{"id":1212,"date":"2009-10-28T17:24:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T22:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2009-10-28T17:28:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T22:28:19","slug":"canary-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=1212","title":{"rendered":"Canary Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>I just sent some machine gears to the Canary Islands. You have heard of that place. Little islands in the Atlantic off the coast of Africa. What I found interesting was the gear order was from Spain. I was naturally thinking of mainland Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The city name was Guimar and that didn&#8217;t cause me any excitement. The name of the Spanish state was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tenerife\" target=\"_blank\">Tenerife<\/a>. That sounded familiar but I didn&#8217;t know why. (Site of the world&#8217;s worst commercial airliners (2) crash.)<\/p>\n<p>I filled the order and sent it off. I even exchanged an email or two with the purchaser about a few details in the order. It was all very friendly and casual and in very good English. Not unusual in the world market.<\/p>\n<p>The name Tenerife was haunting me so I brought up Google\u00a0Earth and punched in the address in the search. Off I flew heading across the Atlantic and somewhat out of focus (as usual). It zoomed down to the street level and there I was looking at some rooftops and streets.<\/p>\n<p>I climbed higher in the sky to get a broader look and holycow! I saw volcano craters. Wow! this guy lives near the coast between TWO volcanoes. One inland and the other\u00a0right in the harbor. I thought to myself, &#8220;Gee, I never knew they had volcanoes in Spain.&#8221; I thought I was on the Mediterranean coast.<\/p>\n<p>I backed away a little higher and discovered I was looking at an island. &#8220;Wow, this is an island!&#8221; (I&#8217;m observant that way.) Well, soon enough I saw I was down by Africa and WOW oh WOW! these are the Canary Islands. I have often wondered what it was like in that place. I always wanted to make a radio contact there. That&#8217;s why Tenerife was familiar.<\/p>\n<p>So that order made my day. It started out just like any other export but then gave me an excuse to do some Google Earth exploring. Thanks! Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tenerife\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just sent some machine gears to the Canary Islands. You have heard of that place. Little islands in the Atlantic off the coast of Africa. What I found interesting was the gear order was from Spain. I was naturally thinking of mainland Spain. The city name was Guimar and that didn&#8217;t cause me any excitement. The name of the Spanish state was Tenerife. That sounded familiar but I didn&#8217;t know why. (Site of the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thmstore","tag-customer-satisfaction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}