May 9 - NASA My next adventure

I'm at a NASA/JPL Educator seminar in Riverside, CA. Learning ways to present planned techniques for exploring Mars. I bet some will be transferable to Earth exploration and learning too. Mars will not just be for test pilots. 

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March 26 - Journey's End

Home again! Dinner with family. A nice homecoming. This journey has ended

March 26 - Last Leg

This Hotel, 4 Points Sheridan, has a Pokéstop, this mural. We collected on it many times in our short stay. Also, there were a lot of Pokémon we could collect from our room and the restaurant.

Now to pack up, catch the hotel shuttle to the airport, then catch the RobertQ bus shuttle to Detroit Metro where Suzie should be picking me up about 5 p.m. A family dinner, and home to my very own bed! That will mark the journey's end. It has been quite and adventure.

March 25 - The Journey Home begins.

At a relatively liesurely 7 a.m. My group taxied to Gatwick Airport. With Saturday's low traffic it only took an hour and a half. It really made me appreciate the US Interstates and belt ways!

The flight is supposed to take 7.5 hours. Marjorie is glad she has audio books to listen to, and had mixed feelings about finishing the knitting of her trip long project. It will have to be finished at home.

Am I glad to settle down for a good night's sleep! Tomorrow night my own bed at home!

March 24 - Last day, All about sailing

We joined Estha and went exploring the Cutty Sark, the fastest clipper ship. You can see some of the rigging and the metal plated hull. The living space was on the deck. There was some cabin space there, but it would make a freshman dorm room look spacious! The beds might fit me, but Marjorie would have to curl up like a snail to fit in them.

After that we checked out the Royal Naval College, and went to the Royal Observatory. I'm lying on the Prime Meridian. Much to my surprise, it is the third Prime Meridian at the observatory. Apparently as instruments improved and Royal Astronomers changed, it was moved 3 times. The one I am on is the current International Prime Meridian established in the 1884 by treaty. Since 70% of the nautical maps used it, it was a logical choice.

Tomorrow the taxi comes at 7 a.m. To take some of us to Gatwick Airport. Others leave later and are going through Heathrow Airport to western Canada. So our merry band is breaking up as our journey ends.

March 23 pt 2 - Closing Ceremony at Pax Lodge

We had our closing ceremony at Pax and said goodbye to Jes from the USA and Tadjea from Slovenia. Andrea was there for the singing part. We received our center pins, and and Challenges we had earned and a certificate for being here.

We then moved on to our "Campfire". They did the best they could not being able to have one outside, nor have a fireplace. We could do this at the school.

A group of Guides from Norway is here for the weekend. They joined us in our "campfire" song fest. They had a great song with lots of parts and motions. They had to keep good time or they would have banged each other. You can see arms flying and people bobbing up and down. They did it wonderfully and we all had a happy laugh and clapping after it was done. So we shared songs, and sang together. Fortunately their English is vastly better than my Norwegian.

March 23 - British Museum

Today is our unscheduled day. We went to the British Museum. They have a bit of everything, from every when!

I compared notes with a British Bear.

The hunk of stone is called the Rosetta Stone. It was the key to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphs. It has the same text in three languages, which scholars were able to break the "code" of the lost language of the Egyptians.

The Rosetta Stone was really old technology, and driving along the street was a Google street view camera car. How is that for old and new technologies?

Tonight is our event closing ceremony. Tomorrow is sort of a bonus day on our own. Saturday the journey home begins.