On the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad in Northern New Mexico or Southern Colorado in Summer 2008. Hard to tell which state you are in because the train criss-crosses the state line on numerous occasions during the trip.
Southern Colorado dreaming on a rainy Saturday in Dallas.
Finke River N.T. Australia - circa. 1980: Oldest river in the World and very unusual to see water in the River. Flows for 600 KM and disappears into nothing in the heart of the Simpson desert in the rare occasion it flows. We camped here one weekend.
At Rough Rider game in Frisco. RRs wearing pink for some reason
First Robotics competition contestants at the Dallas regional
Robotics contest @ Dallas Conv Center (Taken with Instagram at Dallas Convention Center)
Foundation Book Thoughts
Just finished reading Foundation by Isaac Asimov and published long ago in 1951. Harry Truman was President then and computers less powerful than my iPhone took up a whole building. Although I love Science Fiction I never read anything by him before on purpose. For some reason I always thought I would not like his books. I can’t tell you why - maybe it was because he wrote so many books, maybe it was his name, maybe it was because he wrote a commentary on the bible?
I realize now I have been missing out. Foundation is a great work of Science Fiction and I am now hooked on reading the whole series.
The basic plot is a statistician (psychohistory in the book) Hari Seldon determines the galactic empire will disintegrate is a few years. With the help of the empire he sets up a couple of outposts at the edge of the empire to shorten the “dark ages” after the galactic empire’s disintegration. The remainder of Foundation tells the story of the first 3 crisis along the road to the 2nd empire.
Salvor Hardin (first mayor of Terminus, one of the outposts) is the hero of the 1st two. Hober Mallow, a trader, is the hero of the third.
After each crisis Hari reappears in a special vault in a form we know as a hologram, a term coined well after the book.
I don’t want to reveal anymore of the Saga. You need to read the book yourself. Happy reading!
If you are ever in San Diego you must visit the U.S.S Midway. We toured it last week and it was the highlight of the week - if you don’t include sunset on the beach.
California plant (Taken with Instagram at Carlsbad Premium Outlets)
Moon Rise over Mt. Gillen taken from Anzac Hill, Alice Springs Australia circa 1980.
