My reflections on the challenges of collating and writing my posts for this year's A to Z challenge. #AtoZchallenge #personalhistory #travel
Flying can be scary either at international airports or small "bush" airstrips. #AtoZchallenge2025 #personalhistory #trave; #Gurney
All the Ss we've visited. #AtoZchallenge #personalhistory #travel
UAS, United Airlines and LAS
My 2025 A to Z theme is Airports, Airstrips, Aircraft, and Airlines I’ve known and flown with. I’ll be using IATA codes where they’re available. My inner travel agent emerges at this point as I’m the FTO (family travel organiser) and now, the online travel agent. UAS…
My A to Z themes to date
Somewhat to my surprise, this was my 9th participation in the A to Z blogging challenge, so I thought I'd revisit the topics I'd written about over the years. A to Z 2025 Airports, Airstrips, Aircraft, and Airlines I’ve known and flown with, using IATA codes where they’re…
An intriguing, if lengthy, story of just one Bomber Command crash during WWII. #worldwar2 #RAAF
My first helicopter ride and some Top End visits as well as countries visited in this #AtoZ2025challenge #travel #personalmemories #NorthernTerritory
From PNG to ski planes and how we did so many trips. #AtoZchallenge #pesonalhistory #travel
From Europe to Asia. From Peace to War. #AtoZchallenge2025 #personalhistory #travel #Venice #Vietnam #ANZACDay
From snow in Canada to a remote part of Australia. #AtoZchallenge2025
#personalhistory #travel
My 2025 A to Z theme is Airports, Airstrips, Aircraft, and Airlines I’ve known and flown with. I’ll be using IATA codes where they’re available. My inner travel agent emerges at this point as I’m the FTO (family travel organiser) and now, the online travel agent. THR Mehrabad International Airport, Tehran, Iran It’s been informative to learn from Wikipedia, that some of the airports we flew into in the 70s have changed and also have different names.
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My 2025 A to Z theme is Airports, Airstrips, Aircraft, and Airlines I’ve known and flown with. I’ll be using IATA codes where they’re available. My inner travel agent emerges at this point as I’m the FTO (family travel organiser) and now, the online travel agent. SYD Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport, Sydney, NSW, Australia I hadn’t been to Sydney until 1968, when I went to a conference for a university group.
My 2025 A to Z theme is Airports, Airstrips, Aircraft, and Airlines I’ve known and flown with. I’ll be using IATA codes where they’re available. My inner travel agent emerges at this point as I’m the FTO (family travel organiser) and now, the online travel agent. UAS Samburu Oryx or Samburu Buffalo Springs? Kenya, Africa There is some conflicting information about this airstrip in the Samburu National Reserve as there are/were…
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Somewhat to my surprise, this was my 9th participation in the A to Z blogging challenge, so I thought I'd revisit the topics I'd written about over the years. A to Z 2025 Airports, Airstrips, Aircraft, and Airlines I’ve known and flown with, using IATA codes where they’re available. This is an aide memoir of our travels for ourselves and our family.
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As so often happens with me and these challenges, my theme is only forming when the starter’s gun goes off. Friends who are more thoughtful and prepared, often have their own program already mapped out, and many posts written. I hadn’t planned to join in this year though I’d had an idea back in January but decided it would be too political and contentious.
CAUTION: Some people may find the content of this post confronting and distressing. It started simply enough as these things sometimes do but became quite the research rabbit warren. Why not grab a drink of your choice and join me. My friend Ursula C Krause, whom I met at Roots Tech London 2019, is a professional German genealogist at…
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My 2025 A to Z theme is Airports, Airstrips, Aircraft, and Airlines I’ve known and flown with. I’ll be using IATA codes where they’re available. My inner travel agent emerges at this point as I’m the FTO (family travel organiser) and now, the online travel agent. How many countries have we visited by flying into an airport? XXXIV Feel free to blip over this list, and perhaps read the stories below…
My 2025 A to Z theme is Airports, Airstrips, Aircraft, and Airlines I’ve known and flown with. I’ll be using IATA codes where they’re available. My inner travel agent emerges at this point as I’m the FTO (family travel organiser) and now, the online travel agent. WWK Wewak Airport (also known as Boram Airport), Wewak, PNG Wewak was another airport we travelled to specifically for visits to family.
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My 2025 A to Z theme is Airports, Airstrips, Aircraft, and Airlines I’ve known and flown with. I’ll be using IATA codes where they’re available. My inner travel agent emerges at this point as I’m the FTO (family travel organiser) and now, the online travel agent. VCE Venice Marco Polo Airport, Venice, Italy On previous holidays to Venice, we had arrived by train, but in 2018 we flew in from Barcelona, via Rome with Alitalia.
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My 2025 A to Z theme is Airports, Airstrips, Aircraft, and Airlines I’ve known and flown with. I’ll be using IATA codes where they’re available. My inner travel agent emerges at this point as I’m the FTO (family travel organiser) and now, the online travel agent. YVR Vancouver International Airport, Sea Island, Richmond, Vancouver, Canada We were very excited to finally get to see Canada and this was our gateway in 2017, after RootsTech in Salt Lake.
