Minnesota land of 10,000 lakes and a few a**holes

Delaware laboring in seas USS Delaware, was built at Newport News, Virginia. Commissioned in April 1910, she cruised to Europe late in that year and to South America during the first part of 1911.  Delaware participated in the Atlantic Fleet's exercises in the western Atlantic and Caribbean area.  When the United States entered World War I, she initially performed training and battle readiness missions along the U.S. east coast, then deployed to the North Sea late in 1917. She served with the British Grand Fleet in the U.S. Sixth Battle Squadron from then until late July 1918, when she left for home.   Troops aboard U.S.S. Mongolia   The SS Mongolia was a steamer, a merchant ship launched on July 25 th 1903 which formed part of the Atlantic Transport Co. fleet in October 1915.  On March 17 th 1917 she took on an armed guard of United States Sailors and was armed with three 6 inch guns. U.S.S. Mongolia When the Imperial German Government placed into e...

  Bar-le-Duc, the new hospital buildings   Reims Cathedral,a unique architectural masterpiece,  was destroyed by the Germans in 1914.  Sable sur Sarthe,Solesmes Benedictine Abbey MARSEILLE - Pont de la Fausse Monnaie (a small beach under the bridge) Le Mans - The Tunnel, Quayside area. Stairs with 143 steps.  Paris - The Chamber of Deputies and the Pont de la Concorde. The Concorde Bridge. Bourbonne les Bains, Grande Rue and Hotel du Commerce

  " The Great War: Mouilly (Meuse) ruins around the church ."   

 

 Here's a little blast from the past.  We took an airboat tour of a Louisiana bayou in March of 2019.  My wife said that if she could see alligator it was worth the trip.