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An assortment of pix of me all nicely girdled. Top half with the VPL showing again in this shot. It's really tight on me - and feels awesome on.
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A Quickie All-in-one Moleskine Diary/Sketchbook in Leather Cover
The day I decided to use the Moleskine 18 months weekly diary from July I knew I would have problem pulling out what I need from my bag. It has the same size and look as the Moleskine sketch book I'm using. Knowing that I will be using both quite often in this coming half year starting from my trip to Tokyo next week, I did something drastic in 30 minutes.
First I ruined the back of these 2 notebooks by putting 4 snaps on them so that they can stick together yet removable if I want to. Note that the two notebooks are snapped together so that the top of one is aligned with the bottom of the other. There is a good enough space in between because of the height of the snaps, so it works well to put a pen holder there. I just punched and set two eyelets to hold the broad elastic band together, then a metal wire is passed through the two eyelets to make a ring which helps to keep the elastic band in place on the spines, again this is removable if I don't need a pen holder.
Assembling it is easy, just put the pen holder in between the back of these two notebooks, snap the notebooks together and there you go. At this stage leather freak like me couldn't stop but made a cover for this so that the metal ring of the pen holder is concealed and I have the look I want.
Finally, to distinguish which side is which notebook, I stamped on the leather cover "Time" for the diary side and "Note" for the sketchbook side. Whenever I feel like using the other side, I flip the notebook vertically. The original Moleskine elastic bands can be used to enclose the leather cover but I like a clean look so most of the time they are enclosing the pages only.
You are probably wondering why there are some flying pigs on one of the Moleskines, that's a gift sketchbook from Steve Light. What's that pen you asked? Pilot 1979 Murex fountain pen, also a gift from a good friend Kelly.
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With apologies to Hanz and Franz:
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When you live in a stick built house you usually don't have to worry about emptying your tanks but on a yacht it's not quite the same. Your grey and black water goes into tanks that will eventually fill up. You probably don't have a city connection to the sewer system so who you gonna call? That's right, PepeLaPoo to the rescue!
There's a variation on this service for the Snowbirds who choose to camp up at Quartzsite for the winter, a truck that roams the LTVA. For a fee they'll empty out your tanks so you don't have to go into town and try to find a dump.
It takes a different sort of person to the gold in the black water and I've got to applaud the entrepreneurial spirit that Charlie has shown!l
PS:
For those in the Show Your EXIF group you should note that the actual lens used is a Tamron AF 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 Di-II VC All-in-One Zoom for Canon APS-C Digital SLR. For some crazy reason it always shows up as a Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8, a lens I've never owned or used!
I've seen her before, guess this is a regular stop?
The VEGA SCORPIO (IMO: 9491599) is a Container Ship and is sailing under the flag of Cyprus. Her length overall (LOA) is 139.26 meters and her width is 22.6 meters.
As I've said above we've seen the Vega Scorpio in several different ports throughout the Caribbean. In this shot she was pretty close to loaded and getting ready to make way for some distant place....
Now that I look at this I suppose you could call this a study of angles?
PS:
For those in the Show Your EXIF group you should note that the actual lens used is a Tamron AF 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 Di-II VC All-in-One Zoom for Canon APS-C Digital SLR. For some crazy reason it always shows up as a Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8, a lens I've never owned or used!
A Passion Play of sorts I suppose...
For those who didn't choose to be out in the sun and fun there was only one other place to be on sea days and that was the pub.
Now these "floating gin joints" aka cruise ships are loaded with bars of all types from piano bars to swim up pool bars to watch the game pubs which is where I got this shot.
This particular establishment is called Brodies and according to Niccy it's a pretty close approximation of a standard pub. Beer on tap, nibbles on the table and football on the screen. Nothing fancy, just the basics.
Brodies was usually a pretty busy place, especially when there was football (soccer) going on which was all the time. I'm not sure who was playing at the time I got this but they must've been minor league since everyone was pretty sedate and civil. You could tell when the big leaguers were playing, the place would be standing room only and extremely loud, especially when a goal was scored.
From what I saw the football fans in the UK were/are just as rabid as the US football fans are when it came to supporting their team. I personally don't get it but for those of you who watch you'll certainly know what I mean.
PS:
For those in the Show Your EXIF group you should note that the actual lens used is a Tamron AF 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 Di-II VC All-in-One Zoom for Canon APS-C Digital SLR. For some crazy reason it always shows up as a Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8, a lens I've never owned or used!
Like moths to a flame, the sun starved flocked to the pool deck!
The other guests onboard the Britannia had paid for sunshine and they were going to get every penny's worth of it while they could. Little did they know that there were storm clouds a couple of miles up the road (look at the upper right hand side) that was going to have them all running for cover!
This was a pretty typical scene, all the loungers filled with people in various states of dress and undress, all challenging the sun to try and make them look tan and beautiful. In most cases the color showed up but it usually started out as bright red, slowly fading to that crispy brown that you usually only see in fried chicken and supermodels. The beauty, as the old saying goes was in the eye of the beholder.
Having lived in the Northwest of the US for so long I can certainly understand these folks with their longing to shed their pasty whiteness and wanting to show up back home with a Coppertone tan that their friends could only achieve in a spray booth. The sun (and it's warmth) is an addictive drug when you live in a place that doesn't see a lot of either and once you've tasted it you'll certainly be back for more.
PS:
For those in the Show Your EXIF group you should note that the actual lens used is a Tamron AF 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 Di-II VC All-in-One Zoom for Canon APS-C Digital SLR. For some crazy reason it always shows up as a Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8, a lens I've never owned or used!
The Best-Laid Schemes of Mice and Women....
We've been to Grenada before and we had one thing there that we wanted to do that we hadn't been able to do before.
We'd seen the Grenada Discovery Train on several YouTube videos and it looked like a lot of fun to us. The train takes you to some places that most tourists don't get to see, especially if you're less than mobile. Grenada is fairly hilly and not the friendliest walking place.
On our previous trips the train had not been running but on this stop it was and we excitedly bought our tickets, ready to go on our train adventure. We told the folks at the ticket booth that we'd tried twice before but had been shot down, they said "No worries, it's up and running today". Finally, we'd get our trip.
We were booked on the 12:30 trip and it was about 12:00 when we saw the young lady from the ticket booth walking our way. We thought she was going to tell us that the train was coming so we should get in line but alas, it was not meant to be.
She told us that the train had developed a small oil leak and because of the oil and wet city streets they were unable to make it up the hills so once again our train trip slipped (literally) from our grasp. We almost felt bad for the young lady, she was so apologetic and you can see she really didn't want to be the bearer of the news. We said it's not a problem for us, we'll be back again on another trip and we'd catch it then. She walked back with us to the ticket booth and refunded our tickets, a refund we really didn't want but accepted.
As we left we saw the train sitting on a side road so Niccy decided to pose for a shot and show her displeasure!
As a side note we didn't know that they were collecting to help out some of the less fortunate on the island during the holidays. Had we known we would've gave them our ticket price as a donation.
PS:
For those in the Show Your EXIF group you should note that the actual lens used is a Tamron AF 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 Di-II VC All-in-One Zoom for Canon APS-C Digital SLR. For some crazy reason it always shows up as a Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8, a lens I've never owned or used!
Take 4 cruise ships, add to one small island cruise port and this is what you get!
I was reminded of a shot that I got several years ago:
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It seems that the folks who design cruise terminals took a clue from Disney when it comes to funneling crowds! This area is set up so that you're directed to exactly the shops and restaurants that are "cruise line approved", totally bypassing the locals and their offerings.
Lucky for Niccy and I that we figured this strategy out and devised our own plan of attack. Our plan is to stop and look where the main crowd is headed then avoid the herd mentality by taking a 90 degree turn at the first street (alley, etc) that pops up. This will eventually lead us either to the main exit or to a path that leads to the main exit, totally bypassing the hucksters out to sell you cheap trinkets and tax free diamonds and watches.
Once we find the exit to the town we'll go out and look for someone who's local (not a taxi driver) and ask them if there's a pharmacy or grocery store nearby. Once we get some directions we'll head that way and get to see the parts of the country that 99% of the other folks will never see. Of course, if you use this strategy you've also got to trust your gut and only go if you're feeling safe about the journey and don't be afraid to turn around at any time.
These tips have led us to some wonderful places with experiences that most will never have. Not many passengers can say they've bought fabric from a store in Antigua or ate goat curry at a roadside stall in Curacao but we certainly can. These are the trips we remember when we think of all the places we've been, the ones that followed the road less taken.
PS, my standard disclaimer:
For those in the Show Your EXIF group you should note that the actual lens used is a Tamron AF 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 Di-II VC All-in-One Zoom for Canon APS-C Digital SLR. For some crazy reason it always shows up as a Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8, a lens I've never owned or used!
Oh my, how slang has changed over the years....
Walking with two drinks was a pretty common sight on this cruise with both men and women, not something I've noticed much on our other trips. I guess that UK folks are wanting to make sure that their hydration level is always up?
Now when I was much, much younger if you saw your friend (or pretty much anyone) with two drinks in their hands you'd say they were Double Fisting it which was the original title I was going to use for the shot.
DO NOT AND I MEAN ABSOLUTELY DO NOT LOOK UP THE MODERN DEFINITION OF DOUBLE FISTING. IT IS DEFINITELY NSFW!!! DON'T BLAME ME IF YOU SEE THINGS THAT SHOCK YOUR EYELIDS!
I got no further than the first description (not even a link click) on Google when I realized that Double Fisting It was definitely NOT going to be the title of this shot!
Hopefully the Porn Police don't come knocking on my door, it really was an innocent search
PS, my standard disclaimer:
For those in the Show Your EXIF group you should note that the actual lens used is a Tamron AF 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 Di-II VC All-in-One Zoom for Canon APS-C Digital SLR. It's a known issue and for some crazy reason it always shows up as a Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8, a lens I've never owned or used!
She's been watching way too many Youtube travel videos!
Like the title says this was her idea, not mine. I was "informed" that since I had a camera I needed to start taking some "touristy" pictures for Niccy to share with her friends. I tried to tell her that "touristy" shots really aren't my thing but my words fell on deaf ears that aren't my own.
Now, I had a thought about how I could make them more "touristy" (out of focus, skewed horizons, cut off heads/feet, etc) but after hanging out with her for 20 years I know that might not be my best idea!
NIccy and I took a long weekend trip up to Williams Arizona to ride the Grand Canyon Railway. We've always been fans of train trips and getting to see the big hole in the ground was a bonus!
If you\'ve never been to the Grand Canyon the train trip is a great way to see the place. You've got a 2 1/2 hour trip each way on the train and about 3 1/2 hours for exploring at the Canyon, more than enough time to take in the sights. We took the advice of Jim Frazier and booked the Luxury Parlor car which offers plenty of luxurious seating and amenities (for Niccy) and an outside observation platform (for me).
The Fun Police, they're coming for me!
After seeing my last shot:
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You might think the folks in the UK were'nt down for a party. Oh, how wrong you would be mon frère....
All it took to get the party started was for the guests on deck to have a little conversation with their friends....like Jose Cuervo, Johnny Walker, The Wild Turkey, and of course The Beefeater. After conferring with them these folks decided to break loose and show the world that the UK really is a party place.
Ok, so party time for them means photo time for me. As I was scanning the crowd, hoping to catch someone in some sort of a situation I found myself to be the center of attention. This young lady from the entertainment crew decided to call me out with a pointed finger and an unhappy look for not participating in the festivities. Myself, being the older and wiser decided this was the shot I was looking for and took it. I suppose that's one of the good things that come with age, you can do whatever you want and not worry about the consequences!
Niccy and I just got back from a 2 week cruise down in the Caribbean, a trip that was supposed to be in the UK but thanks to the whole covid fiasco that was not meant to be. We were on the P&O Britannia and as we quickly found out we were the only Americans aboard! We had a good time, got to see some new ports and enjoyed the weather.
sweet Dessert - i just made for my girls IC and Carina
Frische Erdbeeeren . Composed "Punkten Siesich schlank", von Andreas Berg, GRÄFE UND UNZER : www.gu-online.de
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The Marshall....The Old West version of a Superhero!
If you saw the previous picture then you know that those crazy cowboys in the Wild West Show were up to no good with a crooked game of poker. Well, there was only one way to keep things on the straight and narrow in the Old West and that was with The Marshall. He's the one who always kept the peace in the town and today was no different. He plugged 4 of the baddest hombres this side of the Pecos with his lightning quick draw (and some great stuntman skills)!
While on the trip to the Grand Canyon I had an opportunity to talk with the Marshall for about 20 minutes (union break?) and found out he actually is a pretty interesting guy.
He goes by the nickname Dutch since he's an immigrant to the US from the Netherlands. He's a widower who has a 120 acre ranch that he runs by himself and he takes in abused and neglected wild mustangs. He told me he speaks 9 different languages which help him talk to tourists when he's playing the Marshall, something he's done for 9 years. He knows the Canyon real well and gave me a tip on where to get a shot that most people don't even notice.
When his break was over he said "Well, I've got to get inside and explain to those kids why those cowboys got back up after I shot them down". I said to him "They all play video games, just tell them that they respawned. They'll know what you mean". A tip of his hat and he was off.
For me, that was one of the best parts of this trip, getting to make a connection and learn a little bit about Dutch, the Marshall on the Grand Canyon Railway.
Niccy is one of those people who truly "NEEDS" coffee in the morning to get her day started!
It's hard to have that coffee monkey on your back, and sometimes Niccy's is more of a gorilla. After being together with her for 21 years one thing I know for a fact is that it's useless to talk to her before her morning java. I can accept this and more than once on a cruise I've played the part of the pusher by going and getting her coffee before she gets up out of bed. I do what I can to keep Mamma happy because as everyone knows "When Mammas not happy ain't nobody happy".
BTW for those who wonder, I'm a tea drinker myself.
PS:
For those in the Show Your EXIF group you should note that the actual lens used is a Tamron AF 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 Di-II VC All-in-One Zoom for Canon APS-C Digital SLR. For some crazy reason it always shows up as a Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8, a lens I've never owned or used!