Note to Readers: Sorry for the delay since my last post. Most of you know of my blond moment on the day of my departure. Obviously I'm home now, but very behind in everything. And the transition from very cool weather in Fremantle to 95 deg. F (35 C) here made me a little woozy for a while. Another thing about the Blog, please remember I still have dial-up and loading photos is taking a long time. Be patient, some goodies to come.
So, picking up where I left off. Another Road Trip! This was Tue. 19 May. Jenny and Don took me for a really nice ride in the hills east of Perth ending up in the town of York, established in 1831 and was the first inland European settlement in Western Australia. The main street is lined with restored buildings dating from the late 1800's to the mid 1900's. If you were to park a bunch of old cars and trucks along the street you would have a scene right out 1955.
This wonderful old hotel, restored in great detail, sits right in the center of town.
York would make a perfect movie set, just add period cars.
Don is at the right, window shopping(?).
A very friendly and curious Emu.We had a nice lunch at a sidewalk cafe (mmmmm meat pies!) and walked around some looking at the shops. Also found an Emu in a fenced yard so we had to go say hello and get a photo. This was a great trip, the drive out went through some very scenic countryside. And we had a stop in Sawyer's Valley on the way home for me to do some shopping at a saddle and tack shop, and wouldn't you know the Sawyer's Valley Pub was right next door so we just had to go in for a quick cold one and to admire the fine architecture.
The next day Jenny dropped Don and I off at the Royal Australian Air Force Association's Aviation Heritage Museum of Western Australia. I could have spent much more time than we had to enjoy the displays. The centerpiece of the aircraft restored here is an Avro Lancaster, a British made 4 engine heavy bomber. First time I've ever seen one in person. They also had a beautiful PBY Catalina, a nice C-47 Dakota, a De Havilland Vampire jet fighter, a Sopwith Camel, a Mark XXII Supermarine Spitfire, an old De Havilland Tiger Moth, and a Canberra Mk. 20 that was a Vietnam vet, as well as many other aircraft and aviation displays. Much fun for this old pilot. Thanks to Don for putting this stop on my tourist agenda,which, as you can see from this blog, remained quite full.
P.S. Yikes, I'm gonna have to get upgraded computer service, dial-up took forever on this post. -RAM
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You have...uh...DIAL-UP! Gah! Isn't that FREE?! It should be. Something tells me you ain't pirated many 700 megabyte movies! I have 4 Mb/sec cable...but then again I also had to get a 1.5 TB external hard drive to store all that stuff. My supressed desire is to download the entire Internet then cancel cable...not really, Mite. Welcome home, Bobay. Give us a call after a mo when you shake the jet lag, clean up your place, and pay all those bills piled up in the mailbox. That will be about October.
Jaws007
June 15, 2009 at 8:40 AMHi there Capt'n Bob,
Glad you made it home ok. Great blog. I will have to come back with some comments when I get a spare moment.
Sad to see the demise of that great American hero of the Vietnam War, McNamara, depart the scene. Jane may go in sympathy.
YUP, the Lancaster was a great old warbird indeed. She domminated the night skies over Germany leaving the 8th Tactical Airforce USAAF to do the the daylight bombing in the venerable B-17's.
Anonymous
July 9, 2009 at 5:53 PM