Anchorage

Day 3 in Anchorage.

Scheduling has taken me off my line. I leave tomorrow am for ORD (Chicago-O'Hare) and then to JFK.

Finish up my line on Wednesday and go home.

Not much happening other wise.

No picture for today.

Anchorage

Getting back to normal sleeping patterns. Spent much of yesterday trying to get reaclimated to Western Hemisphere time zones.

Had to go to Wal Mart yesterday to get some new underwear. Seems that the laundry I took my clothes to get washed lost 3 or 4 pair of my underwear, and gave me someone else's underwear. Plus I got an extra black sock. Oh well......

PS: Not going to wear the underwear that belongs to someone else. Not that hard up for clothes. LOL.....

North to Alaska

We got into Anchorage. But it took a while.

When we got to Khabarovsk, Russia (to refuel) the #4 engine wouldn't start. Our mechanic (Norbert) (yes that's his name) got the engine to start. We started the takeoff run and noticed the #4 engine wasn't producing takeoff thrust. So the Captain rejected the takeoff and we went back to the ramp for more repairs.

One hour later, Norbert got us going again. This time we made an uneventful takeoff for Anchorage. So we thought....

Once we landed in Anchorage, I was doing the post flight walk-a-round inspection of the aircraft, I found evidence (guts and blood) of a bird ingestion into the #3 engine.

Don't know if it happened on takeoff or landing. I could see the spot where the bird went in and out.

Oh well... another day in the life of an international freight dog.....

3 years old today.......

Happy Birthday Natalie !!!!!!!

We are in Hong Kong. Actually Kowloon. This is a picture of Hong Kong harbour from my hotel room.

We went shopping today at the Ladies market, Golden Computer Center, and the electronics market. Walked, and walked, and walked.

Almost didn't leave Liege, Belgium.

We were about ready to go when we discovered that the lav valve that empties the toilet contents, would not close. This is a NO GO item (ya think?)....

The mechanics were estimating that it would take at least 5 hours to fix, IF they had the part they thought they might need.

Once they started to take apart the cover over the toilet, and looked (yes I said looked) inside the tank portion of the toilet with a flashlight. They saw a 12 ounce plastic water bottle had gotten stuck in the valve that allows the pretty blue water out of the holding tank into a special truck. One of the mechanics then stuck his hand (yes, I said, STUCK his HAND) inside the holding tank and removed above stated water bottle! Then off we go to Bahrain and then on to Hong Kong.

There you go....

Life flying the line as a freight dog... LOL........

Bahrain

This is a picture of a new building that is being erected a block away from the Sheraton that we stay at in Bahrain. the other is a picture of one of the many structures around this desert city. The money here is a "dinar". 1 dinar is worth about $3.85 USD. Internet service runs 9 dinars for 1 day of Internet service. I 'll let you do the math.

We leave here for Amsterdam tonight. We are 8 hours ahead of most of you in the midwest (CDT).

Started back to work...

We left last night from Newark, NJ and flew 7.5 hours to Liege, Belgium. We left an hour late waiting for 2 pallets of mail that never came. This is a contract we have with the USPS and the DOD (Depart of Defence) to take mail over to the troupes in the Middle East. Flying with a good crew this month. And that means the time will go by fast.

I will try and take some pictures today and post tomorrow of Liege.