Adventures Old and New

In no particular order...tales of travel, Samoa, sailing, cosmonaut training, and other adventures. Be sure to look at the blog archive listing to the right, especially for earlier months, for more stories. Clicking on a title will take you directly to that story

Saturday, October 10, 2020

Camping In The 1940's

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History lesson for the day! Still digging through our stacks of very old photos. This one is circa 1947 when the family took a traveling vac...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Tales of Old Samoa - The Diver and the Shark

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    My only venture into free-diving 60 feet deep was when we were living on the island of Aunu'u, in American Samoa One weekend the Pag...
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Monday, November 3, 2014

A Morning Run

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     With the end of Daylight Savings Time it should be easier to get out of bed, since it gets light an hour earlier. However, the temper...
Monday, June 23, 2014

Another tale of old Samoa - Pago Pago i le Po - Pago Pago Harbor at Night

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Tropical Night Magic       The perfume of night-blooming jasmine slipped through the corroded copper wire window screens of the house by ...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Adventures In Belize - Day Ten

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     The rain came and went several times during the night, rattling close overhead loudly enough to wake me. I went out on deck as the warm...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Adventures In Belize - Day Nine

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Friday, October 19, 2012       The wind was blowing out of the northeast when we went to bed. I was a bit worried that it would shift ...

Adventures In Belize - Day Eight

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Thursday, October 18, 2012 - Day Eight This morning the sun r ose directly behind Laughing Bird Cay, silhouetting the coconut palms, th...
Monday, November 12, 2012

Adventures In Belize - Day Seven

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Wednesday, October 17, 2012             I missed sunrise this morning. The night was very still, and virtually no breeze came thr...
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George Hastings
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Now retired, I taught 6th grade all subjects in California, was a school principal in American Samoa, taught on television - elementary science, and English as a second language, headmaster of a private school in Hawaii, worked for the National Aeronautics & Space Administration as assistant professor of aerospace education at Oklahoma State University and at California State University, Chico, taught astronomy and space science for the Mathematics & Science Center in Richmond, VA, taught Astronomy at Virginia Commonwealth University, participated in Cosmonaut Training Program in Star City Russia.
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