After leaving the Sandy Lake

After leaving the Sandy Lake, I checked into the Singapore Hilton for a R&R period. I spent the next three days touring this fascinating city/country. I remember visiting the Botanical Gardens, the Zoo and just relaxing. While I was there I visited a travel agency where I was initially booked on a Pan Am flight. They had told me that I had the choice between flying over the Pacific or across Asia and Europe. I chose the latter. Later due to some disturbing news about Arab terrorists blowing up American planes in the desert, I changed my flight to non-American airlines or at least not Pan Am.

So I booked the following trip of a lifetime. When it was over I had visited the following places:

Via Lufthansa Airlines Boeing 707

	Singapore to
	Bangkok, Thailand (intermediate fuel stop)
	New Delhi, India

I stayed in the Ashoka Hotel in Delhi for 3 days and then hired a car and driver for the day trip to see the Taj Mahal in

Agra, India

Via Royal Nepal Airlines to Kathmandu.

After visiting Agra I decided to visit my ham friend the Rev. Fr. Mike Moran 9N1MM Who ran a Catholic School for boys near Katmandu. I had talked to Father Moran a few times on the Maritime Mobile net. I need to mention that one of my former captains Capt. Frank Maholland WB2WUQ who was Master of the ST Transhatteras was a very good friend of Father Moran's

Katmandu, Nepal

This is probably one of the most memorable trips in my life to the "top of the world" or close to it.

This was a major Buddhist Temple in downtown Katmandu. Kathmandu can be spelled two ways so it seems.

Via Air India Boeing 707

	Teheran, Iran (intermediate fuel stop)
	Zurich, Switzerland. (intermediate fuel stop)
	Frankfurt, Ger. (intermediate fuel stop)
	London, England

Via British European Airways to:

Belfast, N.I.

Via car rental.

	Antrim
	Donegal
	Dublin
	Belfast

Via British European Airways

Via TWA Boeing 707

Dulles International Airport Washington

01/24/2002