P-MAN XII Progress Report #18F - Flip's home; he shares some other people's photos
08 March 2010

We’ve been airborne about six hours. I fell asleep before the airplane left the gate. And promptly woke up 45 minutes into the flight and I can’t sleep. Two movies, one meal and a lot of water and I still can’t get sleepy enough. Well, sleepy enough to spill wine on the guy next to me. And a lot of it. Now that’s alcohol abuse.

So for the next day or so, I will try to get back onto east coast time. And I better as I have a trip scheduled on the 12th for my employer. Bad form to miss most of deicing season, and then claim you can’t fly.

Here are some photos from other folks’ folders, for your viewing pleasure.

From Derek Abbey’s viewpoint.

Self portrait of Derek.

Flip.

Beautiful islands.

Ancient Palauan Crown.

Steve (EOD specialist) showing the President
why you should watch where you step in the jungle.

Photos from Jack Herbert’s collection

Pulling out from Neco Marine.

A Rock Island cave.

Jack and Flip hard at work.

Hard at work taking pictures with Joe sleeping.

This is why people go to sea.

Photos from Pat Scannon's collection:

Jack and Warren on tsunami day.

Hard at work at The Drop Off.

Warren and Joe about to enter the Thousand-Man Cave on Peleliu.

Photos from Paul Schwimmer's collection:

Mike about to enter jungle.

El Jefe documenting a binjo.

Paul’s hat.

Cruising somewhere.

Photos from Warren's collection:

En route to Palau.

Our notification at the hotel.

Japanese shrine in the Thousand-Man Cave on Peleliu.

Does this really need explaining?

Mike and Paul jumping up and down, telling us they found an airplane part.
Or was it that someone was injured?
Or maybe they were hungry.
We really couldn’t tell.

Okay, those are the highlights. I don’t want to steal everyone’s thunder so I’m only choosing a few. And if Reid's posted them, I must be home. I don’t seem to have a photo file from Mike so if that surfaces, I’ll send some Mikey photos.

- Flip

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