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We’ve just stopped by for overnight in Duluth, Minnesota, on our way to Oshkosh, and it appears to be the first place where I could get an access to the Internet. We’ve driven already some 2500 km on the roads across the half of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, a bit of Ontario, - to Red Lake, a small town where the Highway 105 ends, and the most reliable transport to get you further North is the aviation.

Which means presumably ‘planes on floats’. Some of these planes have been around here for more than 60 years, and they are still in very good shape. And the truth of this we have just checked out as we visited the ‘Norseman Festival’, a local Red Lake airshow featuring unique planes ‘built to last’.

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… Sounds like the ‘heredity really matters’.

She came to visit us from the ‘Cossacks’ Country’ - a region of Russia traditionally called ‘Kuban’ (nothing has to do with ‘Cuba’, though, and I was reflecting on it here), with a main city of Krasnodar. In old times it was called ‘Ekaterinodar’, which meant a ‘big gift’ to the cossacks from Katherine the Great, a legendary Russian Empress .

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OK, off we go..

It’s going to be a long journey, - the one to Red Lake, Ontario.

Vacation time, and we are planning the trip across half of the country to see the Norseman Festival. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Summer in Montreal’. How’ s this in French? - should ask somebody…

It is very true, the summer is on in Montreal. Sure, it is warm in the city, and truly ’summer rains’ pumping the water onto its streets now and then. We watched one of them, as we approached RW 24R today, on July, 6th, at about 2:30 p.m.

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Here is my friend Alexei, and we took this picture in Krasnodar, in late 90s. He stands by the Yak-18T which he worked on at the time, maintaining and preparing it for flying.

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SEE VIDEO HERE

Tired!

Attempted to upload the video - just one short video, nothing more. And failed But tomorrow we go home!

Somewhere near Ottawa we had a crossing traffic, Boeing-767 going from right to the left, 2000 feet below, and I shot the quick video showing ‘basics’ of air traffic management, and what planes do when they meet at the crossroad.

(Nothing special in our case, the guys in other plane represented by ‘hollow diamond’ on the TCAS display were doing, probably, the same - just watched us, passers-by)

Should figure out why the video is being assigned .jpeg tag while originally it is .avi..

Alright, you’ll see it soon!

P.S.

Wait a minute! At the very last minute I’ve got it!

HERE IS VIDEO!

Tell you, almost ‘got lost’ navigating through the maze of winding roads in the ‘time and space continuum’. Working on the ‘Time Machine’ has turned to be a challenge as I switched back and forth between decades on the time line and two computer platforms (PC vs Mac;) in the mission control centre.

OK, let me just run the ‘reality test’, and I’ll be back (or ‘forward’) in Canada, and NOW - not for too long though, for we are going to look into the Canada’s history book.

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Get bored with ‘the decrepit Soviet-era junk’ I’ve been feeding up to the blog so far?

OK, take the seats in our Time Machine, buckle yourself up, and - off we go. To the Hollywood!

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