Dream Destination for 'Belly' Lovers

My curiosity for aviation reached a higher level when on my recent first trip to US, I was luckily on board a British Airways Boeing 747-400 Jumbo Jet.

Photo Courtesy -  www.airplane-pictures.net/

At first glance from the gate where I was about to board, I thought it was just another aircraft and seemed bigger just because I was so close. Once inside, looking at the stairs to the upper deck, I realized what seemed big was actually THE ROYALLY MIGHTY one. Having seated, I had to turn my neck a whole 120 degrees to get a complete view of the humongous wing span.

The Jumbo Jet is one of the fastest commercial carrier and is known for its long haul and large passenger carrying capacity.

Ok, now coming to the actual topic of this post... well, a video is worth 100 thousand words, and I will let this St. Maarten Caribbean Airport's video tell you where I want to head sometime in my life to have a dekko of the 'bellies'.

It could be either the bellies in the air, or the ones on the shore that could make the trip a real exciting one!
:-)

The dream to drive a Volvo bus :-)

I was always fascinated by luxury buses plying on intercity trips in my childhood. Most of them had neatly done paint jobs on them, fancy tail-lights, apart from BIG external rear view mirrors to keep track of the extra large body length.

More recently, with the introduction of Volvo and Mercedes buses my love and fascination for these buses has further deepened :-) And it has been so much that, during my regular Pune-Mumbai trips earlier by Shivneri, I used to prefer the seat just behind the driver to get a direct view of the road, the control stalks around the driver and the of course the way they easily maneuver these mammoth machines.
I remember having spoken to a few of those neatly dressed drivers of private Volvo buses on a couple of occasions, just in hope that I would be offered a test drive some day :-)

The dream still remains to be fulfilled... certainly one of the TO-DO items in my life!