Road Trip: Louisiana

Show everyone the latest shots which make you feel dead chuffed with your camera choice
Forum rules
No more than three images or three external links allowed in any post or reply. Please trim quotations and do not include images in quotes unless essential.
User avatar
bakubo
Tower of Babel
Posts: 5875
Joined: Tue Nov 06, 2007 7:55 am
Location: Japan
Contact:

Re: Road Trip: Louisiana

Unread post by bakubo »

Greg Beetham wrote:That tuba player is a goodn Henry, and those crawfish remind me of our freshwater lobster, bit of an art in cooking them though, otherwise they end up as tough as a boot, I guess you got there in Florida too late to see the Space Shuttle launch...pity, I've always wanted to see one go up myself, apparently you can hear the crackle and roar of the 9 million horse power engines from miles away.
Also watch out for the ghosts of Flt. 19 if you pass through Fort Lauderdale. :)
When I was a kid in Texas my cousin and I used to catch crawfish sometimes and boil the tails. Pretty good. I just eat the tails. I don't "suck dem heads." :)

I have never seen a space shuttle launch, but in 1964-65 I lived in Orlando and everytime there was a Gemini launch on the Cape the whole school would go out into the playground to watch. I wish I could have seen an Apollo launch. Those huge Saturn 5 rockets were massive!
User avatar
Greg Beetham
Tower of Babel
Posts: 6118
Joined: Sun May 27, 2007 3:25 pm
Location: Townsville, Qld. Australia
Contact:

Re: Road Trip: Louisiana

Unread post by Greg Beetham »

Henry I've been a total NASA fan since forever, I've got a scale model of the Columbia too commemorate the first shuttle launch, and a same scale model of a Saturn V standing beside it (had em in a display case for a very long time) and the Moon rocket towers over the Shuttle by nearly twice the height and the girth is even bigger than the external fuel tank by quite a margin...and the Shuttle is no small puppy. I also have the genuine NASA mission patches with the names of the Astronauts, (Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins...Young, Crippen) I also later bought and built a scale model of the Challenger to remember the crew that was lost at that time, (Onizuka, McAuliffe, Jarvis, Resnik, Smith, Scobee, McNair) but I haven't been able to buy another one (couldn't find one in any modeling shops around here, don't know why) too do the same for the last terrible mishap, I guess I could always send to NASA for that mission patch and put it beside the earlier model.
Greg
User avatar
bakubo
Tower of Babel
Posts: 5875
Joined: Tue Nov 06, 2007 7:55 am
Location: Japan
Contact:

Re: Road Trip: Louisiana

Unread post by bakubo »

The movie Apollo 13 (Tom Hanks, et al) just came on AMC so with all this NASA talk I think I will watch it again (it has been a few years). :)
Post Reply

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 46 guests