EDIT: Just as I finished the below post about my business trips at around 2245 local, Mt Redoubt erupted in what they are calling a major eruption, shooting ash to 50,000 ft high. If their predictions are correct, the winds will bring the ash our way and will start falling in a couple of hours. So we'll hunker down and see if they are correct....................................................................
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Two weeks of business trips has kept me on the road. The first was to the Naval Amphibous Base in San Diego and the second to PACOM Headquarters in Hawaii. The pictures above show the trips: Seattle's Space Needle while flying to San Diego, aerial view of Mt St Helen's collapsed mountainside, and sights in San Diego including the beach and the bay; next aerial views are of flying back out of Alaska again enroute to Hawaii - big contrast from beginning to end of flight, Waikiki Beach and pics of the grounds around the Hale Koa, Pearl Harbor pics including one of the battleship Missouri and Arizona Memorial from dockside on Pearl, Wyland painting of sea life in the commissary, and pics of Seattle on the way home again - fog bank rolled in and made us hold overhead the city waiting for better weather. Altogether worthwhile trips, but I'm glad to be home. The boys were happy to see me.
Our volcano is starting to act up again. Will be interesting to see if this next eruption is as mild as last week's - that one only shot a small amount of ash up to about 15,000 ft, and the wind took the ash out to sea. This week, the winds are more dangerous for Anchorage, so we'll be watching to see if it erupts.
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