Escaping the Wrong Way from New Jersey in WINTER

On February 15, 2021 By mvschulzeIn 1990's, Airplanes, Career, concern, Daytrip, driving, New Jersey, New York, Observation, Perspectives, Photography, Planes, Pondering, snow, Winter2 Comments

Newark Airport – Terminal ‘C.’ Early morning, quite a few years ago. “Florida?” “Hawaii?” …I could only dream!

Retired now, but a glimpse back to years of employment often revealed necessary travel. How nice! But mid-winter? It meant up early in the cold, managing the slippery roads to the airport, and shuffle off to …Buffalo, or Detroit, or some other frozen landascape.Renting a car was the norm. Bringing it back in one piece was the expectation.

Yeah, there was work to be done, and yes, often pretty landscapes in between.

But, at the end of some of those days, there was always a little nervous anticipation, often by the windows of the waiting room, pretending to read “USA Today” while supressing the notion of helplessly skidding or sliding down the runway in that plane out there. I would maybe think: Is this the fun part yet?

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M 🙂

Enforcement Squad

On November 25, 2020 By mvschulzeIn Birds, Car, Career, driving, New York, Perspectives, Photography, Pondering, Road trip, Travel5 Comments

As seen some years ago on a cloudy day in New York State

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Tokyo, Pan Am, the SST and Hawaii

On June 25, 2020June 25, 2020 By mvschulzeIn 1980's, Adventure, Airplanes, Beach, Career, Hawaii, Photography, Pondering, Travel5 Comments

As a follow-up to my previous post here back in the 1980’s, I departed from Narita Airport in Tokyo on an overnight and almost empty PAN AM 747 to Hawaii. I would meet my wife, Jeanne, as she arrived from New York, where there was a glimpse of the British Airways Concorde Super Sonic Transport, at that time providing regular transatlantic service at over 1300 MPH (~ 2100 kph.)

**Above:** **British Airways SST as seen landing at JFK, NY, March, 1981**

**Above: From the waiting room at Narita Airport, …my overnight ride to Hawaii.**

**Sleep, stretched out on empty seats, was easy on the overnight, above …and approaching Honolulu, below.**

**Above: Jeanne arriving from the mainland, later that afternoon.**

**Above: From our balcony in Waikiki. Rainbow courtesy of “Pineapple Showers.”**

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Covering the world – Second Posting

On January 14, 2019October 26, 2021 By mvschulzeIn Art, Career, LOGO, PhotographyLeave a comment

Note: Originally posted January 2019. One of my personal favorites, but seemingly with few responses, I decided to repost it now, 10/27/21. (M!)

This is my coffee cup. It dates back to my career days, which brought me, in part, inside the world of newspaper production – including the Gannett Company, a major publisher of newspapers and “USA Today” with distribution worldwide.

I’ve always admired its brand LOGO, which first appeared in the early 1980s when “USA Today” was introduced. That iconic newspaper was eventually printed and distributed pretty much simultaneously at numerous facilities across the United States, and in Europe. All print sites produced the same content, which was uploaded to satellites from the company headquarters just outside Washington DC. and received by the local print/distribution sites. Accordingly, this wonderful logo imaged not only the “G” covering the world but, the black image of an uplink-downlink “state of the art” satellite communications antenna.