Previously (Part One, Part Two) I covered by day trip to rural Germany and a side trip to Poland. Today's Germany tale will be more urban. When I woke up the day after my borderlands gambol, the sky was sleeting with a stiff wind blowing. THIS was much more...
I went outside to the Soviet Monument and cemetery. The statue is in the standard “unknown rapist” tradition with a heroic Soviet soldier standing next to the turret of a destroyed German tank.
Hello all! Back in January I returned from a European vacation and thought I would fill you in on some of the sights I saw. I am not going to bore you with tales of Berlin’s nightlife, the fascinating mix of rebuilt old and Soviet blech in Warsaw, or even...
Oh, the canvas can do miracles. Just you wait and see. DblEagle takes us on another sailing adventure.
How you need to stop worrying and love the bomb. In the second of two cheerful little articles, Dbleagle walks us through the actual risk to the average American of tactical nuke usage in the Russia-Ukraine war.
How you need to stop worrying and love the bomb. In the first of two cheerful little articles, Dbleagle walks us through the science of nuclear weapons and fallout (NO MATH).
We raised our spinnaker and had to pick a course far enough out to get current help, but not so far out that we missed the wind effect from Trade Winds hitting the huge sea cliffs. Every few miles we had to jibe. We were well paired with The Other Boat and often crossed within yards of each other. Sometimes we had a small lead and other times they had the advantage. As we raced past Molokai the small swell helped our speed as we would “surf” some swells for free speed.