A couple things have heightened our interest recently in the 1936 Olympic Gold Medalist Jesse Owens. His 2011 statute at the track stadium named for him is featured in a couple episodes of Aerial Americaand his role in the 1936 Olympics is mentioned in The Boys in the Boatand in Unbroken. We found a geocache at his 1986 Memorial near the entrance to Ohio Stadium on The Ohio State University Campus in Columbus, Ohio then wended our way to the track stadium across the river. We’ve got the movie Race in our iTunes wish list. When we have a good wifi connection we can download and watch the movie.
We learned last night that Karen’s parents had season tickets for the 1949 OSU football season when the Buckeyes won the conference championship and went on to beat the California Golden Bears 17-14 in the Rose Bowl. Their photo album from that year includes several black and white photos of the field taken from inside Ohio Stadium.
It was an incredible experience to actually walk the streets of Pompeii, once a bustling resort town in the Roman Empire until 79 AD when an apocalyptic explosion buried it under 20 feet of volcanic ash. Archeological excavations since the 19th Century continue to reveal evidence of a thriving community.
Once the largest cruise ship in the world, Allure of the Seas will be our home for the next seven nights as we cruise the Western Mediterranean and explore the eighteen decks of this behemoth.
Our recent travel misadventures seriously curtailed our time in Rome pre-cruise but we did get to visit the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel before making the trip to Civitavecchi for an overnight in the port city of Rome preparatory to departing on Allure of the Seas tomorrow.
We learned last night that Karen’s parents had season tickets for the 1949 OSU football season when the Buckeyes won the conference championship and went on to beat the California Golden Bears 17-14 in the Rose Bowl. Their photo album from that year includes several black and white photos of the field taken from inside Ohio Stadium.