I think the farthest south I've been is Honolulu.
Nope, wrong, just checked, Tortola in the British Virgin Islands is slightly further south.
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I think the farthest south I've been is Honolulu.
Nope, wrong, just checked, Tortola in the British Virgin Islands is slightly further south.
This is an interesting game we are playing.
Farthest south I have been is Caracas, Venezuela.
Fact: t-shirt is short for tyrannosaurus shirt. It’s named that because of the short arms.
Some ports were refueling only with one or two days for provisions, but some ports we would spend a week or two. Sometimes returning a couple of times, such as Naples (I took a 4 day weekend to tour Rome) and Villafrance. One or two week stays were (in no particular order, and probably some misspelled): Rio, Lima, Panama City, San Juan, Virgin Islands, Gitmo (yuck), Antwerp, Brest, Malaga, Edinburg, Barcelona, Halifax, Istanbul, many ports in the Caribbean, and probably a few others that I don’t recall of the top of my head.
The ships usually posted a list of blacklisted areas to avoid in some ports. I used these as my guide to “must see” areas. Liberty (free time) while in port was fairly abundant.
And you’re welcome for my service. I managed to have some fun and see some of the world despite being in during Nam. As you can see, as an East Coast sailor, I was never in danger (except for sailing through 1 hurricane and 3 tropical storms).
My special thanks goes to those who served and were in peril, and those who didn’t come home.
Yesterday I had my fall conference with the parents of a kid who’s new to my school this year, as a 7th grader. He’s been missing his friends and having a hard time feeling at home, but academically, he’s doing great…very smart kid with the right attitude. His parents asked him if he wanted to go back to his old school, and he said, “No, it would make wilson sad…I know he really cares about me and he would want me to stay here and keep trying.”
So anyway, I suppose I spent my life well this week. 🥺
Furthest north: Oslo, Norway
Furthest south: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Furthest east: using Eastern time zone as center, Berlin
Furthest west: Oahu