If you’ve read the posting on “Flying Weightless” then you’ll understand the connection to this one. Briefly, in 2009 I flew to Las Vegas to take a ride on G-Force One, the craft that flies vertical parabolas to induce weightlessness on the 40-odd passengers and crew inside. It was the adventure of a lifetime, and […]
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Welcome to Paris
An email arrived the other day from a tour company I had taken a river cruise with a couple of years ago. That trip started in Paris and followed the Saone and Rhone rivers south to Tarascon, near Nice. A wonderful excursion, but no part of all that scenic beauty and architectural history left an […]
The Tuck Shop
The Tuck Shop was the beating heart of the University of Alberta for many decades, a holdover from the days of racoon coats, jalopies, tearing the goalposts down and 23-skidoo. It was a compact building on the edge of University property where students could get a haircut, buy toothpaste and razor blades, or get a […]
Space Centre
I found a newspaper clipping from 1988 announcing that the Space Sciences Centre had decided not to renew the contract of their executive director. I kept the article because of the fond memories I have of the man, whose name was John. When I met him he was executive director of the Queen Elizabeth II Planetarium, […]
Flying Weightless
After twenty years of being an aviation buff, I’d had three bad experiences in a row on airplanes which (combined with other negative life experiences) left me with a fear of flying that lasted many years. During that time I missed out on a lot of fun stuff because I wouldn’t get on the airplane. […]