearns 