A Visit to the Gulf Coast
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Posted:Nov 9, 2021 9:13 pm
Last Updated:Dec 11, 2021 11:08 pm 5152 Views
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For years I had been waiting for the chance to go to meet and greet in Biloxi, MS, but it always held the weekend before Labor and I could never attend because we had just started classes and taking time off not allowed. Last year of course, I thought, finally, I can go but then Covid and several huge events happened in my family that simply again made it impractical.
Well this year, the organizer decided to move the Biloxi get together to late October and the weekend of Halloween. This lessened the risk of a hurricane, but it also made it possible for me to attend for the first time. So I flew into New Orleans on Wednesday (night), rented a car at the airport and then drove the to Bilox Due to flight delays and bad weather I did not get to Biloxi and my hotel until almost midnight. . Lady in a Million and I met and she generous enough to stay up and greet me upon my arrival.
I ended up having to drive back to New Orleans to get some stuff i forgot in the airport the next morning, but enjoyed breakfast in the hotel restaurant with LIAM and Rebel Viking from Texas. On my way back to Biloxi from New Orleans this time I drove the coastal Highway 90 which slower but very scenic. I took some pictures of the beautiful white sandy beach near Pass Christian. about 3:30 when I got back to the hotel, 5 more people had arrived including Koffla, Bob and his wife from Houston and another couple from Florida, Ed and Shirley. about 5:30 PM four of us went to dinner the Hard Rock Cafe. Koffla from Philadelphia and LIAM and Rebel joined us.
On Friday, LIAM, Rebel and I decided to go tour the Jefferson Davis Mansion called Beau Voir. It quite interesting and completely apolitical. After the tour the 3 of us went to a restaurant right on the gulf called Snappers where we enjoyed some seafood. We then went next door to a huge gift shop called Shark's Tooth, before returning to the hotel. About 8:30 PM I went to sample a BBQ place on the gulf called Fat Bottom BBQ. It okay but I have had better. I enjoyed getting to know Ed and Shirley and we shared many funny stories. It also fun to meet Bob for the first time.
The next morning I enjoyed my final breakfast in the hotel restaurant and after saying goodbye I left and began the drive bac I stopped to visit the Ground Zero Hurricane Museum in Waveland, MS. It interesting and Waveland where Katrina and Camille both had come ashore first. Most of the town had been destroyed by Katrina but the one building that survived the city hall which converted into a museum. A lady who worked there came and talked to for almost 30 minutes about the hurricane and the destruction it caused in the town. After about an hour I headed back to the New Orleans airport to turn in my car and catch my flight back home. I arrived back in Omaha at about PM on Saturday night after a brief layover in St. Louis. It an enjoyable trip.
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He Was the Albert Einstein of My Generation
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Posted:Mar 14, 2018 4:24 pm
Last Updated:Oct 24, 2018 9:44 am 5401 Views
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Yesterday the world lost perhaps the most brilliant mind of the 21st century with the passing of Stephen Hawking. Hawking who was afflicted his entire life with ALS was the most brilliant astro-physicist of my generation. Not since Albert Einstein has a physicist had such a profound impact upon our knowledge of the universe.
Hawking who used a ventilator to him speak and breathe, was confined to a wheelchair and trapped in a nearly useless body, but his mind was amazing. Hawking contributed greatly to theories about black holes and the phenomenon known as dark matter in the universe. He will certainly be missed as he was a truly amazing man.
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