A journey to the Moon - an overview, part 17.

Here is what I saw out of my aircraft window as I left Norwegian airspace. As I said earlier, this would not be a point where my journey finished, just another view on that journey, to the Moon, or with Moon. This journey is all about me, not about Moon. It's about my experiences, what I did, thought and wanted to share with you. It's not over yet, not whilst Moon is still there somewhere in my journey.

I still have a part bottle of Baileys that I bought in the duty free shop in Amsterdam, where I caught a connecting flight to Heathrow. It reminds me of those Baileys Moon and I shared on the lazy evenings sitting in her Moon Room in her house. I had brought 3 such bottles out with me, and had incredulous looks from the security/customs at Amsterdam as the put them through the X ray machine on my way out.

I had checked the rules in a book the lady had by her counter on the allowances from the UK to Norway. They had told me 2 liters, the rule book said 3, so I took 3. A security man engaged me in a conversation about a scratch card "someone had given him from England". Was it OK? Where in England could these be bought? I knew he was looking for my reaction, my body language as a single male traveler to get indication as to whether I was carrying illegal substances or whatever. I patiently answered his questions with a smile, and left him with a "don't waste you money buying those, the chances of winning are pretty slim", as I dashed off to catch my connecting flight which was due to leave in just 10 minutes.

I know that within the last 10 minutes of boarding time, you just can't if you turn up so late. Only standby passengers who have been waiting can usually get on within those last 10 minutes, as they forfeit the seats of anyone who has not turned up by then.

The KLM chap looked at me panting from my run, took my ticket and hurried down to the cockpit for permission to allow this late arrival. The captain of an aircraft is the only one able to supersede the 'rules', the only one who can override them. It was my lucky day, they let me on, even if my bag was still in the hold of the aircraft I had just left.

My journey then was not broken, and neither is it now ;)

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What a wonderous adventure. As great as the pictures were I can't help but wonder what they look like to the naked eye. ( A slice of heaven maybe)

Thank you both Ice and Moom for sharing this wonderous adventure with us.

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What a wonderous adventure. As great as the pictures were I can't help but wonder what they look like to the naked eye. ( A slice of heaven maybe)

Thank you both Ice and Moom for sharing this wonderous adventure with us.

;-) ..aye.. also I think its very interesting to read..lol ..and since its Ice's adventure, i keep to posting photos.. I'll better not interfere in
the story.. ;-)) ..if i did, he might stop..and we dont want that, aye? ;-D
btw..to find out how it really looks like here..its only one way to find out i guess.. Ask Ice if he has room for you in his space-ship when he deside to
return.. ;p

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. . . To the Moon & iX



> maybe this is the Cover to the Journal: 'To the Moon & iX'

What about this one:
;)

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Ask Ice if he has room for you in his space-ship when he deside to
return.. ;p

LOL.
Just spent the last half hour catching up on the story. Thanks both :)

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What a wonderous adventure. As great as the pictures were I can't help but wonder what they look like to the naked eye. ( A slice of heaven maybe)

Thank you both Ice and Moom for sharing this wonderous adventure with us.

;-) ..aye.. also I think its very interesting to read..lol ..and since its Ice's adventure, i keep to posting photos.. I'll better not interfere in
the story.. ;-)) ..if i did, he might stop..and we dont want that, aye? ;-D
btw..to find out how it really looks like here..its only one way to find out i guess.. Ask Ice if he has room for you in his space-ship when he deside to
return.. ;p

Thank you Arion. As much as the photos have done well in capturing the beauty of the islands, I think it's only what is in my memory and the reality of the scenes that would make anyone really appreciate it as it should be ;)

Moon, please keep posting your photos. I always believed you would make a good photographer, and I don't mind saying that your photos often excel over mine :)

As for my journey, a trip in the future is something I can't offer, but the realization of a dream about the past can always be made, as it will be, with the help of Thorin (thanks Thorin), as you will see in my next post ;)

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What a wonderous adventure. As great as the pictures were I can't help but wonder what they look like to the naked eye. ( A slice of heaven maybe)

Thank you both Ice and Moom for sharing this wonderous adventure with us.

;-) ..aye.. also I think its very interesting to read..lol ..and since its Ice's adventure, i keep to posting photos.. I'll better not interfere in
the story.. ;-)) ..if i did, he might stop..and we dont want that, aye? ;-D
btw..to find out how it really looks like here..its only one way to find out i guess.. Ask Ice if he has room for you in his space-ship when he deside to
return.. ;p

Thank you Arion. As much as the photos have done well in capturing the beauty of the islands, I think it's only what is in my memory and the reality of the scenes that would make anyone really appreciate it as it should be ;)

Moon, please keep posting your photos. I always believed you would make a good photographer, and I don't mind saying that your photos often excel over mine :)

As for my journey, a trip in the future is something I can't offer, but the realization of a dream about the past can always be made, as it will be, with the help of Thorin (thanks Thorin), as you will see in my next post ;)

With MY help? :O I'm getting curious...

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What a wonderous adventure. As great as the pictures were I can't help but wonder what they look like to the naked eye. ( A slice of heaven maybe)

Thank you both Ice and Moom for sharing this wonderous adventure with us.

;-) ..aye.. also I think its very interesting to read..lol ..and since its Ice's adventure, i keep to posting photos.. I'll better not interfere in
the story.. ;-)) ..if i did, he might stop..and we dont want that, aye? ;-D
btw..to find out how it really looks like here..its only one way to find out i guess.. Ask Ice if he has room for you in his space-ship when he deside to
return.. ;p

Thank you Arion. As much as the photos have done well in capturing the beauty of the islands, I think it's only what is in my memory and the reality of the scenes that would make anyone really appreciate it as it should be ;)

Moon, please keep posting your photos. I always believed you would make a good photographer, and I don't mind saying that your photos often excel over mine :)

As for my journey, a trip in the future is something I can't offer, but the realization of a dream about the past can always be made, as it will be, with the help of Thorin (thanks Thorin), as you will see in my next post ;)

With MY help? :O I'm getting curious...

Yep ;)

"Thorin" wrote:

What about this one:
;)

With Thorins help I now I have the basis for my shield should I ever be knighted, as I wondered about it, in a dream I had during my journey to the Moon.

Thanks Thorin :)

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Awww. I feel honored ^_^

I only used Richard's idea of the Tarot cards, and knowing that there is a card named "The Moon" in the Major Arcana, I searched the same site he used to find the fitting card - and so I have to forward the honor to Richard as well :)

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Awww. I feel honored ^_^

I only used Richard's idea of the Tarot cards, and knowing that there is a card named "The Moon" in the Major Arcana, I searched the same site he used to find the fitting card - and so I have to forward the honor to Richard as well :)

Thanks to Thorin and Richard both. Now I also have my own Tarot card ;)

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Awww. I feel honored ^_^

I only used Richard's idea of the Tarot cards, and knowing that there is a card named "The Moon" in the Major Arcana, I searched the same site he used to find the fitting card - and so I have to forward the honor to Richard as well :)

Thanks to Thorin and Richard both. Now I also have my own Tarot card ;)

This (and your story) reminds me to the "Two of Swords" in the Minor Arcana.

Divinatory meaning
Upright - Courage, delicate and precarious balance in adversity. Differences resolved, relief, restoration of peace, truce, a weight off the mind.

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Awww. I feel honored ^_^

I only used Richard's idea of the Tarot cards, and knowing that there is a card named "The Moon" in the Major Arcana, I searched the same site he used to find the fitting card - and so I have to forward the honor to Richard as well :)

Thanks to Thorin and Richard both. Now I also have my own Tarot card ;)

This (and your story) reminds me to the "Two of Swords" in the Minor Arcana.

Divinatory meaning
Upright - Courage, delicate and precarious balance in adversity. Differences resolved, relief, restoration of peace, truce, a weight off the mind.

Thanks for that Thorin. This is much closer to the image that I had in mind, when I had the dream; a woman in white robe, hooded (but in this case blindfolded), between two swords and the Moon above her. With the water and islands behind her I have a feeling that Moon will find this interesting ;)

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This (and your story) reminds me to the "Two of Swords" in the Minor Arcana.

Divinatory meaning
Upright - Courage, delicate and precarious balance in adversity. Differences resolved, relief, restoration of peace, truce, a weight off the mind.

Thanks again for this Thorin. It caused much interest and interesting googling ;)

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A journey to the Moon - an overview, part 18.

I am going to repeat the image that I displayed in part 17, because I discovered something about it. This photo was the last I took before returning to the UK. When I downloaded all the images from my camera to my PC I discovered that this was the 9,999th photo I had taken with my camera. It seemed a strange coincidence, but then numbers have always fascinated me. It may well be superstition, but when I end a sentence with dots, to signify a never ending pause, I always tend to use 3 dots. Moon always tends to use 2. I don't know if any of this matters, but I was once told a saying, "if something matters, then everything matters".

I arrived at Heathrow to a world so very different to that of Moon's islands. It seemed a million miles away now. I called her to let her know I had arrived safely, and let her know I would be back in computer contact before very long. I drove along the three lane lit up motorway at night and contrasted it with that single lane road in Moon's island, unlit and dark with just car or bus lights to show the way. Despite this I wasn't missing moon's islands yet, just eager to get home and unpack the images of those islands into my computer.

It's always nice to collect photos together put them in an album or a computer folder, but then they get quietly stored away. I'm glad for this opportunity to share them of course. Which is one of the of the wonderful things that a forum like SETI@Home can offer, to share words and images.

Telling this story is also part of my journey, and I already have another image ready to share, and my thoughts about it. My journey, this part of my journey with Moon, is not quite over yet ;)

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Awww. I feel honored ^_^

I only used Richard's idea of the Tarot cards, and knowing that there is a card named "The Moon" in the Major Arcana, I searched the same site he used to find the fitting card - and so I have to forward the honor to Richard as well :)

Thanks to Thorin and Richard both. Now I also have my own Tarot card ;)

This (and your story) reminds me to the "Two of Swords" in the Minor Arcana.

Divinatory meaning
Upright - Courage, delicate and precarious balance in adversity. Differences resolved, relief, restoration of peace, truce, a weight off the mind.

Thanks for that Thorin. This is much closer to the image that I had in mind, when I had the dream; a woman in white robe, hooded (but in this case blindfolded), between two swords and the Moon above her. With the water and islands behind her I have a feeling that Moon will find this interesting ;)

Mmmmhh.. i sure do ;-) i can also tell you that this card, 2 swords, correspond with the starsign Libra, wich is mine, of course. It also correspond with the card II the High Priestess in the Major Arkana, that in itself has the direct correspondence to The Moon, and element Water.

"..and you who think about searching for me, know that your seeking and longings dont come to your resque if you dont know the mystery; Know that if you dont find what you search within yourself, you will never find it outside yourself. See; I have been with you from the beginning, and I am what is reached in the end of the desire.. "



aye.. I do have tarot cards myself.. ;-)

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I think we need to see these 3 together. An interesting pause in my journey to the Moon - I see 3 moons here ;)

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I am posting this photo taken to the west of Moon's house at the very western edge of the known world, as a goodnight to you all and a goodnight to Moon. Sleep well ;)

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A journey to the Moon - an overview, part 19.

I got home and left my bag and coat in the hall. Unpacking could wait until tomorrow. It was late and I wanted to power up my computers, get them crunching again, and see if the wire attached to my computer was still attached to a certain computer in Moon’s islands.

Indeed it was, and Moon and I chatted for a while, and eventually we said our “See you”s. I decided to open the patio door in my office and stepped outside into my garden. There was a little noise from distant traffic, but in my garden, surrounded by trees, it can be quite dark at times, almost pitch black, and can be quite still and remote.

But tonight it was quite bright, above me a bright full moon shone, as if welcoming me home. “Welcoming me home?” I wondered about this and how at home I felt in Moon’s house, which I did. They say that home is where the heart is. And I sure knew where my heart was just then as I stood under the moon. But this was my house behind me, and I thanked the moon for its welcome.

If my journey to the Moon was now complete, then I had come a full circle, for this is where I started it, if it was about this particular visit. But that’s all it was, a visit to Moon. My journey continues, the moon shines above me, and Moon is somewhere out there, and still in my journey.

I went back into my office and brought my camera out into the garden. I took just one photo, which I later discovered was the 10,000th photo I had taken with this camera since I bought it last August. I was in Moon’s island’s earlier that morning, and now I was standing under the moon in my own garden, thinking about how very much I loved her...

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. . . That is Quite Beautiful iX

. . . To the Moon & iX

< here's something for both of You - George Harrison's - 'MY SWEET LORD' . . .

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. . . That is Quite Beautiful iX

. . . To the Moon & iX

< here's something for both of You - George Harrison's - 'MY SWEET LORD' . . .

Thank you Richard, another welcome comment from a friend ;)

Here is a song for my best friend, Moon :) Ticket to the Moon

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