Friday, February 22, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Chicago Auto Show 2008
A little break in the dreary Chicago winter is the auto show held at Mc Cormick Place in February.
The cars were nice but, I came away not wanting to buy anything new, nothing competes with my 10 year old Mercedes and 18 year old Volvo.
Big auto can't make any money off of me, we even had free tickets for the show.
Saturday, April 29, 2006
A-7 at Round Lake Legion Post
I was out in Lake County on Friday to appraise a townhouse in the village of Round Lake. On my way down Main Street I had a nice find, an A-7 sitting outside the Legion Post. These things do get around. According to TAHS A-7 153220 was last at Great Lakes Naval Station.
How many Brit's will need to make the trip to Round Lake?
How many Brit's will need to make the trip to Round Lake?
Sunday, March 12, 2006
How to build an Airbus A-380
Check out this high speed video on how they build the A-380 at Google. I cant wait to see one fly!
Sunday, January 22, 2006
Trains - Planes - Automobiles and a Tuck Tuck
Now that its over I have time to count all our aircraft. We left Midway on a Southwest 737 N495WN, LAX-HKG was on Cathay Pacific 747 B-HOW, HKG-AKL on Cathay A-340 B-HXD, AKL-SYD on Air New Zealand 767 ZK-NCF, SYD-MEL-BKK on Thai 747 HS-TGY, BKK-HKG on Cathay 777 B-HKN, HKG-LAX on Cathay 747 B-HUG, and home to Midway on Southwest 737 N712SW.
In Hong Kong we had the pleasure of riding the Star Ferry, taxi's, the city bus, subway and the Peak Railway. We traveled to and from Maccau in Boeing Jet Foil's. In Auckland we took some cheep taxi's and an expensive rental car. We traveled Sydney in an open topped London Bus, taxi's, ferry boats and monorail. A train took us to and from the Blue Mountain town of Katoomba. In Bangkok we took taxi's, used the subway, toured in a longboat, and road in our famous Tuck Tuck's.
The next time I go to Bangkok I want to travel bar to bar on an Elephant. And as we know now, all things are possible in Bangkok.
In Hong Kong we had the pleasure of riding the Star Ferry, taxi's, the city bus, subway and the Peak Railway. We traveled to and from Maccau in Boeing Jet Foil's. In Auckland we took some cheep taxi's and an expensive rental car. We traveled Sydney in an open topped London Bus, taxi's, ferry boats and monorail. A train took us to and from the Blue Mountain town of Katoomba. In Bangkok we took taxi's, used the subway, toured in a longboat, and road in our famous Tuck Tuck's.
The next time I go to Bangkok I want to travel bar to bar on an Elephant. And as we know now, all things are possible in Bangkok.
Saturday, January 21, 2006
More on Hollywood
While in Hollywood we tried to find a "Walk of Fame" Star for The Three Stooges . We had no luck and had to wonder if they ever gave the boys a star.
The Stooges were given a Star at Hollywood & Vine in 1983. Only Curly Joe was alive at that time. The Star presentation was attended by the largest group of fans in the Walk of Fame history.
Check out this Stooges Bio online as well as My Pal Moe. This is a story of how a 12 year old boy started writing Moe Howard. Became pen pals and eventually visited Moe in his home many years later.
I found a site about Musso & Frank. It seems that this was also the favorite drinking establishment of Ernest Hemingway when he was working in Hollywood. How many of Ernie's favorite bars have we visited. There was the Ritz and Harry's Bar in Paris, Sloppy Joe's in Key West and a little joint in Rhonda, Spain that I cant remember the name.
The Stooges were given a Star at Hollywood & Vine in 1983. Only Curly Joe was alive at that time. The Star presentation was attended by the largest group of fans in the Walk of Fame history.
Check out this Stooges Bio online as well as My Pal Moe. This is a story of how a 12 year old boy started writing Moe Howard. Became pen pals and eventually visited Moe in his home many years later.
I found a site about Musso & Frank. It seems that this was also the favorite drinking establishment of Ernest Hemingway when he was working in Hollywood. How many of Ernie's favorite bars have we visited. There was the Ritz and Harry's Bar in Paris, Sloppy Joe's in Key West and a little joint in Rhonda, Spain that I cant remember the name.
Friday, January 20, 2006
Big Al shows up
On every trip I take Big Al shows up.
Chicago has been the home of some very famous people. In the eyes of the world our most famous person is still Al Capone. Ahh... you come from Chicago...Bang Bang is usually heard some time on the trip. Sometimes Big Al shows up at the begining, some times at the end, but Big Al always shows up.
This time it was on our last day in Bangkok at a little British Pub in Patpong. Where you guys from? Chicago...Chicago..Bang..Bang..Al Capone. There it was my opportunity to revel the afternoon bar patrons with tales of the Green Mill and rhapsody in blue.
With Big Al we found some common ground and the conversation opened up to other things. The guys at this bar were the ones that told us we had to go to the King's Palace. We jumped a cab and went there directly. Thanks guys!
To give him his due our Tuck Tuck man did know about Michael Jordan.
Chicago has been the home of some very famous people. In the eyes of the world our most famous person is still Al Capone. Ahh... you come from Chicago...Bang Bang is usually heard some time on the trip. Sometimes Big Al shows up at the begining, some times at the end, but Big Al always shows up.
This time it was on our last day in Bangkok at a little British Pub in Patpong. Where you guys from? Chicago...Chicago..Bang..Bang..Al Capone. There it was my opportunity to revel the afternoon bar patrons with tales of the Green Mill and rhapsody in blue.
With Big Al we found some common ground and the conversation opened up to other things. The guys at this bar were the ones that told us we had to go to the King's Palace. We jumped a cab and went there directly. Thanks guys!
To give him his due our Tuck Tuck man did know about Michael Jordan.
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