Posted on 11/30/2017 3:26:50 PM PST by mairdie
Now I am addicted to Case.
Good luck. It was from watching Fortitude that I fell in love with the country and researched it for visiting.
That link I shared with you is about an incredible true story of a man there who survived against all odds cold water, and well, be sure to watch it if you can. True story! Made scientific history.
Excellent!
I will check out both, over T’giving binged “Vikings” and watched a couple of documentaries online about Icelandic Sagas, fascinating stuff.
Natural storytellers.
Those are beautiful pictures. No Democrats to be seen in any of them.
You are funny!
Not to be too plebeian, but it looks a lot like Disneyland, too.
Never thought of that. Now Democrat-Free-Land would be a great place to visit.
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I was with the US Navy Steel Band in 1975. We flew from NAS Belle Chase, LA to NAS Norfolk, VA on our C-118 (DC6) and then boarded an EC-121 for a 14 hour flight to Naval Air Station Keflavik to entertain the personnel stationed there.
These were my first flights on Naval aircraft and while the C-118 (once served as Air Force One) was luxurious, The EC-121 Warning Star was anything but! It was crowded (there were 12 of us in the band and a flight crew of 6 plus 11 radar/radio crew). The temperature was kept below 50° because of the sensitive electronics and communications gear. I huddled on the floor next to a small vent fan exhausting slightly warm air from the comm station and drank lots of warm coffee for most of the flight.
After about 2,000 miles we passed over the southern tip of Greenland, and for the last 500 miles, we were invited to take turns in the cockpit to see the aurora borealis! It was an absolutely awesome experience from about 4 miles up - I doubt an image from a drone could come close. The only thing that ever rivaled that flight was getting to ride with the Blue Angels in their A-4 Skyhawk two-seat trainer (Douglas TA-4J) in 1976.
That sounds like a heavenly view.
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