What were you doing when Armstrong walked on the moon?

At 10:56 pm EDT July 20, 1969 Astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. He spoke from 240,000 miles away to more than a billion people listening on earth. “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Stepping off the lunar landing module Eagle, Armstrong became the first human to walk on [...]

Alarms and Landings in NYC

I was reading one of the blogs I like today, Travel Tales and Pictures, and there was some very nice shots of New York City that made me remember this episode.
In July of 1969, we left Toronto driving down to the United States via Niagara Falls and into Buffalo, through the beautiful countryside of New [...]