MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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John Lennon is still a friend of mine.
Great minds think alike, MLT in honour of a great artist.
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Probably one of the greatest of them all who used their art and talent to better the world is John Lennon and one of the greatest rock/pop songs of all time “Imagine”. While criticized by some as a song that stands for anti-religion and communism, that couldn’t furthest from the truth. In John’s brilliance as a song writer, the lyrics hit close to the heart for the average person, by highlighting religion and possessions, but it’s really about ideological intolerance and greed, that is being played out even today In Afghanistan with the injustice against women, and the greed of one man that has started a senseless war and caused hundreds of thousands of lives in Ukraine.
It takes artists of the same caliber as John Lennon to recognize what a great piece of musical art Imagine is. I’m so proud of Mona and Lisa for being inspired artists they are and their new masterpiece album WHY? expressing the issues affecting our world. “It’s never been something between you and me”.
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For a fabulous 2023 Team MLT!
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Hi Allan
That seems to be one big flaw with that popular steel cabled suspension bridge design. We have a few bridges in Vancouver with that design, and one of the major ones that serve as the main artery in and out of Vancouver connecting it to the rest of the country had to be shut down for a day on the 23rd/24th because of falling ice from the cables. You would have that the engineers would have taken ice into consideration.
Thanks for the info about Edinburg’s evolution over the centuries, going all the way back to the medieval times, and the different eras since. The city is so rich in history, it must be like going back in time in some areas there. Such a fascinating city.
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Jurgen, wow that is amazing what they can do with drones, many of them controlled by a single computer now, all working in unison. With a few hundred and even thousands of drones, they can form a giant TV screen in the sky, and each drone acts like a pixel, creating images. The future of drones is both amazing/beautiful and scary too with all the possible applications like this.
Seasons Greetings, and Happy New Year everyone, the count down begins to 2023.
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Papa Rudi has captured so many wonderful heartwarming moments of Mona and Lisa growing up, love them. Music is pearls that colours and brightens the black and white world around us. All I Want Christmas To Be captures the magic of Christmas so perfectly, reminds me of the magical Christmas spirit I felt as a child.
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Hi Tim,
That looks like such a beautiful drive in the country around Sparta. I never knew it is the bicycle capital of the USA. Those bike routes look and tunnels look intriguing, will definitely need to bring bicycle along when going through Sparta Wisconsin. Yeah Washington State is a real gem. If you ever get an opportunity to drive out that way eastern and central Washington has a lot of beauty to offer, and of course the Rockies in Alberta and BC around Banff AB. Thanks for sharing all those photos and videos, really enjoyed seeing them. You live in a real beautiful place.
On youtube there is a guy who reviews fountain pens, and he also does videos of driving around in the wide open flat areas and farmlands and Badlands in North Dakota that I often watch. It’s not unlike the terrain in Wisconsin you show in your videos. I love the wide open farmlands.
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Hi Jacki
Absolutely, will be awesome to hook up with you! 👍🙂 I’m thinking of doing that cruise again, and this time will not miss visiting Ottawa.
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Hi Daryl,
Thanks for posting the photos. Beautiful country you live in, looks like a place most people would want to escape to for vacation to get away from it all. It looks like natural paradise. I drove from Edmonton along Hwy 16 on my way to Jasper in 2008, stayed over night in Hinton. You get pretty long daylight hours in the summer up there don’t you. I remember when we stayed in Hinton in the middle of summer, it was past 10PM and it was still fairly light outside. I get a lot of wildlife too where I am, I guess because our neighbourhood in Coquitlam is right up against the forest line and a river where a lot of wildlife travel along. I saw a report somewhere that had my town listed as one of the top towns in BC for black bear sightings.
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Simultaneous train crossing over bridges:
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Hi Allan
Those bridges, and especially that 2017 built modern one, look like engineering and architectural marvels. There is an amazing engineering beauty and elegance to it, very artistically designed. I’ve certainly heard of the Flying Scotsman, but didn’t really know what it was until now. Looks like a great interesting train ride. Loved seeing the drone shot over Edinburgh, what an impressive city with such amazing old (Victorian) architecture. It’s so different from North America for sure, would love to visit and explore the rich heritage of Scotland. Thanks for sharing your corner of the world.
I thought you and Jurgen might enjoy these two drone videos of the railway in the northern part of British Columbia, about 2 hours north of Vancouver. In the wide vastness of our province two hours away is still practically in your backyard! HAHAHA. Along the Fraser River the railway is quite amazing, and the trains here are incredibly long. It’s an area I go up to often in the summer to visit a friend I have in that area. The train are always impressive. There were some huge fires in this whole area a couple of years ago that burned one town to the ground and evacuated many others. There is another place not too far away where the train tracks kind of spiral through a valley because of the elevation climb, and sometimes when a long train goes through it, the front and back of the train cross over like a snake. I’ll post a video of it, if I can find it.
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Hi Brian
Port Jefferson looks so peaceful and beautiful, a wonderful place to live I’m sure. I can see why you returned to that place. It looks like you have deep roots going back centuries on your mom’s side there. That ferry ride must be a real gem, and a great way to travel through there. It sounds like you have many fond memories there going back to the old ferry boats and captain Joe letting you steer one. Wow. In Vancouver, we have a lot of ferries connecting to Vancouver Island about 60 miles off shore and many island going up the coast as well, always enjoy the ferry rides since I was little, so I think I can appreciate your love of them. We even have over night ferries that go to some of the more northerly islands on the coast. Thanks very much for sharing the video, enjoyed it.
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Youtube is a wonderful thing! Found a drone footage of Bridgeport WA. I’ve been back there a few times over the years reminiscing. My dad worked in the hydro electric dam as an engineer and we lived there for a year or two. Felt like a life time when you are 6 years old. I started kindergaten there, and my parents grew a corn patch that I use to play in and get lost in. One day on a small highway a truck lost its load of peaches that went all over the road and passersby stopped to pickup these juicy ripe peaches. Peaches never tasted so good. This area is also known for it’s apple orchards, and I remember the most delicious giant green apples from there. Central and eastern Washington State is gorgeous place to visit with it’s semi-arid landscape.
Anyone here from there?
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Hi Jacki
What a wonderful video of Ottawa, really enjoyed it, thank you for posting it. You live in a really elegant city. Ottawa is one place in Canada I shamefully have not visited yet. Was in Montreal in 2019 to do the Montreal – Boston cruise and actually planned a day to do the 2 hours or so drive from Montreal to Ottawa but just ran out of time. I will have to make a point to visit Ottawa, and see the Parliament Building, it all looks intriguing. In the west coast of Canada there are hardly any buildings more than a 120 years old, but there is so much history and heritage in the east in places like Ottawa, Old Montreal, Quebec City etc that go back some 200+ years.
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Jurgen,
Thanks for those photos. I think I can spend days in the Rhine valley checking things out and visiting all those old castles and monasteries. I would have to dedicate a whole day for the Beethoven museum. I hope they would allow me to sit in front of Beethoven’s piano. Just to touch the piano keys Beethoven actually played on would be a wonderful surreal experience to savour.
