Globe Corner Blogs

I have hit a Christmas present-buying road block. My father officially has everything he will ever need that concerns golf. He neither needs nor wants anything else except for his grandson to become the next Tiger Woods. This has become a problem for me, because I have faithfully given him some golf related gift since I was an infant.

So, I have to move on to another one of his obsessions: Boeing and airplanes. I recently gave him the book Ask the Pilot: Everything you Need to Know About Air Travel. Patrick Smith, an airline pilot explains all the secrets and mysteries of commercial flights. My dad’s review was “I’ll be darned! I never knew that in the 1950s a Boeing 707 was intentionally flown upside down! How did I miss that!?” If you knew my dad, you would be impressed. He is a man of few words.

So when I was reading The Boston Globe’s Travel section this past Sunday, I was excited to read the article Warbirds and Wonderbirds about visiting the Future of Flight Aviation Center and the Flying Heritage Collection in Seattle. This seems like a great tour for Dad and me to go on next time I am visiting home in Seattle. It also prompted me to browse the shelves at the Globe Corner Bookstore looking for aviation-themed books suitable for him this Christmas. The Smithsonian Atlas of the World of Aviation seems to be the perfect companion for our future visit to the Flying Heritage Collection Tour.

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Lisa can usually be found staring longingly at the Eastern European shelf at the Globe Corner Bookstore. However, she really wants to go to Colombia.

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