Watching the Sun Bake

[...] I had not thought about Lewis and Clark State Park in North Dakota for a very long time.  In fact it had almost completely slipped my mind until this morning [...]

[...] observations are contained in a book about his travels that recounts his time near Pembina, North Dakota in 1803. In his journals Henry described how the Red River Valley of Minnesota and North [...]

[...] a fantasy-filled lust for anywhere south of the frost line.  Add that six more winters in North Dakota and soon despite being an atheist you begin to believe that if there is a heaven its somewhere [...]

[...] ’s mind only he would determine who could get near her. Several years later in North Dakota, my youngest daughter Dana was playing with some neighbor kids.  At probably 2 years [...]

[...] Grove where a theater critic for the Orlando Sentinel said unabashedly, “The musical by Jimmy Buffett and Herman Wouk suffers from flat characters and weak songwriting.”  However the enthusiastic [...]

[...] 2014 the Parrothead Nation and the cruising world were rocked by the announcement that Jimmy Buffett and Norwegian Cruise Line had formed a partnership that would result in Buffett performing [...]

[...] After 14 months of waiting and weeks of wild anticipation, Jimmy Buffett walked out on stage in front of me again last night at the Mid-Florida Amphitheater in Tampa.  [...]

[...] out, and seeing cool West Indian birds.  It also seems to be a place where self-proclaimed Jimmy Buffett "experts" find out that they really aren't. One thing I have learned since moving to [...]

[...] after my first look at the Bahamas on New Providence Island I finally made it ashore on Great Stirrup Cay in the Berry Islands.  Cathy and I were aboard the Norwegian Cruise Line ship the Norwegian [...]

[...] the ships in Norwegian’s fleet.  If that was not enough one of the existing bars on Great Stirrup Cay in the Bahamas would be called the “5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar.” The exciting news of [...]

[...] season in 1993 I was afraid that a huge part of who I had become – a fanatic lover of sandhill cranes – would be buried my other more seemingly important things.  In California I worked on many [...]

[...] the neighborhood (5 mile hike - big neighborhood) I came upon my resident pair of Sandhill Cranes busily foraging in the lawn-like vegetation adjacent to Honore Avenue.  Unlike cranes [...]

[...] billions in tax dollars and protecting millions of songbirds, ducks, geese, swans, and sandhill cranes from an untimely and unnecessary death) I had made arrangements to fly to Nome, Alaska [...]

[...] a pilot would see if he was flying over the Platte River in spring time when all of the Sandhill Cranes were there.   This request was easy to fill and several weeks later a copy of a chapter [...]

[...] fruits of the labors when other species are also found.  This became especially true with the West Indies and the Europe/Western Palearctic avifaunal regions.  According to the Clements Checklist of [...]

[...] in the morning. A satellite image of Grand Caymon island, one of the prettiest islands in the West Indies My first trip to the Cayman Islands and Grand Cayman was nearly thirty years earlier.  [...]

[...] looking for spices for the King and Queen of Spain when he landed on Grand Turk island in the West Indies? [...]

[...] to go somewhere new and different.  Despite having visited 72 different islands in the West Indies I still love traveling there and continue to look forward to new excuses to have to [...]

[...] aft section of Deck 12. The library on Deck 12 forward did not carry any  of my books. The Norwegian Star seemed to be transfixed by the temperature of the four pools onboard.  The voyage channel on [...]

[...] very reluctantly from a fantastic 14-day Transatlantic repositioning cruise aboard the Norwegian Star.  Because of that ship and the crew on it, we now consider Norwegian to be our preferred [...]

[...] of bad luck changed on October 8, 2014. We were aboard the Norwegian Cruise Line ship the Norwegian Star on a repositioning cruise from Copenhagen, Denmark to Miami.  On October 8 we transited the [...]

[...] a trip to Poland an essential and perhaps final aspect of my journey to uncover my roots. The Norwegian Star sailed from Copenhagen Denmark to Miami on October 6 but I arrived a few days early to not [...]

[...] Not long after booking a one-way repositioning cruse on Norwegian Cruise Line from Copenhagen Denmark to Miami, it occurred to me that I needed to first get to [...]

[...] the fact that most other people on a ship or in a plane view things through their eyes. Norwegian Cruise Line had an active afternoon planned for its guests who chose to stay onboard.  At 12:30 there [...]

[...] Norwegian Cruise Line was already our preferred cruise line even before this earth-shattering and historic [...]

[...] it became a priority to visit Denmark and after some searching it turned out that Norwegian Cruise Line had the answer to that quest. During the 2014 summer sailing season the Norwegian Star, a [...]

[...] the North American Airport and Airline Listing Association.  Over time and with the dogged persistence and downright annoying insistence of [...]

[...] afternoon in Jamestown, North Dakota, John and I had created the North American Airport and Airline Listing Association or NAAALA.  Its name and its purpose were each a parody of the fanaticism of [...]

[...] founded in 1983 to provide information and competition in the avocation of airline and airport listing.  The growing nationwide interest in keeping track of the airlines one has traveled on, [...]

[...] founded in 1983 to provide information and competition in the avocation of airline and airport listing.  The growing nationwide interest in keeping track of the airlines one has traveled on, [...]