Jimbo Red
Retired on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada after spending 30 years overseas in Engineering, Procurement and Construction. involved in Oil and Gas, Pulp and Paper, Civil, Pipeline, Protective Coatings, Refinery and Chemical as well as participation "onsite" during the firefighting efforts in Kuwait after the war with Iraq. Married 5 children, 4 grandchildren and a boat.
OFF TO AUSTRALIA WITH AN ANGEL
We have left New Zealand, without work, in no hurry to get home. It was decided that Australia would be our first stop, in what we planned as an extended vacation. I will make a couple of posts about Australia,…
TIME TO SAY “ADIOS” NEW ZEALAND AND WE ARE OFF – 1991
Well our time has come and we are off to another adventure. The second phase of our project had not materialized, so after 8 months we were again heading into the unknown (Deysi and the girls about 6 months) .…
DAY TRIPS AROUND NEW ZEALAND – OR CAPTIVE OF OUR DAD IN HIS CAR.
As we had done, on all of our previous travels, we spent almost all of our free time snooping around the places we lived in. Deysi was a keen explorer and the girls were resigned to the fact that each…
AREQUIPA, PERU, 1920
This maneuver was carried again by out by Francisco Pérez Chávez (photo not included)A highly experienced pilot with more than 22,000 flight hours who was a Pilot Officer in the Canadian Air Force during the Second World War and later…
CANADIANS? WHY WERE WE AND HOW DID WE ARRIVE?
I am going to step away from New Zealand for a moment and Post an article about our family history. It has been a long time since I had an opinion piece, and I have now, decided on this one.…
ROUGHING IT ON THE COROMANDEL PENINSULA – 1991
Our next adventure starts on a long weekend near the time of Easter 1991. Deysi had decided that we would tour the Coromandel Peninsula and see all the sights we had heard so much about. This peninsula is on the…
RAMBLING AROUND NEW ZEALAND – SNAPSHOTS OF MY MIND
During our travels around New Zealand we had many great experiences and wonderful times. Some of these I am going to try and describe in this Post. None of them warrant a full Post, on their own, but they have…
CAVING IN NEW ZEALAND, UNIMAGINABLE SIGHTS
One of my earliest memories of New Zealand is of a weekend adventure we had not far from home. As I guess you all are aware, from my previous attempts, at describing some of the times we had, while travelling…
FINALLY WE MOVED INTO NEW ZEALAND FALL1990
We arrived! Finally we are going to see what the hype is all about. Geezus 4 million kiwis and 16 million sheep can’t be all that much fun, can it? We were assigned to the revamp of a pulp and…
VIDEO – SWAZILAND VACATION AND ANOTHER SUN HOTEL
I promise that this is the second last one from Africa. I am even getting on my own nerve. However, if I do not publish these videos someplace they will be lost forever. Even though the quality is poor, I…
