Gander is great, Twilled to see Twillingate

SNM Tour Day #74

Day off roadwork, so blog will be short.  Today was a day for a rest, a presentation (to a small but very mighty group in Gander) and a time to play tourist with Marc and Colette. 

It is fascinating to learn about an area by asking the locals what the "sights to see" are.  The people of Gander are exceedingly humble and recommendations were understated and almost apologetic.  We drove around and saw the "Silent Witness Memorial" to the Arrow Airplane Crash of 1985 - the largest airplane crash on Canadian soil.

Thereafter we went to check out the famous Gander airport, which almost all the locals said "why? it's only a big old airport...." Gander airport has runways that are large enough and long enough to land any plane that exists on this planet, including the space shuttle.  This was the destination of many of the landmark Trans Atlantic flights and used to be a re-fueling destination for commercial trans Atlantic flights, many of which had movie stars, celebrities and famous and infamous politicians and heads of states.   We looked at all the interesting displays and were ready to leave when Monique went to talk to Wendy at the information counter and we were given a private tour of the "International section" of the original airport which still houses the original furnishings from the 50's. This part is not normally seen or open to "the public" so this was a great treat and Wendy had many a story to tell!!

Not that anyone is playing along and doing the quizzes that I painstakingly research and devise - but the person who identifies the most people on this poster which shows a few of the celebrities that have been in the GANDER airport will WINWINWIN a Gander airport pin personally given to me by our tour guide Wendy (ie I will forgo this immensely special and invaluable gift to use as a prize)

Thereafter we drove up North and through a number of smaller communities along the Ocean and unfortunately eventually ran out of time and daylight and drove back in the dark (hoping that we wouldn't come across any errant moose)

Tour Day Sponsor is Robert Hobbs - thanks so very much for all the support once again

Random Celebrity Quotes of the Day

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion

Madonna 

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized

Fred Allen

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault

Henry Kissinger