A challenge to Xmarks members.....

**GMan** · 28th August 04, 02:44 PM

Originally Posted by Graham

What's the big white building with a dome like St.Pauls Cathedral?

Blu is right to a degree Graham. That is the US Capitol Building and houses both the US Senate and House of Representatives.

Those are fantastic pictures Andrew

**Rob Wright** · 28th August 04, 07:35 PM

I've always wanted to do the tour of the Trinity Site(where they dropped the first test atom bomb, they do two tours a year),need to check if they allow cameras. Because of the background radiation they are pretty strict on what they allow in.

Rob Wright

**Blu (Ontario)** · 28th August 04, 09:38 PM

Originally Posted by Rob Wright

I've always wanted to do the tour of the Trinity Site...

What an awsome idea!! I bought a couple of documentaries on the trinity site and bomb development a couple of years ago and I've often thought it would be an amazing thing to see first hand. No doubt doing it in a kilt would be a real blast!

**Graham** · 29th August 04, 04:18 AM

or a picture of standing kilted in the city of Hiroshima, that would be a nice landmark too!

**Rob Wright** · 29th August 04, 09:13 AM

Blu, I believe the next tour is in October so we shall see.

ROb Wright

**Rigged** · 29th August 04, 11:30 AM

Last year, my wife and I went to Florida to visit my father and to see the Everglades and tour the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida.
http://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/vi...ions/index.asp

Me in front of the Space Shuttle model in Space Shuttle Plaza. We ran into another UK wearer from Oregon, but he'd let his wife talk him out of wearing his Utilikilt on the trip. After seeing me, they both wished he'd worn the kilt (TTOSBT).

For me, the most moving part of the trip was the Saturn V Center where we sat overlooking a recreation of the control room when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon. It had the actual monitors and controls used for the moon shot and landing.

The chairs were draped with company t-shirts representing the men who sat at those stations. The overhead display showed images taken from the lunar module and lander, while the control room showed the console displays timed with the actual voices of the ground crew.

It was like being there when it happened. Those few minutes were worth the entire trip to Florida.
http://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/vi...olloSaturn.asp

Sherri and I on the tour as close to a launch gantry as visitors are allowed to get.

The tour guide told us that security isn't a problem because they have 6,000 security guards on duty 24 hours a day: Alligators.

**Blu (Ontario)** · 29th August 04, 01:36 PM

Originally Posted by Rigged

Last year, my wife and I went to Florida to visit my father and to see the Everglades and tour the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida.....

Cooooool!!!
I was at the Johnson Control center in Houston in 1980. (I didn't even own a kilt at the time.) I'd love to see a launch at the cape some day though. Great pictures!