Quasimodo says, "The Horns, The Horns"

I'm on my second day where I feel relatively jet-lag free.  This is as good a time as any, to mention what is different about Traffic in Bangalore.  There seems to be a whole new (but not all new to my experience) rules for traffic navigation. Despite what the numerous signs and dotted lines suggest, lanes are defined by the width of the vehicles next to you right now. Traffic signal lights are suggestions, that you follow only so far as someone in the other direction is tired of waiting for a green and is willing to put the front of their vehicle in front of your movement....

11 Nov 2010 · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Driving Aircraft (part 2) [Updated]

Some of you may remember a previous post in a similar style. I saw this on Oct 22, but I didn't get a chance to post these until today... I spotted it up ahead, and grabbed my camera. It's just an unusual thing to see... I was traveling across the Minnesota River's Bloomington Ferry Bridge, and decided to take pictures while I could. He was going pretty slow....

25 Oct 2008 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Saturday's Day Trip

I couldn't have asked for better weather. Sure, it's Minnesota and it's getting cool, but there was barely a cloud in the sky... Darwin and Ray are some co-workers who are in town for a month, and this is their last full weekend in Minnesota. I had offered earlier to take them to see Lake Superior. Darwin, in particular, had mentioned how much he wanted to see the great lakes... so I figured I'd do the best I could, and show him the big one that's only a few hours drive from here....

5 Oct 2008 · 2 min · Gary Allen Vollink

This Day in Gary's History...

September 11, 2001 I was on a consulting assignment to help install and configure a web based software product at Caterpillar in Pontiac, Illinois. I arrived at the Bloomington, IL airport on the morning of September 10th, and was asked to visit the headquarters in East Peoria on September 11th. To save the customer money, another consultant agreed to lend me his pickup truck for the drive to East Peoria (on the other end of the state)....

11 Sep 2008 · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink