Well lookie there, a new chapter.
First I’ll post up replies I was working on from the last one and then I can go see what this one is all about.
As a land-lubber, I have to ask: what's the difference?
One is spelled B-O-A-T
and the other is S-H-I-P.
Captain Oblivious meets Captain Obvious…
I think it's just a convention
that carried on from days long gone.
Very true.
The closest thing to a rule designating the difference (and it’s a loose rule at best) is: ships can carry boats. Vessel types that started out diminutive enough to be carried aboard a larger ship but then grew to ship proportions over time often retain the older moniker.
Yep.
Many a tale has started with:
"When I was little..."
Smart A**…
Don't recall if I've seen that one.
Maybe?
Certain have seen the Star Trek one.
Excellent 1957 film with Robert Mitchum and Curt Jürgens.
I picked up the DVD in the cheap bin so I’m sure it could be found out in the ether pretty easily.
Very much worth the watch.
I like that kind of danger.
Agreed…
I admit flat out that I plagiarize many several of his travel notions.
I had a handful of pennies.
I would drop one every now and then
and count the seconds.
That sounds about right…
…ish…
That, I was not aware of. Huh!
Yep… there’s only one Type-VII left anywhere.
That’d be interesting to board.
Manitowoc, WI…
The USS Cobia (SS-245) - a Gato Class sub (the main US production class during WWII)
It’s the primary part of the Wisconsin Maritime Museum.
At 1250 miles from you it ain’t a simple Sunday drive, but it is a smidgen close then Chicago.
Oh, and if you were nutty enough to catch the ferry across Lake Michigan from Manitowoc over to Muskegon, there’s another one over there: USS Silversides (SS-236) at the Great Lakes Naval Memorial & Museum.
There are a good number of subs spread about including in spots where you might not expect to find one. Say… like Oklahoma.
Bang your head on a torpedo
or wake up glowing in the dark...
Quite the Hobson, yes…
Well...
I get it.
Word gets out that a sub
is captured and all your
intelligence goes out the window.
Relatable to the point when Turing’s “Bomb” actually broke the Enigma, and they realized that if they tried to save everyone that day, they’d be saving no one else for considerably longer.
It'd be cool to put it on the Yorktown, though.
That would be a nice tribute to the recovery operations.
Maybe for a short traveling exhibit, but it will be seen by more folk where it is and I get that too.
Interesting choice of words.
I thought of "Awe inspiring".
Awe is a fine word.
What struck me as sobering is that everything we are, know, understand, love, hate… everything that is human is back there on that one little partly obscured sphere in the midst in the immense vastness of space.
I like how Carl Sagan put it:
“For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live
in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ...
on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. ...
That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very
good for us to understand that.”
Nope! But... knew it all already. 
(Well... I don't really count Spider.
It never went to the moon.)
I can see that…
Apollo-9 gets short shrift by nearly all historians (as does Apollo-7)
But without proving that the craft and all its new concepts work, there is no Apollo-11.
There may have been more firsts on that mission then on any other Apollo flight. So yeah, Spider didn’t leave Earth orbit, but I still like to count it.
Have you ever had the opportunity to see the HBO series “From the Earth to the Moon” from a while back? There is a chapter on that mission that I find interesting and entertaining.
Please tell me you've seen
the movie Hidden Figures?
Saw that one in one of the better theaters.
Excellent look at part of our hidden history.
Similar to the story of the Mercury 13.
Hmmm... So which is better?
That spot (name?) or The Remedy?
Well, better is a function of what experience or cuisine you’re looking for.
They’re both good and there is generally a lot of pretty good eats in the area.
The Remedy is my favorite brew pub and the German inspired grub is most excellent
Not into beer; they also make their own root beer, but I don’t care for sassafras so I can’t speak for or against it (note: there’s also a fairly righteous German restaurant in the area: “The Waldhorn”).
Now as for Drive-In spots…
There are actually two classics in Charlotte (both in business since the 50s) and both have shown up on DD&D.
First off is the “South 21 Drive-In” known for their “Super Boy” but also gets a nod from many for fried chicken (although the real chicken experience would be at “Price’s Chicken Coop”)
My favorite Drive-In though is the slightly quirkier “Barbeque King”.
They do the standards including some particularly good onion rings and as the name suggests offer a decent pulled pork sandwich (but I’d take you elsewhere if you were in the mood for some “Q”). The trick in the tale though is they’re version of barbeque chicken. First off they start with house made fried chicken (also good on its own) and then while it’s hot out of the fryer, dunk in strait into their vinegar based que sauce. I like to let it sit a bit to so that the crust sucks in all the goodness (we usually do take out so it has time to mellow). It’s a local thing that may not suite everyone, but I love the stuff.
There are plenty of other places as well if you’re in the mode for some other type of experience.
Barbeque, Southern Seafood, Breakfast, Chef Specials, Cajun, Calzone/ Stromboli, Mediterranean, Indian, Mexican… I’ll have a different answer for each variety.
