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Bruce A. Smith:
Yup, $116 to re-fuel Flight 305. Av gas was $0.16/gal. That's what the WSHM reported.
In 1971, I remember working for two bucks an hour and thought it was a decent wage. If I remember correctly, gas for one's car was $0.19/gal. A brand-new VW bug was 2K.
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Good for the Yanks! :bravo: Guess it will be Cincinnati and the SOX next year at the Field of Dreams.
Add this to your collection: fuel ticket for 305 the night of the hijacking. 3874 gal total: $116.22 ! Can that be right? :-\
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Nope, official word came down a few days ago that it will be the Reds and Cubs. I think the Reds and White Sox makes more sense though as those were the two teams involved in the infamous black sox scandal. It's hard to look at Shoeless Joe's stats through that series and believe he had a part in throwing it. As a lifelong Reds fan (BOO Yankees!), I would love to go to this. My son is a freshman on his high school baseball team and I would love to take him to it. Unfortunately, the price and the scarcity of the tickets will make that virtually impossible. I am traveling back to Iowa next week though, and may leave a day early and catch the Reds and Cards on Monday night. It's been a couple of years since I've been to a game. And even then, I got there in the 7th inning. I was traveling back from Michigan and was determined that I was going to stop and watch baseball and enjoy a hot dog and a few beers. That's exactly what I did.
Stay safe up in Cooper / Covid country Bruce, it looks like things are getting crazy again.
Robert99:
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My county, Pierce County, which includes Tacoma - but not Sea-Tac airport - is reporting the worst numbers of Covid infections this week - greater than at any time in the pandemic. 40 or so new cases per day, with 3-4 deaths per day. The Gov has issued a mask mandate for everyone to wear one indoors, regardless of vax status. Maybe 40% of the population are wearing theirs. I'm selective - I'm wearing mine in the grocery store, but not in a diner. I usually sit way off by myself when I eat out, or out on the patio. But the world seems indifferent about it all.
More troubling, the tensions between the vax and unvaxed is escalating. The anger is mounting on both sides to the point where I have become fearful of violence. Friendships and long-standing relationships are fracturing all around me.
The realization that the vaccines are not making people bullet-proof - giving them the customary 100% immunity - is also sobering, adding to the tensions.
Add it all up, and people are beginning to hunker-down voluntarily. Restaurants are again half-empty or less. I walked into a Denny's yesterday for din-din and the waitresses out-numbered the guests 4-2. I haven't talked to Eric recently, but the chances that CC21 will be held are fading. Currently, I rate it 60-40, as Covid is worse in the very rural and conservative SW Washington. Clark County is a veritable hot spot.
On the good news front, the Yankees just won their 11th straight. Go Yankees. The Mariners are playing well, too. Go figure.
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Good for the Yanks! :bravo: Guess it will be Cincinnati and the SOX next year at the Field of Dreams.
Add this to your collection: fuel ticket for 305 the night of the hijacking. 3874 gal total: $116.22 ! Can that be right? :-\
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I don't believe this is for the cost of the fuel itself. Rather, it is probably a charge for the refueling services out on a remote ramp and some distance from the usual refueling point which would be the ramp at the passenger terminal. The cost of Jet-A fuel was probably somewhere near 20 cents per gallon in 1971.
Bruce A. Smith:
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Good for the Yanks! :bravo: Guess it will be Cincinnati and the SOX next year at the Field of Dreams.
Add this to your collection: fuel ticket for 305 the night of the hijacking. 3874 gal total: $116.22 ! Can that be right? :-\
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Nope, official word came down a few days ago that it will be the Reds and Cubs. I think the Reds and White Sox makes more sense though as those were the two teams involved in the infamous black sox scandal. It's hard to look at Shoeless Joe's stats through that series and believe he had a part in throwing it. As a lifelong Reds fan (BOO Yankees!), I would love to go to this. My son is a freshman on his high school baseball team and I would love to take him to it. Unfortunately, the price and the scarcity of the tickets will make that virtually impossible. I am traveling back to Iowa next week though, and may leave a day early and catch the Reds and Cards on Monday night. It's been a couple of years since I've been to a game. And even then, I got there in the 7th inning. I was traveling back from Michigan and was determined that I was going to stop and watch baseball and enjoy a hot dog and a few beers. That's exactly what I did.
Stay safe up in Cooper / Covid country Bruce, it looks like things are getting crazy again.
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Even if you don't see the MLB game at Dyersville, Parrot, I highly recommend a trip there at any time. The original ballfield used in the movie is still there, along with the house that Kevin Costner's character lived in. I was there in 2000-ish, and I loved it. Still have my souvenir baseball from there.
snowmman:
I never asked him, but it always bothered me how Sheridan managed to have a visa for the amount of time he was in Nepal
Visas has recently been relaxed for Nepal. But back in 70s it was still pretty constrained?
He wasn't working, so I would think he had a tourist visa
They were doing a bunch of stuff to encourage tourism starting in the late 60s and tourism started to increase (it was really small in the 60s)
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that url has this paragraph (the report is from 1974, so this is pre-1974 info)
In no case does the Royal Nepalese Embassy (U.S., India, or other
countries) issue more than two-week visas for entering Nepal. All extensions must be obtained after arrival. However, prior clearance from the Institute (a procedure which may soon be required) us a strong guarantee of a visa extension.
I had a very quick look at Sheridan's passport from that era, and I believe I saw just one Nepal entry and one Nepal exit stamp at the expected times.
But they were years apart if I remember right. My understanding is that back then passports got stamped on all entry/exit between countries? Not sure.
So it's odd that he never got nailed for staying past his visa. Or what he did. Maybe things were looser then.
If he was working, I could see getting some kind of work visa.
But I would think all he would have been able to get was a tourist visa? which back then would have been much shorter than the length of time he spent there.
I was musing about whether he could have had multiple passports. I think not..
Just another random confusing thing.
In his book he talks about one of his characters have $20k in saigon in savings, and using that to fund the time writing the documentary in Nepal. Maybe he showed that he had money, and they let him live there. Maybe saying he was a writer?
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