Paddling on Lake Durant

These images show a beautiful scene as my wife Harriet and I paddled the length of Lake Durant this morning. The sky was gorgeous, the water was calm and warm, and we were the only people on the lake! What the pictures do not show are the thick beds of milfoil below the surface, and the unbelievably annoying swarms of stable flies that were biting us the entire time. I had brought a fly swatter with me since the flies have been very annoying on Indian Lake, but this was ridiculous!! I killed at least 200 flies in 90 minutes (see picture #11) See the whole album in my photo gallery!

Finding the river with the Hornbeck Lovers paddling group

Last Sunday July 8th, Harriet and I joined Tom Bessette's group known as the Hornbeck Lovers Group as they picked the perfect day to paddle the 3-mile Cedar River Fow, then find and paddle up the Cedar River for 1.5 miles. Check out my photo album on my Facebook page at:

 https://www.facebook.com/daniel.way2/media_set?set=a.10155713736951446.1073741849.578196445&type=3

and learn more about the Hornbeck Lovers at:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/351272311440/about/

Great turnout at the Empire State Aerosciences Museum!

I had a great time presenting my PowerPoint talk about the role of the B-29 in ending World War II at the Empire State Aerosciences Museum yesterday! The audience was very attentive and asked great questions. I advise anyone interested in the history of aircraft to visit this museum!

Back from ten days in Iceland!

Harriet and I just returned from a 9-day vacation in Iceland. It was an unforgettable experience! Our usually good luck with weather when travelling deserted us, but we made the best of it. For the first few days we fought sleetstorms driving BB-sized iceballs 30 MPH into our faces, alternating with brief sunny spells as we explored the southern coast and the Golden Circle. The nicest weather day was spent exploring the Snaefellsnes Peninsula, where we visited Grundarfjordur, Olafsvik, the Snaefellsjokull glacier, Mount Kirkjufell, black lava cliffs along the southern coast, and driving through the 6-km Hvalfjardargong tunnel under the Hvalfjardsveit bay. We visited many famous waterfalls including Gullfoss, Skogafoss, Seljalandsfoss;  the hot springs at Geysir, the beautiful rift valley in Thingvellir National Park, and the amazing Raurfarholshellir lava tunnel near Selfoss. Our hotel room looked out over the Reyjavik harbor, and we were able to watch workers repainting and repairing large ships right outside our window. The food was amazingly good-and expensive! I tasted cod head, fermented shark, and dried fish. (I can only recommend the cod head). As a bonus, we flew directly over Greenland on the way home and were treated to an amazing view of the beautiful but utterly inhospitable arctic landscape. Check out the 81 photos in the Iceland photo album in my photo gallery.

Thank you SUNY Adirondack!

Yesterday I was honored to speak in Adirondack Hall at the SUNY Adirondack campus as part of the Dr. Norman A. Enhorning Lecture Series. I was able to talk about my World War II book We Were There and about the vital role of the B-29 Superfortress in winning the war. There was a big audience and everyone stayed awake through the entire talk! Thank to Yvonne Goodwin for inviting me to participate in the series, and I hope to be back next year to talk about a comparison of my rural medical practice with that of another rural physician who wrote a book (illustrated with his own photographs) about his medical career over 100 years before mine!