Not There Yet
Eclectic essays podcasted from the third decade of the 21st century.
Displaying all 7 Episode of Not There Yet with the tag “travel”.
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The Return of the Golden Age of Air Travel
October 25th, 2020 | 23 mins 27 secs
airlines, memories, society, transportation, travel
Getting back on a plane may look more like the past than the future.
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Listening to Diana Krall in Nizhnevartovsk
January 20th, 2018 | 14 mins 8 secs
homesickness, life lessons, podcast, russia, travel
In this episode, host Terence C. Gannon recounts his time as an accidental tourist in Western Siberia in 1998. It was a time and a place so far away, and so strange, he learned something about what connects us all to home.
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The Future of Warfare is Lighter Than Air
January 11th, 2018 | 16 mins 15 secs
airships, history, memories, technology, travel, world war ii
Both in the 1970s, and then again starting in the 1990s through to present, trips to the Oregon Coast have featured the magnificent airship hangars at Tillamook. This past summer's trip triggered a cascade of memories of what was, and what might have been.
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Mexico City, 1969
December 21st, 2017 | 16 mins
family, life lessons, memories, roadtrip, travel
As my parents enter their late eighties and approach life with delicacy and deliberation, I am reminded of a time when they seemingly threw caution and good sense to the wind and took their young family on an epic road trip. They knew what they were doing: creating a vivid past for a then distant future.
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Rosetta Stone
November 9th, 2017 | 19 mins 58 secs
careers, language, life lessons, memories, travel
A journey from ancient Egypt to modern day as an exploration of language, understanding and a better way for us to communicate with each other.
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Return to Rocky Knoll
August 31st, 2017 | 7 mins 8 secs
hobby, model aircraft, oregon, slope soaring, travel
Sometimes you gain the most by taking the most away. Slope soaring model sailplanes is flight at its most minimal, enabled by nothing more than wind blowing up a hill.
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We All Love to Travel
July 13th, 2017 | 7 mins 30 secs
automotive, climate change, environment, podcast, road trip, travel
We all want to be good environmental citizens, but achieving that will require—at least for a while—giving up some things in life we truly cherish.