...still dazzled and excited to see that the world survived it, we returned to our party point from the night after to discover NO destrucztion but only a LOT of cleaning up to do. We easily collected about 1000 champagne corks here for rememberance!
This is a COLOUR photograph, believe it, enlarge and see the road sign!
Dec 23, 1997 12:00 AMCorporation Headquarters
There is no other city in the USA that has a many branches or affiliation than ATlanta, Georgia. I never heard of it untill the olympics and visiting a sister bcame to find it is the headquaters of a lot of corporations like coca-cola an CNN.
Both offer most interesting "hands-on" day tours, at CNN we appeared live in a discussion show about the "Titanic".
This picture is a dream but sadly a mockup!
Jul 01, 1995 12:00 AMConcert in the Park
Like many I travelled a far way then to a city I never thought I would eventually live in but we made it happen, together with friends we shared a whole day in the olympic stadium (feeled "personally") close together with Joe Cocker, Elton John, Eros Ramazzoti and Rod Stewart. It was one of the best days of my life, music is!
Jun 06, 1995 12:00 AMWorking in Munich
Working in the construction industry can mean traveling a lot too. Specially us young and unmarried staff were sent to all corners of the country (or world). My bosses sent me to those places the others didn't wanna go, like Virginia in the Karoo desert or Leipzig across the old iron curtain. I was lucky in 1995 to get a construction site on the main drag of Munich, only 5 minutes walk from the Hofbräuhaus and in the most safest yet culturally diverse city in the world!
Image is a collage of 10 pictures I took from one of the cranes. This was manually stitched with a special method of mine which I still hope I can patent as a digital method when I find the correct programmer and sponsor.
Mar 30, 1995 12:00 AMFirst New York Experience
From Europe, often best airline connections go via JFK or Newwark, so I had the chance to stop for two days and see just what this "big apple" was all about. I met an old university friend who works there now and so got to see how people live, talk, eat, playand get hecktic there! To be admired, the NewYorkers have their own special way of doing things, from breakfast till nightlife!
The weather was miserable but I did get a bit experiences in Manhattan although sadly everything seemed grey and black&white after a few weeks of colourful Florida sunshine.
Time limited for towers, I chose the Empire State Biuilding first, thinking that it might be demolished one day. Still, fantastic view over the whole island and all the waterways and bridges. The Statue of Liberty and WTC where only just visible through the misty days atmosphere but all the vague sillouettes could be made out.
Forget outside, New York lives inside and the shops and shows and malls and experiences got quite colourful. Visiting Madison Square Gardens was a must for me. The show on at the time was a circus, B&B Brothers, what a show. Stageshows I had seen plenty but where also inviting.
On the way back to the hotel at JFK we were stopped at a traffic light for about 15 minutes untill we saw the president speed pass with his 30 vehicle convoy .....
May 05, 1994 12:00 AMRamada Hotel
I worked in Leipzig for two years and helped build the "Brockhaus Zentum" including a Ramada Hotel.
I was the first one ever to use the swimming pool after it was filled for a water pressure test and after proudly exiting a foreman added saying that he was proud to have been the first person to piss in it"! :- (
Dec 11, 1992 12:00 AMWorking to Travel
This year was hard for me, the first learning the German language and culture. I was lucky to work for a developing new renovation project. It was the basis of my experience in Europe and doors to many other opportunities. My love for nature and small animals, one thing I will never forget are the squirrels that always ran across busy roads sometimes between the axis of vehicles. Being Africa these little tricksters baffled me. A few times while driving or walking on the industry grounds, I saw them with near hits with cars and trucks screaming by! Nature vs Man's transport!
I didn't like this! Still concentrating on my very stressful job, one evening, in my own time, I built and mounted an un-official road sign that I mounted at a strategic position. Two days later the factory added it's name on top of the sign and was praised for nature conservation, all reported in the local press!
"The Squirelz Path Rulez!"
Sep 25, 1992 12:00 AMOktoberfest 1992
My first [now 14th] year of Oktoberfest in Munich. This 1992 I visited twice coming in from the Salzburg area once private and once with the company. Being from Africa, this was eye-opening and spent quite more than budgeted riding games and enjoying sharing one small place with 100000 others from the whole world, even met someone that lived only a kilometer from my own house!
Here considered a normal company outing, our boss invited us and paid for a meal and beer but I still gave out DM200 for all the rides that I had missed when I was a kid in the African bundu!
At the end of the day we spent an hour looking for the boss and realised that we had all learned much more about each other!
Dec 18, 1988 12:00 AMMalawi Adventure
One of my best adventures ever because it it to the very unpredictable and unsafe central Africa.
Two weeks fly-in camping safari was the just that what 5 of us needed. Going through all of that was unexpected made even better friends out of us!
Highlights were certainly Lake Malawi, wotjtekd enjoyed that too. A four day hike up and around Mount Mulanje was exhausting [pic found :-)] and extreamly dangerous.
See the sign in the picture: funny word in the local african language for "danger"! :-)
The "switzerland" of Africa!
Dec 14, 1986 12:00 AMAmazon Adventure
It is tradition at my university that students work together toward an international tour at the end of their third year. To raise funds, we sold cokes and hotdogs, arranged fests and fashion shows, created magazines, got paid sponsors and even begged in streets or ran around campus in undies to raise every dollar we could!
We did, and 24 of us visited Brazil on a 3-week "study" tour. Success allowed us top hotels and exotic tours. The whole party I filmed on a Betamovie which should be available soon as feature film thanks to DVD and digital editing ???
I swore to return to the Amazon oneday and after visiting so many other countries, still want to till today, also the similar Cost Rica eco-tourism?
