God bless you all.

Condolences. Think about my dad everyday. It’s been 18 months. Sometimes I tear up, but more often now I smile or laugh at a memory. Wishing you feelings of nostalgia and comfort.

Hey Daedaluscan, finally stopped in at your beach at Hesquiat. The bay was chock full of gray whales!

Easy to self-isolate out here - only other aircraft we saw in four hours flying was an Erickson 'Crane working a gully at the south end of Nootka. Checked out Calvin Falls and Vargas while we were at it.

You'll forget France soon enough.

soaringhiggy wrote:my dad loved to fish. We used to fish a lot. I love the pics of the young man with the salmon. Dad died tonight at 5 pm. I had to say it somewhere.

I’m so, so sorry for your loss, man. I’ll keep you guys in my thoughts and prayers.

Thanks for the thought all. I just needed to say it out loud and this was the place I guess. When I saw the pics of dads and kids fishing it brought back so many memories.

If you still have your parents, embrace them. I was lucky I live on the same property as mom and dad and I knew them very well as adults and friends.

This is a great place, sometimes one has to say what they are thinking at the time.

Sun is coming up and life moves forward.

I’m so sorry Soaringhiggy. I can’t even imagine.

So sorry soaringhiggy. Life comes and goes so fast, but you will always have those memories.

Very sorry to hear that. Im sure you have fond memories.

My dad loved to fish too, and hes been gone ten years. Miss him every day, and think of him when I fish.

We decided to do some social isolation on the river. Gotta get the boat rigged.



I noticed one of my rocket boxes had something inside so I opened it up to see...Score!!!

Karmutzen wrote:Hey Daedaluscan, finally stopped in at your beach at Hesquiat. The bay was chock full of gray whales!

Easy to self-isolate out here - only other aircraft we saw in four hours flying was an Erickson 'Crane working a gully at the south end of Nootka. Checked out Calvin Falls and Vargas while we were at it.

You'll forget France soon enough.

Sweet, maybe heading up that way tomorrow.

Driving back from a crane job today on I-15, I noticed what seemed to be unusually heavy RV traffic, all northbound. That is common in the summer, just seemed a tad early in the year yet for the numbers I saw. Most had ATV's, boats, etc., also common. I guess they, like the spring breakers in Florida, didn't get the memo to limit exposure to others? Who knows, maybe they were bugging out to the middle of nowhere.

I noticed what seemed to be unusually heavy RV traffic, all northbound.

My guess would be wintering Canadians, heading home from southern US/Mexico a tad early due to the whole virus thing, cancellation of travel insurance, risk of poverty from tangling with the health system out of country. Some vigilantes are blockading roads here to keep "outsiders" out, might become more widespread.

soaringhiggy wrote:my dad loved to fish. We used to fish a lot. I love the pics of the young man with the salmon. Dad died tonight at 5 pm. I had to say it somewhere.

I'm so sorry to hear this!! May he rest in peace and peace be with all of you!
John

May wanna check those numbers my broer.....

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/coronav ... 16/1770310

Gonna get really bad there in a hurry...

soaringhiggy wrote:Dad died tonight at 5 pm. I had to say it somewhere.

I am so sorry to hear that. I lost my dad when I was in my early 20's. If you are young, take a night off/week drinking and chasing and spend it with your dad or mom. You don't know when they will be gone.

courierguy wrote:Driving back from a crane job today on I-15, I noticed what seemed to be unusually heavy RV traffic, all northbound. That is common in the summer, just seemed a tad early in the year yet for the numbers I saw. Most had ATV's, boats, etc., also common. I guess they, like the spring breakers in Florida, didn't get the memo to limit exposure to others? Who knows, maybe they were bugging out to the middle of nowhere.

Interesting observation. In our town there are more second homeowners than full time residents. LOTS of them have arrived here over the last week.

Pete

Karmutzen wrote:

I noticed what seemed to be unusually heavy RV traffic, all northbound.

My guess would be wintering Canadians, heading home from southern US/Mexico a tad early due to the whole virus thing, cancellation of travel insurance, risk of poverty from tangling with the health system out of country. Some vigilantes are blockading roads here to keep "outsiders" out, might become more widespread.

Bingo, I think you nailed it. I couldn't see the license plates, but it seemed like an even heavier RV traffic flow then I see when a typical summer tourist season is in full blown mode, and it's only mid March!

Update edit: another jaunt on I-15, this time looking at the north bound plates. With 5 miles I got passed by three RV's, all with Alberta plates.

I made a quick stop today at a grocery store after my HVAC job, I had the cashier put the change from my 20 bill right in the bag so I wouldn't get her cooties. But then I reached into the coin thingie that the change rolls into, and scooped up my 35 cents. Not to be alarmist, but that's probably like licking the bathroom door handle.....next time I'm someplace where they use those coin returners, I'll put a glove on or use my shirt tail or just leave it. No, ain't leaving it....too cheap, maybe just have a paper napkin in a pocket just for that use. I am far from being a germophobe but I do feel this is just common sense for the time being. Didn't touch my face while driving back to the crane shed, washed my hands once there, what the hell, can't hurt.

Apparently, wife has already had it, got it back in December. Turns out it has been around longer than they are telling folks. It was a long lasting (4 week) hacking really bad chest cold like thing for her. It seems, I asymptomatic partially perhaps due to being Type O+ blood. A paper just released by the Chinese yesterday showed that Type O+ has a very mild reaction to the virus and Type A+ has the strongest reaction and highest mortality. My wife, who is Japanese, has Type B+ so she got the middling reaction. The Blood Type reaction is accurately paralleling SARs in this respect. One of my other pilot buds got it in January along with his wife, also a pilot. It persists for quite a while, weeks, he went to three different doctors with no good treatment or advice offered. My wife thinks I was mild due to always working in total hell holes around the world. Giving me some kind of well exercised immune system, perhaps also in addition to having had an insane number of vaccinations (two WHO books).

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/blood-type-a-more-vulnerable-to-coronavirus/

As for Africa, well West Cape has the population of Arizona and being a bit larger than Texas, you don't run into many people. Joberg, which I avoid like the plague, but for other reasons. Is densely populated. I try not to even fly through the place. On the other hand, South Africa's health system is far better than our. Better accessibility and better doctors. They did do the first heart transplants there in Cape Town back in the 70's. While I was in uni, I was hospitalized at UCLA medical center, two weeks and the wankers could not diagnose I had malaria. The most common disease on the planet! Then the 10 year interaction with Navy and Air Force Doctors, gave me little to no respect for US doctors and our our lame health care system. As I sit her typing with 10 stitches in my shoulder. Seems a bit of my skin has rebelled against me, an apparently friendly form of Melanoma. Now that has me worked up, but the doc says I can still make magazine subscriptions, not to worry, he got it all and it isn't the aggressive kind. US doctor, I feel so re-assured.

The local air evac crews are wearing respirators and full face protection now. Pilots and their families can be canaries for these kind of things.

Great video on pandemics and the importance of infection rates...I could understand it because it's a cartoon.

https://youtu.be/BtN-goy9VOY

Thank's Hammer, I agree, great explanation on why we need to do what we need to and how the disease will effect us is we do get infected.

Tim

Joburg is just flat dagerous. Capetown is much better place to be for sure. Joburg did not get any better after the brits.