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North America » United States November 5th 1990

Yeahh, somewhere around 1990. Got a call from my travel buddy Steve. Low fares to NYNY from LAX. Let's go for a week, fly into Newark, spend a few days in the City, then rent a car and drive to DC, then up to Boston, and who knows what else. So I takes the Greyhound down to LA. Mistake. Greyhound is slower than frozen molassas. And, hate to say it, but if you want to feel like a LOSER with a capitol L take Greyhound. Never again. But I finally get to San Fernando, dropped off in the middle of the night an a NON station. This means it's a non manned station, just a drop off point. Seedy area. Where was Steve? These were the days before cell phones. So I use a pay phone ... read more

North America » United States » New Jersey October 15th 1990

October 15, 1990 *City official name :Elizabeth *Founded date : *Location :New Jersey State *Elavation :? ft (? m) *Area :Approximately ? square miles (? km²). *Facts :Elizabeth was founded in 1664 by English settlers and was named for the wife of Sir George Carteret, not Queen Elizabeth I as many people assume. Originally called "Elizabethtown," and part of the Elizabethtown Tract, it was the first English speaking community formed in the new colony. It was the first capital of New Jersey. During the American Revolutionary War, Elizabeth was constantly attacked by British forces based in Manhattan and Staten Island. In 1855, Elizabeth received a charter by the New Jersey Legislature to become a city. The first major industry, the Singer Sewin... read more
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Elizabeth

North America » United States September 26th 1990

Started in Los Angeles, then to San Diego, across to Dallas, then spent time in Orlando and Boca Raton. Then Washington before spending the rest of the time in NY. Flew back to San Francisco and thn back to LAX to fly to Sydney. We were in the USA for a month in total.... read more

North America » United States » Nevada » Las Vegas August 17th 1990

With Family, Mayot & Joelette... read more

North America » United States » New Jersey August 7th 1990

August 07, 1990 *City official name :Roseland *Founded date : *Location :New Jersey State *Elavation :? ft (? m) *Area :Approximately ? square miles (? km²). *Facts :Roseland is a borough in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 5,298. ... read more
Roseland
Roseland
Roseland

North America » United States July 20th 1990

Two and a half weeks after I returned from Canada, the family left for the States on home leave. This was the first time that all the relatives would see Will who was now almost a year old. But first we would visit the Pacific Northwest to include British Columbia, fly to California, and drive from California to Colorado. I believe in breaking in our kids at an early age for road trips. Tamara was almost five and Rosanna was almost three, and they all did great. 20 July 1990 Friday. We flew from Brussels to Chicago where we spent the night at an airport hotel, having learned previously that it is better to avoid connections late in the afternoon when there is a possibility that thunderstorms could disrupt the follow on flights. 21 July 1990 ... read more
Will sleeping under Linda's protective eyes
Will awake and watching the movie
Rosanna, Tamara, and Bob in Butchart Gardens north of Victoria

North America » United States » Florida » Gainesville July 5th 1990

i dont remember much. going to disney world in the rain. visiting the grand parents. playing with a cat outside the double wide and discovering my love for water melon.... read more

North America » Canada » Ontario June 22nd 1990

Just two weeks after our quick trip to northern Norway, we had our annual official visit to another host nation; this time to Canada. Although spouses were invited, I didn't take Linda along as we had been to Canada many times before, although not to Quebec; and we would be taking home leave to the States and western Canada just a little over two weeks after returning from the Canadian trip. 22 June 1990 Friday. The trip began with a flight in a military cargo aircraft to the Canadian Air Force Base a Lahr, Germany in the Rhine Valley. There we had a brief tour of the base and its facilites, and then boarded the weekly passenger jet flight that took Canadian forces personnel back and forth to Canada. Our first stop was at Gander Air ... read more
Bob in front of the Parliament Buildings in Ottowa
View of the Parliament Buildings in Ottowa
Committee members posing outside a defense industry building near Ottowa

North America » United States May 30th 1990

OK, here I go.  My first blog.  It isn’t recent; I actually culled it from an old travel account that was never finished.  Maybe the cheers and attaboys I get will spur me on.  Who knows?           The Antitourist.  I hate tourists!  I hate crowds!  I love to travel, to see new places, actually old places mostly, to go where no man has gone before, except the early explorers, the Rogers and the Clarks, the homesteaders, the surveyors, the civil engineers, the operating engineers with their multi-tired hundred ton machines, the moveable stationary cement plants of the road builders, the sign puter-uppers to tell you where you're going, where you are, where you've been and how many people have been there before your discovery of, the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, New York City and Indian pictographs done with ... read more

North America » United States » Louisiana » New Orleans March 25th 1990

So, our hiatus from traveling drags interminably on. Meanwhile Ali is back in the UK visiting relatives and my co-blogger - for a carp fishing magazine – has just written an introduction to the up-coming “season” with an article detailing our back stories (reasoning that if Marvel and D.C. Comics can get away with it, again, and again…). Thus what’s a bored frustrated wannabe traveler to do? Seems a back story… Somewhat smug with 25 years of backpacking experience behind us it did make me titter (and cringe) to re-read our old diaries and see quite how clueless we once were: December 1989. Vicar Lane bus station, Leeds. Brian called over his shoulder as he waddled towards the Skipton-bound bus that he’d be driving. “Manager wants to see you int’ office”. Shit. I slid off the ... read more
A mere corner of my old domain: Vicar Lane bus station (long since demised).
The Chemic, Hyde Park Corner in Leeds: where backpacking first reared its magnificent head
Same packs twenty three years on but much, much lighter




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