Our new wheels, after modest preventative repairs at the
estimable Joe's Auto Service of St. Cloud; already en route across the country |
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...recounts the retirement travels of Mark and Vicki Sherouse since 2008...in Asia and the Pacific, New Zealand, Europe, South America, and Africa, as well as the US and Canada. Our website, with much practical information, is: https://sites.google.com/site/theroadgoeseveron/.Contact us at mark.sherouse@gmail.com or vsherouse@gmail.com.
Our new wheels, after modest preventative repairs at the
estimable Joe's Auto Service of St. Cloud; already en route across the country |
Grand entry
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Crawler track, forking between launch sites A and B
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Seriously, this has got to be one of mankind's most historic
places |
Apollo launch control
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Lunar lander
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Apollo Saturn V, "disassembled"
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Apollo XIII ("Houston, we have a problem") crew module; imagine, Tom Hanks
sat right there... |
Jeremy and Will before a Space Shuttle we toured
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In the "Rocket Garden" (no specimen of the hapless Vanguard)
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"Fully-assembled" Saturn
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Christmas tree and presents and the warm glow of a roaring virtual fire;
thanks Norm and Marie (who were visiting Stacey and The Boys in Knoxville) for the use of their house |
Jeremy displays one of many gifts of infant-wear
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Rachel enjoys the antics of her new Turkish cat, Mehmet
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Will and Rachel display hang-over cause and remedy gifts
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Chef Vicki announces Christmas dinner
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Rebecca and Jeremy, Vicki, Will and Rachel
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Monday brunch at Kiki's, Will and Rachel, Lexi and Carole, Rebecca and Jeremy
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In Potter World
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Signage
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Rachel and Will preparing for blast-off
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In Potter World
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Luncheon at the Three Broomsticks; Rebecca, Jeremy, Rachel, Vicki, me,
and Will |
Dumbledor welcomes us into the castle
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The Hat
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Another view of the environs
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Rebecca (with child) before the famous train
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View from the marina storage center, Sunday morning
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Museum entrance
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Schliemann's famous communication to the king of Greece
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The golden cups...
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Moving right along, the very famous Zeus/Poseidon (scholars
are divided) throwing a spear/trident/whatever |
The Jockey
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Jumping back a little in time, the "boxers" fresco from
Akrotiri/Santorini, 16th century BCE |
It took many years and much high tech to figure out what this
thing was and to reconstruct it, as above; no one was expecting a 2000 year-old computer |
Interior side view of all the gears, etc.
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The Hellenistic Gaul pleading for his life
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Incredibly realistic bronze bust, showing how eyes were
represented in such things |
Aphrodite and Eros fighting off Pan
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Head-smashed-in bronze
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