Immersed in the World
With aviation on my mind lately, I was thrilled to find out last week was Women of Aviation Worldwide Week. Even though it’s been 101 years since the first woman, Raymonde de Laroche, earned a pilot’s license, women make up only 6% of pilots today. Only six percent, can you believe that? So, as a way to introduce women and girls to aviation, free flights [...]
1. Feeling great pleasure ordering a beer at a cafe in France when I wasn’t of legal drinking age, only to later learn my “biere sans alcool” was non-alcoholic.
2. Attempting not to be trampled in a throng of shoppers in a Beijing department store on a Sunday.
3. Waking up in a tent in the middle of the [...]
Last week, when I was writing the post about how I used to fly airplanes, I wanted to include some photos of a prop plane landing at Boeing Field so I drove to the north end of Runway 13R and, seriously, the first plane coming in to land was a twin prop, but I missed it because I was trying to social network [...]
When I was twenty, I headed to Europe with a backpack and my best friend in search of adventure. I enjoyed the museums immensely (really, I did) but after a couple of months spent admiring masterpieces of famous artists, even the Mona Lisa lost her appeal. My mind wandered as we strolled past yet another Vermeer or [...]
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