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1980 world tour slide show
1. 1980 World Tour
A Handstand, A Smile, and
A Trip Around the World
Michael Comberiate – aka NASAMIKE
2.
3. May 2 Friday
• Washington D.C. National Airport (DCA) 7am
• DCA – MIA (Miami) *
• Pan Am 109, Boeing 727
• MIA – ORL (New Orleans) *
• Pan AM 949, DC- 10
• ORL – SFO (San Francisco)
• Pan Am 841, Boeing 747
• SFO – HNL (Honolulu) *
• Arrived & rented Car at Midnight
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* Indicates Handstand(s)
5. May 2 Saturday
• Drove NW around North Tip
• Swam in Kahana Bay @ 2am; jogged a mile *
• Ate @ Jack-in-box 330am,drove 92 miles in the dark
• Watched Sunrise @ Hanauma Bay. Walked Around
Blow Holes & KoKo Volcano & Southeast Beaches *
• Surfed @ Waikiki
• Pearl harbor Tour
• Drove Thru Pineapple Fields *
• Flew in Glider for 2 hours *
• Germaine’s Luau with Native Dances and Food
• Returned Datsun 310 at Midnight (260miles @ 35mpg)
6. 24 hours on Kona, Hawaii -
Sunrise on Diamond
Head
8. Exotic Dances
for all the
Islands in a
Germaine Luau
Waikiki Surfing
& Pearl Harbor
USS Arizona Pearl Harbor
9. May 4, Sunday
• HNL – NADI (Fiji Island) (left ~ midnight)
• PA 811 Boeing 747
• Lost most of Sunday crossing Dateline *
• Slept 4.5 hours on this flight
• Fiji Fast Beach Walk 415am – 615am (Sunrise)
• Nadi – SYD no sleep
(Sydney, Australia)
• PA 811 (747) 10kmiles
• They sprayed the plane
before we could exit
10. May 5 Monday
• Met Faye, Carl and Penny in Sydney
• Carl drove to my Car Health Food & Sydney Harbor
• 2.5 hr Harbor Boat Tour *
• Walked thru King’s Cross and Parks
• Saw “Long Talks” with Faye @ Sydney Opera House
• Back to their flat at 2am
NOTE: I had met Fate and her mom in Germany 1976
So I planned this trip to see them & go around world
15. May 6 Tuesday (Double Day)
• Showered & Slept 3a – 630a @ these friend’s flat
• Washed Clothes. Drove 180km to beaches Jogged
• Carl & Penny Dropped me off @ Taronga Zoo *
• Redid my Itinerary w Faye (a flight Attendant)
• SYD – AKL (Auckland, New Zealand), PA 812 (747)
• 5p – 8p Met Barbi Fleming in AKL
• AKL – HNL, PA 812 ( 2 Movies, Crossed Dateline)
• Arrived 7am; Bus to China Town w Barbi (lunch)
• HNL – OSA (Osaka, Japan) PA 9 (747) Dep 1230p
19. May 7 Wednesday (Skipped Day)
• Crossed Dateline “AGAIN” (twice in one day)
• Dinner & Movie “10” 4375 miles
• Arr Osaka, Japan 4pm
(lost 200mm lens in HNL)
• Bus to Kyoto Grand Hotel
(only hotel on this trip)
• Walked miles thru streets & Visited food & Arcades
• Met South Africans
• Showered & Slept in Hotel
• Slept at 1230a
20. May 8 Thursday
• Kyoto Bus Tour 830a-noon (2800 yen@ 100y/$)
• Met Mr Kim who is coming to USA and will call me
• Bullet Train (1253p-315p) to Hiroshima (7100yen)
• Worked out train schedules in sign language
• Street Car to Bomb Site/Peace Park
• Walked park in rain (57F). Museum Closed
• Bus to RxR (someone paid 50yen for each bus trip)
• Met Submarine Cap’t from WW II on Bullet train #1
• Two Bullet trains (19100Yen) Ended in Fuji Station
• Hotels closed. Slept 3-4am in Train Station (Raining)
• Ate only 3 oranges, Nuts, Raisins, Candy, Juice today
24. May 9 Friday
• Slept 3hrs Until Dawn– Rained pretty hard all night
• Tried to get a bus tour with Sign Language (S/L)
• Hoshino appeared Speaking English. Helped buy
ticket to Tokyo & invited me to eat at his house
• Met his wife, Kyoco. Ate big breakfast there. Bath
in deep tub. Used traditional Japanese toilet.
• Uncle Nozawa & son, Terruaka drove me up Mt Fuji
• Toured temples . Ate lunch near top of Fuji
• Looked at photos from his trip to USA @ his house
Walked to RxR with Terruaka. Caught train @ 525p
• Met Mac (Darrell McKnight)
28. May 9 Friday (cont’d)
• Cruised through Gaku Gei Dai Gaku suburbs
• Mac really knows his way around here.
• He was a draft dodger who left Baltimore, USA and
lives here now wheeling & dealing.
• A real Free Spirit – Child of the Universe !
• We ate @ McDonald’s
and went back to his place
• Chatted most of the night
about Life, Karma, the Orient, …,
but slept eventually
30. May 10, Saturday
• Hot Tub Bath at Mac’s apartment
• Toured Tokyo with Mac. Mailed stuff home by ship
• Rode Subway & Train to Ueno & skyline to Nahrita
• Met Christian Meybohm (W. Germany) @airport
• PA 001 (747) Narita – Hong Kong (discussed politics)
• 2000 miles in 4.5 hours
• Arr 830p in Hong Kong. Met Filamina & Aussies
• All of us walked to YMCA & got beds for $5.50/night
• Met Jessica and had Ice cream & Coffee
• Shower and slept at 130am
33. May 11, Sunday
• Up @ 730a. Walked to Mass @ Holy Rosary Church
• Met Robin, HK Entrepreneur – sold me 3 T-shirts, Safari
jacket, film, set up 2 Hong Kong (HK) Tours
• China tour was “full” but he got me on it.
• Walked Kowloon 4 hrs w Robin. Unable to fit in a side
trip to Thailand and still get into China.
• 2p Bus tour of HK Island, Victoria Peak, Beach, Boat ride
on Aberdeen Bay. It’s a World Trade Center
• Met Jay Seymour (Alaska) @ MacDonald’s. Walked
streets, rode subway under water & ferry back
• Washed clothes. Met Bob McGinnes (Kodak)
• YMCA for the night
35. May 12 Monday
• Bus tour to China border thru Kowloon
• Rickshaw Ride. Picked up tailor-made Safari Jacket
• Ate at supermarket. Changed money @ a bank.
• Mailed souvenirs home at Post Office.
• Walked to Train Station. Reworked Pan Am itinerary.
• New Plan for Bahrain without having a Visa
• Walked more miles. Bus back to YMCA
36. May 13 Tuesday
• Bus to Train & Left
for China @
730am
• Arr Shenzhen
(Sham Chun City)
• Art Gallery
42. May 13 Tuesday (Continued)
• Spent 5.5 hrs in Red China. 90-min train to HK
• Walked to Airport Bus @6pm & got tickets for
• PA Flights to Delhi, Bahrain, Cairo, Tel Aviv, Istanbul
• Reserved Flights from JFK – RIO – JFK
• Left my money and ID on the seat in the terminal
• Found it all at Lost & Found 30-minutes later
• Cleaned up and met the Customs gal
• PA 001 Hong Kong – New Delhi (747) 3000 mi/5hrs
• Left 1110 pm and Arr @0040 Slept 2hrs on plane
43. May 14 Wednesday
• 92 F and 95% humidity in new Delhi at 1am
• 112F in daytime.
• Blitz thru Customs: Mailed post cards; Changed
money; Bought gifts; in Security but Photos had
to be blotted out; Back thru Customs
• PA 001 Left for Bahrain at 0230a; Arr @ Sunrise
• Have 22hrs in Bahrain
45. May 14 Wednesday
• Photographed Sunrise in Bahrain
• Bus to Manama: met driver, Narendran from India
• He dropped me off at each of 8 stops to walk
around, then picked me up on his next round.
• Spent evening & night with him after his work.
• Stayed w him in Indian Compound
• Dinner and Cinema with English subtitles
• Bath & washed clothes
• Hospital to examine my swollen lips (was a reaction
to Quinine Pills I took weekly). Got a shot there
• Dropped me at Airport at 01325am
49. May 15 Thursday (Cairo)
• MS 865 (707) 1800 miles Bahrain to Cairo, Egypt
• Got thru customs first and signed up w Green Valley
tours. Got Room & full tour Package for $200 (L280)
• Paid L125 for 5 tours & 2 Sleeper RxR to/from Luxor
• Left one bag in office and started touring @9am
• Tour 1= King Tut Exhibit@ Cairo Museum, Bazaar
Ripoffs & driving thru Cairo until 3pm
• Tour 2= Pyramids (Paid guard on camel to let me
climb to top of Cheops, alone) 13 using timer
Took 3 minutes up the corner opposite Sphinx.
• Climbed down. Camel Ride L5. RxR @ 7p slept in
seat. Dinner on route to Luxor
54. I set the 10-sec timer on
my Pentax SLR and ran
up to do handstands.
Did about 13 but only
caught four well enough
to post here. Couldn’t
know how they turned
out until I developed
the film 4 weeks later.
55. May 16 Friday (Luxor)
• Overnight Train (12hrs) Cairo to Luxor – Arr 830am
• No Green Valley tour guide, so tourist police
arranged a buggy to Nile for me. Called tour Co.
from a hotel & Guide, McHagagy met me there 10a.
• Tour 3=Ferry boat & Valley of Kings: Tut & Ramsey
VI, Hatshepsut Tombs. Ferry and lunch
• Tour 4= Karnak (Ramsey II) & Luxor Temples via
horse&buggy; Lunch/Dinner@ New Winter Hotel
• Back to RxR: Left for Cairo at 1030p on Sleeper.
58. Valley of the Kings
Hatshepsut’s Temple
Queen Hatshepsut’s Tomb
59.
60. May 17 Saturday (Luxor)
• Met Mostapha (570 miles each way)
• Breakfast on Train
• No Green Valley tour guide again, so tourist police
called Office and got me a cab to there. Got Refund
for missing Memphis & Saqqara
• Saw Pyramid Sound & Light show then Exotic Dance
@ Sahara City
• Slept @ Airport 2a to 5a & Ticket office opened@7a
62. May 18 Sunday (Tel Aviv)
• Watched Sunrise in Cairo
• Flight UZ 100 Nefertiti (707):
• Cairo – Tel Aviv @noon
• Met Sheila Simpson & rented car together
• Picked up 2 Israeli Soldiers – on way to Jerusalem
65. • Drove to Dead Sea in dark but stopped by 3 Patrols
• Showed US Passports to get thru.
• Drove back to Tel Aviv (TLV) but flight to Turkey was
canceled. My car was towed but we got it back
• Drove to Mediterranean Beach then back to TLV 3a
May 19 Monday TLV to Roma AZ 737 (707)
• Returned car (380km 21.5 liters)
• Unable to sail from Haifa to Istanbul so rescheduled
a flight on Al Italia to Roma in 1 hour. Made it @ 6p
• 1500 miles in 3 hrs. Arr Roma 6p
66. Met Ibrahim from Kuwait, getting
PhD in Roma. We walked Roma/he
bought Dinner. He called me in 1990.
67. • Bus back to Airport @midnight
• Met Blessings Atulobi & others
from Africa. Chatted most of Night;
• Slept 2hr on Chairs
May 20 Tuesday
• PA 110 (727) 1pm
• Arr Istanbul 4pm
• Rented a Renault Station Wagon
• Drove to Beach in Florya
68. Met Ali Merig from Turkey
at beach in Florya.
Paid 150 lira = $7 for some
local fishermen to give us
a boat ride in Sea of
Marmara, while Ali
narrated sights
81. May 23 – JFK – Dakar
Arr 0600 and Dep 0800
Had time to slip thru Customs in
Senegal; do Handstand; Gave a local
guy $6 to buy stamps and mail the 2
Post Cards I bought here. Back thru
Customs and onto same Plane. A huge
African Woman had my seat. Got her
to change seats and we took off again.
82. Liberia -
Met Cap’t Smithburn in
Cockpit of PanAm while
in Monrovia. Not allowed
to exit plane so he took
the handstand photo in
the First Class section.
84. Landed in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Only 45-minute layover:
Bought one Post Card
Asked a passerby to take a
photo of One Handstand
then back onto the plane
85. • Arrived in Lagos, Nigeria 320pm
• Passport Stamped
• Bought and mailed 3 Post Cards
• Handstand Photo
• Bought a Bracelet
86. Flew Across Africa to Nairobi, Kenya
• 12885 Miles in last 40 hours- May 24
• Rode with Mr Succhi, PanAm East
Africa Director, to City. Got me a
first class room at Heron Court $25
• Picked up by Nilestar Tours $225
• VW Bus w 7 Tourists
• Amboselli Game Preserve
101. May 27
• Paid Nilestar another $250. They let
me off in Malindi and will meet me
in Mombasa tomorrow evening.
• Walked off @2pm to find the San
Marco Site on my own in Evening.
• Gave guide, Joe, $100 to buy me a
Train Ticket to Nairobi from
Mombasa for tomorrow
• Malindi was closed at 5pm
102. • Found a phone in a travel agency but no one spoke
English. Called the San Marco Italians but could
barely understand them. They sent a car to pick me
up, but it was 2 hours late due to Flat Tire.
• Called NASA colleagues on SCAMA Phone
103. May 28 - Marco Scout Rocket Launch Site
Converted Texas Oil Rig
Located 2 degrees South
106. San Marco
Texas Site
After a morning tour of
the Launch Site some of
the guys drove me
50 miles to Mombasa
where they were to set
up a down range data
collection for NASA’s
upcoming NOAA-B
satellite launch
107. May 28 – After the tour on the Texas Site Launch Pad, the San
Marco guys got me to Mombasa on time to meet the tour
again and take that train back to Nairobi. I walked around
Mombasa a while and bought some souvenirs. Then I gave Joe
the tour guide money to return to that hotel he was in and
find my special shirt that he left there. It was a wash & wear
(big deal back in 1980). Sleeper Train back to Nairobi.
108. May 29 – Africa to USA
Flew PAN AM 191: Nairobi (NBO) Lagos – Abidjan,
Ivory Coast – Monrovia Liberia (my friend Nicolle got
off here) – Dakar, Senegal (Short Transits again)
May 30 Friday: Arrived in JFK at 6am
Called my Cousin, Mike Desimone and reconfirmed
my next flight to Buenas Aires this evening (PA Office
said no Visa required, so I canceled my flight at
10am to Caracus). Asked Mike to pick me up and he
did. Took me to have lunch with family
112. Did a bunch of Handstands
out on the roof of the South
Tower. Only captured a
couple photos
113.
114. May 30:
So, when I got to JFK they told me I did need a Visa even to
transit thru Argentina, and they would not let me on that
flight to Buenos Aires. With one day left on the Passport 30
the farthest I could go was to Los Angeles.
Caught the last flight of the day to LAX and planned a way to
get to South America on route. Had to use the reservation
schedule booklet onboard and make reservations in LAX.
One connection to Miami was a standby, but as I was exiting
the plane in Houston, they called up standbys and so, I made
it through New Orleans to Miami.
Met Diane and Harry Jones.
2hrs in MIA was enough time to catch PA445 to Caracus
(CCS), Venezuela.
115. May 31 : Venezuela
My Confirmed Return
ticket to MIA on PA 444
was “Lost in Computer”
when I arrived in Caracus
so they would not let me
return on this flight. Had
to wait a day due Airline
Strike. Went into town &
to Ocean with airport
maintenance guy, Al
Vargo. My Passport 30
expired tonight. Slept in
a/p then first in long line.
116. Sunday June 1, 1980
Spent most of the day working with
Pan Am reps in CCS to get on a flight
back to USA. Finally got the last seat
on PA 442 which was late and had
mechanical issues. Met Ehjan Hemnat
from Iran, whose brother is a GSFC
Contractor?! We flew to Miami on
PA442, then to Altlanta on EA452.
Ehjan had trouble getting his Big Red
Bag off EA452 in Atlanta (ATL).
I flagged down EA 452 (8300) and
pulled his bag out of Cargo for him,
before it took off. Flew to BWI
on EA434 (727) and arrived 0207 on
Monday June 2. Met my Dad at BWI.
117. June 2, 1980
Final 747 Flight PA 442
Dad met
me at BWI
@ 0207
Passport # A1079043
Lost somewhere after I
passed thru Miami
(MIA) Immigration.