The (Virtual) Peripatetic Pensioner - Stage 4

Maps from Google Maps and all images from Street View.

Banked Distance  155.7 km/96.75 + 25 km = 180.7 km/112 mi.

- 56.3 km = 124.4 km/77.3 mi.

Stage 4.  Tonya and Alan's to YVR Departures:

1.  Oceanview Drive:

2.  Sunshine Coast Highway at Burton Road:

3.  Burton Road:

4.  Another View of Burton Road:

5.   Russell Road:

6.  Henry Road:

7.   Reed Road:

8.  View from North Road:

9.  Entrance to Langdale Ferry Terminal:

10.  The Ferry Terminal:

11.  Entering the Ferry:

12.  Inside the Ferry to Horseshoe Bay:

13.  The Great Trail, Horseshoe Bay:

14.  3700 Block of Marine Drive, West Vancouver:  

15.  Lions Gate Bridge, between the North Shore and Stanley Park:

16.  Stanley Park:

17.  Entering Vancouver at the start of Georgia Street (at Chilco):

18.  Cardero and Robson Streets:

19.  On the Burrard Street Bridge:

20.   The Arbutus Bike Path:

21.  Angus Drive:

22.  The Bike Trail at 64th Avenue:

23.  On the Arthur Laing Bridge:

24.  On Grant McConachie Way, Richmond:

25.  At YVR Departures (Vancouver International Airport):

Next stop will be Gatwick Airport.  The ride will recommence from arrivals at the North Terminal.

The (Virtual) Peripatetic Pensioner. Stage 3.

Maps from Google Maps and all images from Street View.

Banked Distance 140.4 km/87 mi.  +30.6 km/19 mi  = 171 km/105.5 mi

- 15.3 km = 155.7 km/96.75 banked

Stage 3.  Adam and Joy's to Tonya and Alan's.

1.  Ridgeview Drive:

2.  Laurel Avenue:

3.  Bay Road:

4.  Whitacre Road:

5.  Sunshine Coast Highway, just before Roberts Creek Provincial Park:

6.  Sunshine Coast Highway at the start of Gibsons:

7.  Sunshine Coast Highway and Oceanview Drive:

8.  Tonya and Alan's House:

The (Virtual) Peripatetic Pensioner - Stage 2

Maps from Google Maps and all images from Google Street View.

Banked distance:  115.6 km +29 km new ride = 144.6 km/90 mi.

- 4.2 km = 140.4 km/87 mi.

Stage 2.  Norma-Jean's to Joy and Adam's:

1.  Dolphin Street at Ocean (and Hackett Park):

2.  Sunshine Coast Highway in Sechelt:
  

3.  Sunshine Coast Highway at Monkeytree Lane:

 4.  Sunshine Coast Highway near coast:

5.  Sunshine Coast Highway near coast (2):

6.  Havies Road:

7.  Laurel Avenue:

8.  Joy and Adam's House on Ridgeview Drive:

The (Virtual) Peripatetic Pensioner = Stage 1

Maps from Google Maps and all images from Google Street View.

Banked distance: 177 km/110 mi.

- 71.4 km = 115.6 km /71.8 mi. 

Stage 1 - Home to Norma-Jean's:

1,  Leaving the complex:

2.  Lynn Valley Road at Upper Levels Highway - with typical Lynn Valley Weather:

3.  Grand Boulevard at 17th Street in North Vancouver - with much improved weather:

4.  17th Street and Jones Avenue, North Vancouver:

5.  Jones Avenue and Keith Road, North Vancouver:

6.  Marine Drive, just before the Lions Gate Bridge on-ramp:

7.  Marine Drive at Park Royal:

8.  Marine Drive at 29th Street, West Vancouver:

9. 3700 Block of Marine Drive, West Vancouver:

10.  Marine Drive at West Vancouver Marina:

11.  Horseshoe Bay Ferry Terminal:

12.  Leaving the Ferry at Langdale:

13.  Marine Drive, Gibsons:

14.  View from North Road, Gibsons:

15.  Davis Bay:

16.  Sechelt:

17.  Ocean Avenue at Hackett Park:

18.  Norma-Jean's building -- under construction when the image was taken:

Guest Lecture for History 12 at Sutherland, June 6, 2017.

Guest Lecture for History 12 at Sutherland, June 6, 2017.

These images were taken at the Count Ferdinand von Galen Titan Missile Museum Education and Research Center, near Tucson, Arizona, last Spring (when operational, this silo was known as complex 571-7, one of 54 Titan II silos in the US).  The image above is of a Titan II missile, in its silo.  It held a 9 megaton warhead.  The effective range was 10,000 km and the time from launch to blast was approximately 30 minutes.  The image below is a code book in the underground command center.

Thank you, Mrs. Panton, for inviting me back to Sutherland for this talk on the history of the Cold War Nuclear Conflict and our so-far successful attempts to prevent thermonuclear war.  Other world problems have been given much more prominence since the end of the Cold War, but the election of a new American President may change all that.  These weapons still exist in the thousands and, as they say, accidents do happen.

The lecture material can be found in my PowerPoint here.

If you are interested in learning more about the topic, I highly recommend that you see as many of the following videos as possible:

• Cold War Cuba 1959-1962
• The Cold War: MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction (1960-1972)
• The Cold War - Star Wars (1980-1988)
• Able Archer; 1883; The Brink of Apocalypse
• Q.E.E. - A guide to Armageddon (1982 Documentary)
• On the 8th Day (1984 Nuclear Winter Documentary)
• War - With Gwynne Dyer, Part 6 Notes on Nuclear War (1983)
• If You Love This Planet (1982) 

You might have a chuckle at the following Civil Defense videos.  In fact, policy makers never actually believed that populations could be protected against an all-out nuclear attack -- but they did want people to remain calm despite the possibility and certainly if a crisis took place.

• Atomic Alert (1951) Elementary Version
• Fallout: When And How To Protect Yourself 1959 U S Office Of Civil Defense
• FAMILY FALLOUT SHELTERS: Nuclear War for Housewives Vintage Film - 1960s American Civil Defense
• Duck And Cover (1951) Bert The Turtle - this is a must-see classic.
• Protect & Survive - 1970's UK Public infommercials On Nuclear War Preparation  

Although many films are not available directly online without being part of a subscription service, movie fans might like to watch the following films that are currently available to all:

• On the Beach (1959) Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Gregory Peck
• Fail Safe (1964) Henry Fonda, Walter Mathau
• The Day After (1983) Jason Robarts
• Threads (1984) - British docudrama from the mid-1980's deemed too frightening for the British television public. 
• By Dawn's Early Light (1990) James Earl Jones

Movies not listed above, but worth watching, include:

• Wargames (1983) - It may look hokey, but the storyline is fiction based on a real nuclear accident that took place when a training tape was mistakenly put into NORAD's mainframe computer.
• Testament (1983) - The experience of a small-town family that "survives" a nuclear exchange.
• Countdown to Looking Glass (1984) - Docudrama about a crisis in the Middle East.
• The Sacrifice (1986) - A man bargains with God to try to stop the nuclear holocaust.
• When the Wind Blows (1986) - Animated story of a retiree couple who try to survive nuclear war by using government pamphlets on how to do so.
• The Road (2009) - A man and his son wander in the post-apocalyptic world.  Don't expect Mad Max adventure here.

Guest Lecture for History 12 at Sutherland, January 16, 2017

These images were taken at the Count Ferdinand von Galen Titan Missile Museum Education and Research Center, near Tucson, Arizona, last Spring (when operational, this silo was known as complex 571-7, one of 54 Titan II silos in the US).  The image above is of a Titan II missile, in its silo.  It held a 9 megaton warhead.  The effective range was 10,000 km and the time from launch to blast was approximately 30 minutes.  The image below is a code book in the underground command center.

Thank you Mrs. Panton for inviting me back to Sutherland for this talk on the history of the Cold War Nuclear Conflict and our so-far successful attempts to prevent thermonuclear war.  Other world problems have been given much more prominence since the end of the Cold War, but the election of a new American President may change all that.  These weapons still exist in the thousands and, as they say, accidents do happen.

The lecture material can be found in my PowerPoint here.

If you are interested in learning more about the topic, I highly recommend that you see as many of the following videos as possible:

• Cold War Cuba 1959-1962
• The Cold War: MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction (1960-1972)
• The Cold War - Star Wars (1980-1988)
• Q.E.E. - A guide to Armageddon (1982 Documentary)
• On the 8th Day (1984 Nuclear Winter Documentary)
• War - With Gwynne Dyer, Part 6 Notes on Nuclear War (1983)
• If You Love This Planet (1982) 

You might have a chuckle at the following Civil Defense videos.  In fact, policy makers never actually believed that populations could be protected against an all-out nuclear attack -- but they did want people to remain calm despite the possibility and certainly if a crisis took place.

• Atomic Alert (1951) Elementary Version
• Fallout: When And How To Protect Yourself 1959 U S Office Of Civil Defense
• FAMILY FALLOUT SHELTERS: Nuclear War for Housewives Vintage Film - 1960s American Civil Defense
• Duck And Cover (1951) Bert The Turtle - this is a must-see classic.
• Protect & Survive - 1970's UK Public infommercials On Nuclear War Preparation  

Although many films are not available directly online without being part of a subscription service, movie fans might like to watch the following films that are currently available to all:

• On the Beach (1959) Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Gregory Peck
• Fail Safe (1964) Henry Fonda, Walter Mathau
• The Day After (1983) Jason Robarts
• Threads (1984) - British docudrama from the mid-1980's deemed too frightening for the British television public. 
• By Dawn's Early Light (1990) James Earl Jones

Movies not listed above, but worth watching, include:

• Wargames (1983) - It may look hokey, but the storyline is fiction based on a real nuclear accident that took place when a training tape was mistakenly put into NORAD's mainframe computer.
• Testament (1983) - The experience of a small-town family that "survives" a nuclear exchange.
• Countdown to Looking Glass (1984) - Docudrama about a crisis in the Middle East.
• The Sacrifice (1986) - A man bargains with God to try to stop the nuclear holocaust.
• When the Wind Blows (1986) - Animated story of a retiree couple who try to survive nuclear war by using government pamphlets on how to do so.
• The Road (2009) - A man and his son wander in the post-apocalyptic world.  Don't expect Mad Max adventure here.

Guest Lecture for History 12 at Sutherland, January 12, 2016

Thank you Mrs. Panton for inviting me back to Sutherland for this talk on the history of the Cold War Nuclear Conflict and our so-far successful attempts to prevent thermonuclear war.

The lecture material can be found in my PowerPoint here.

If you are interested in learning more about the topic, I highly recommend that you see as many of the following videos as possible:

–Cold War Cuba 1959 - 1962 –The Cold War: MAD-Mutually Assured Destruction (1960-72) –Cold War Episode Star Wars 1980 1988 –Q.E.D. - A Guide To Armageddon - Nuclear War Documentary (1982) –On the 8th Day - Nuclear Winter Documentary (1984) –War with Gwynne Dyer, Part 6: Notes on Nuclear War (1983)

Have a chuckle while watching the following civil defense videos.  PoSlicy makers never really believed that populations could be protected against an all-out nuclear assault.

You might also look out for the following films on the topic.  Some have been available on Youtube, though studios bring them down fairly quickly.  Hopefully you can access some of them.

Threads
The Day After
Doctor Strangelove
War Games
The War Game
Testament
Countdown to Looking Glass
On the Beach
By Dawn's Early Light
The Sum of All Fears
The Atomic Cafe
Day the World Ended
K-19; The Widowmaker
Failsafe
Miracle Mile
The Sacrifice