I was stranded in Gander in the early 70’s. My Icelandic flight developed mechanical issues and we were forced to land in Gander. We had to wait hours for a replacement aircraft and then hours due to a snowstorm. Residents of Gander came to the airport w hot soup, bread, coffee and blankets. They stayed with us, engaged us in lively conversation and stories. They were so welcoming and generous. We enjoyed our unexpected layover and I have maintained a friendship with a woman there for 50 years. They have a long history of generosity of spirit , so I wasn’t a bit surprised at their out pouring of support and love on 9/11. I am so thankful that Canada is our neighbor .
What a lovely comment! As a Newfoundlander, it warms my heart to think you have such wonderful things to say about your unexpected visit, even after all these years. Cheers!
I have so many memories of Gander, driving through on my way home from University, staying in Gander with a University friend who went on to work with NAV. No words to express the flood of memories I just had, your video has done it true justice. ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
Sounds like the best mechanical diversion ever! And would be especially weird landing somewhere few would even know where it was or that it existed at all :)
In 1978 I was serving with the Royal Air Force. I had a stop in Gander for a couple of days where I met my future wife. We are now both living in Gander. Great place.
Canada has roughly 318 billion trees, which cover almost 40% of the country. Canada's forests account for 30% of the world's forests, and the most common trees in the nation are spruce trees, which are distinguished by their needle-like leaves.
@@realscience948 The thing is that swamp spruce's main virtue is abundance. Aesthetically you might want to go with something ornamental. I mean don't get me wrong, I lived in Northern Alberta so I like a nice subarctic swamp as much as the next man but modern trends in landscape architecture don't favour it.
I used to work on the ramp in Gander for 12 years. September 11, 2001, what’s my first day back after my days off. It was only two people scheduled to work the ramp that day I was one of them along with my lead hand Nelson Piercy. It was supposed to have been a normal day for us with flights going between Gander and Halifax and Gander and St. John’s but little did we know that it was going to be the start of the busiest week of our lives this happened on a Tuesday morning I went home on Thursday for a few hours and I never got home until Sunday evening when the last plane departed. Great video 👍🏻
Thank you, to you and all the wonderful people of Gander and the surrounding towns/communities, for everything you did to assist the "plane people" who found themselves to be your unexpected guests in September, 2001. You have made your fellow Newfoundlanders proud by demonstrating the very best that people can be at such a terrible time. You certainly deserve the respect shown to you by everyone familiar with the "Come From Away" story! Bravo!
Oh. My. Gosh. 🥲 How wonderful to say, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE - TO YOU AND TO ALL IN GANDER WHO EMBRACED ALL THOSE ON 9/11 AND NOW ALL THOSE WHO 'COME FROM AWAY'. No other words. Gratitude.
Wow . Such a privilege. You have become part of a tragic part of history. But the glimmer of hope and hospitality and friendship and love given to strangers.
Steve, thank you for reminding us of the immense role player by Gander and the people of Newfoundland, during and in the aftermath of 911. The people are rightly to be commended for their humanity and empathy during the deluge of aircraft
My mother and I (then 5) stayed overnight at the Gander airport in 1955. We were returning from living in England for 3 years. The overnight temperatures in April were below freezing. The accommodation was a hard-sided-canvas room with a small window iced up on the inside from our breath. Heat was forced air, seemingly powered by a jet engine, cycling on and off. We alternated freezing and cooking. Needless to say, we got very little sleep. Our plane was a TWA Lockheed Constellation with four props. I was invited into the cockpit to pretend to fly it while we flew over the Atlantic on auto-pilot.
Those were the days when cockpit crews allowed kids to pretend they were flying the planes on long transatlantic flights in the right-hand copilot's seat as a schoolboy when I flew in BOAC Stratocruisers, (with the autopilot on, I'm sure) when I regularly travelled between Bermuda and to and from London for school. I felt very adult and sophisticated having a ginger ale in a Strat's lower bar/lounge. Our stops included, Gander, Goose Bay in Labrador Montreal, Iceland, Santa Maria in the Azores, Lisbon. I even saw the southern tip of Greenland once. The colour of the icebergs and sunlit sea was incredible.
Just starting to watch this, but Come From Away, the musical about what happened at Gander following the events of 9/11, is one of the greatest musicals I have ever seen - so much emotion and incredible music. I implore everyone to watch this.
Almost all the story is told in music. Search RUclips for Come From Away soundtrack. I listen every 9/11. Saw the show twice on B'way, most emotional I have ever been in a theatre.
You two never disappoint me 🙏 I've been watching you for 4 years when I started watching your trip on the ferry to the Shetlands. You remain my favourite RUclipsrs and this is another great one. I'm sadly not in a position to live my dream of travelling that I used to do at the moment and you keep me motivated and happy 😁 thanks guys!!
I remember very well the 9-11, I was having lunch and CNN was on at the moment , and then I couldnt believe my eyes but I never knew that this Gander int airport played such a huge role in it all so thank you for that info. I looked it up just now on CNN travel and both the runway and taxi-gates were full of planes redirected here in a photo that came up.
I think everyone remembers where they were when they first heard of the 9/11 tragedy. So poignant to see the Gander airport & with no one around it made it even more surreal. Really enjoying your Canadian trip. x J x
Steve. This brought back some memories. A couple of years after 9/11 I went on a tour of Newfoundland and Labrador. Our tour of course took us into Gander and out tour guide managed to get us into all the usually out of bounds areas. It was very interesting and of course so recent to 9/11. The many exhibitions weren’t there then but the airport manager who took us around told us the story of accommodating all the 9/11 travellers who were stranded here. The local people had provided so much to their visitors that, yes, long lasting friendships were made. Root Beer. I'm like Alicia, root beer tastes & smalls like some terrible medicine.
I enjoyed your video. You spoke of wanting to see the Sabina crash site. My father, Frank Tibbo, wrote a book about that crash. The book is called ‘Charlie Baker George’ after the Sabina airlines’ DC4 flight number 00CBG. The aircraft is actually quite disintegrated now. But the fuselage is still identifiable. A couple decades ago Dad arranged for Dr. Sam Martin to revisit the site via helicopter. Dr. Martin’s search team had found the survivors two days after the crash. I was told that the book is for sale at the airport gift shop. I believe Breakwater Books is still selling the book as well. Dad is known for his passion of bringing to life Gander’s rich aviation history. He was an air traffic controller, an author, TV host of ‘Milepost 213’ (he interviewed the pioneers of Gander, and the show is currently being rerun as Milepost 213 revisited) and a pilot.
😂I laughed when you reminded yourself to 'drive on the right'. when we were in the Highlands recently from U.S. our chant was 'drive left, drive left'. Have only been to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton ( beautiful!) but Newfoundland looks amazing, thanks for the tour. I didn't know about all the planes being stranded there on 9/11. Out of the worst of times comes the best in people❤
It wasn't until you were stood outside the airport that it clicked about the role the airport played in 2001. Another great video with history, trail walks and a beer or two.
I landed at Gander in February 1968 in a RAF Comet, for a refuelling stop, flying from Lyneham to New York. It was cold. Ice everywhere…. I can still remember waiting in the transit lounge trying to keep warm. Not a place to visit in winter. There was also a story of an RAF VC10 which was flying from Lyneham to Washington in winter. The navigator made a calculation error on the great circle track. Approaching the tip of Greenland, the pilot realised they were flying east, instead of west. Low on fuel, they declared an emergency. Gander was their only hope but the runway was buried in snow. A frantic effort was made by Gander airport to clear it. They just made it! Otherwise it would have been an unsurvivable ditching in the North Atlantic.
Yikes! That's a harrowing tale! But I'm relieved to find it has a happy ending. Phew! While it was cold, I'm glad your own visit to Gander was a safe one!
I saw the opening night of “Come from Away” on Broadway. Went back to the hotel and the mayor of Gander sat and had a drink with us after the show….small world 😊
This takes me back to stopping off twice on Freddie Laker airlines in the 90's only saw the international lounge as in transit. Like a place lost in time wonderful memories
😢Bangor, Maine seemed to be a more frequent refuelling stop than Gander. The first generation of Laker DC10s could make it nonstop with lighter loads- you hoped that whoever was doing the maths knew their stuff. Laker went bust in 1982, sadly - he made a brief effort to come back but it didn’t work out.
A visit well worth the drive. That airport lounge was stunning…like a time capsule. I was so impressed by all the exhibits. While I haven’t had the opportunity to see “Come From Away”, one of the songs in my repertoire is “I am here”, a very poignant song about a mother trying to call her son who’s a firefighter at NYC Rescue 2. What a fantastic side trip. To both you and Alicja, cheers, and ATB!
Gander is one of the most famous and well liked airports in the world from back in the day in the 1970s and 1980s. It’s a bit like Keflavik airport in Iceland. Thank you for featuring it on your channel.❤
Thank you for taking us on this fabulous trip with you Steve and Alijca. I couldn’t get over how quiet the roads were. Being completely honest I hadn’t really heard of Gander but really found it interesting and very moving. ❤xx
Stopped there many times in the early 80s to refuel on the way to the Saint Lucia in the Caribbean normally in February ,freezing cold and heavy snow, no airbridges or buses, wrap your self in blanket to keep warm, then 4 hours later arrive in Saint Lucia 32c,happy days.
Glad to see you enjoyed your trip to Newfoundland! My father worked at Gander Airport during the 70s and 80s. I was born in Gander and currently live in Gambo.
I have watched a lot of your vlogs now. I am very unwell just now and where's I used to travel the way you two do it is ow impossible. Too old and too ill. I get enormous please from travelling vicariously either with you or with you both. Simply delightful. Thank you so much. Absolutely first class. Kevin
That's the road I always have to take to get out home! I live in St John's nowadays, but I grew up in St Bernards, Newfoundland. So when you pass the big moose in Goobies, You take a left and follow the heritage run! Beautiful drive all the way out there.
So many happy memories of Gander Steve, I flew in there for work on the refinery at Come by Chance, landed in a blizzard and ended up staying in a hotel for 3 days with the weather. Thanks so much for bringing it back to me, Newfies are wonderful people 👍
Hi you two, my favorite adventures, have been watching/sharing your trips for months now, feel like I know you, keep doing what you do, and sharing with us, Liz
I did have my doubts about a 3.5 hour drive just to see an airport, but it couldnt have been more worthwhile. As usual you made a brilliant and informative video. Always seems like I am there with you! ❤
The frustrating thing for me watching this (especially as an aviation enthusiast!) is that we drove from St. John's to Gander, but didn't visit the airport!! We just didn't realise there was so much there to see! But what a nice surprise to see that you spent the night at the same place that we did!! I recall we spent the evening sitting outside reception, enjoying not only the bottle of vodka we'd bought at Heathrow, but also the incredible night sky...we'd never seen so many stars! 🌟⭐️🌟 The next morning, we also drove up to Twillingate. 😊
Isn't it incredible how much more clearly you can see the stars when there's very little light pollution! Terra Nova National Park, not far from Gander, was designated as a "Dark Sky Preserve" by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada in February of 2018.
@@carolmurphy7572 It truly was an incredible sight! We were excited at the time to try and capture what we were seeing on my video camera, but as I'm sure you can imagine, the results were dreadful, to say the least (and I'm sure the vodka didn't help either)! 😆
I have so many memories of Gander, driving through on my way home from University. Staying there with a University friend who went on to work with NAV. My brother’s engineering company. No words to describe the flash of memories this video just brought back … love, love, love ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
Both museums were fascinating. 28:25 - "I'm sending out an SOS"🎶 - Message in a Bottle, The Police. Frozen root beer, yum! For some reason, I want to watch a movie called Roots. If you ever get sponsored by a company, I have an idea where you should put the logo. 😉
If you are visiting Canada, and you see a group of people sitting in camp chairs in a parking lot, you should definitely say hello. Being friendly with random strangers is common, especially in less urban parts of Canada. Newfoundlanders are especially famous, even in Canada, for their friendliness. You'll also get the inside track on where to go to eat, sink a pint, and figure out what the locals do for fun.
BIG THANKS FOR the aircraft museum Steve, I loved it. (Holdiays at gas station they Always charge you more i used to work next to gas station and soon learn on holiday everything suddenly x2 in price)
Swiss Chalet at Gander, I had forgotten about that food chain they have been going for years, I remember eating at their restaurants when I worked in Canada in 1978 and many other years afterwards.
What a cool airport! I love the museum vibe.I flew Air Transat when I lived in Edmonton, Alberta in the late 1990s. I think it was Calgary to Glasgow. It was a cheapie ticket on an old plane and it had to land at Gander to re-fuel. We were not allowed to get off the plane but they opened the plane doors so I had a gander at Gander!
Great idea for a video. Love the pace and the long-form chilled vibe of these types of vlogs. Also love that you just casually drove past the General bloody Lee at 35:57 and didn't bother to mention it ... too cool for skool!
I flew into Gander on Friday 13th December 1974. Crossing the Atlantic in an RAF Comet. UK to the Azores, Azores to Gander, Gander to Washington DC.. What a trip! Next day Washington to New York, New York to Toronto, Toronto to Calgary, Then a bus trip to Suffield Alberta. Jet lagged for a week. Thanks for reminding me. Would I do it all again, in a heart beat.
Thanks for the video!! Your Nfld&Labrador series is awesome. You guys have outdone yourselves! I first heard of Gander back in Scotland in the early 1970s when my grandma used to tell us about flying to New York City (from Prestwick) in th 1930s-50s and had to land in Gander. I never thought much about the place until the 1990s when I ended up having to land there a few times when the St. John's airport was too fogged in to land. A plane load of passengers would have to sit at Gander for six hours until a bus could get sent from St. John's to pick us up and take us down to St. John's. It once took over 24 hours to fly from Victoria, BC to St. John's because of the fog and waiting for transportation from Gander to St. John's. My favourite memory of the Gander trips is when the bus would stop at the Goobies junction (enroute to St. John's) and we'd have a cup of tea and meet the locals at the cafe. A lot of of fun and super nice people.
Thank you very much for showing me a part on NF that we missed. I just love ALL your vlogs. You make such an effort for us to see such interesting areas. Watch the black flies as they are vicious and take chunks out of you! A very vivid memory from our trip in 1970 travelling with 4 kids across Canada from NF to Vancouver in VW camper!
That was great, looks lovely, scenic and the sunlight improves evreything. Never ceases to thrill me when I see roads like these, well engineered, wide and virtually no traffic. Those aircraft at the museum, they would have been cutting edge technology at the time, my, how things have changed. Of course you will be home by now, so I can't say "enjoy the rest of the trip", but will close with the comment "looking forwards to your next upload"!
❤❤❤one of my favorite videos that you've ever posted!! I must say when you showed the 9/11 beam and spoke a bit about its history to Gander, I got a bit misty-eyed. But to then see Alicia touching the beam with such reverence, that moment moved me greatly. Thank you for honoring that moment in such a sincere way. I love your banter and comments and your spontaneous travels. You do a lot of the things that I would want to do if I made these trips myself.
Glad you found the Aviation Museum! Looking forward to Twilingate…..it was my favourite place on our visit to Newfoundland. We met the family of the Mayor of Gander in 2001 one night as we were having dinner.
This is exactly the kind of road trip I love. I don't know if I'll ever get to Newf, it's actually much farther from where I am in, in Canada (Vancouver Island), and much hard to get to, than it is from the UK. This was an excellent video. Oh, and the World Trade Centre beam actually took my breath away in surprise... and kind of awe. I'm glad Alicja had that look on her face when she was touching it... I'm sure that is the look I had on my face when you showed it. :D
Great video! 911 was very hard to remember but the folks in Gander were amazing. Canada looks a lot like Finland. Although we had +27 in May. Finland has 74% of forests. Looking forward to the next one!
That was really cool, thank you for sharing that with us all, a real insight in to what Gander is like, that was fascinating, especially for me as i am an aviation geek lol 👍🇨🇦✈️
Good morning…really enjoyed this video. I love watching planes and Gander airport is very nice. Wow when I saw the 911 display it brought tears to my eyes such a horrible time. It was really cool to see an A & W drive through 😊 haven’t seen one of those since I was little living in Texas that brought back memories as I too love root beer. Excited for the next leg of the journey 🤗❤️
Great video again. The musical, Come From Away, is one of the best we’ve seen. We first saw it in London, a few years ago and most recently, a few weeks ago, in Hull. If you get the chance to see it, you should.
You know you've arrived in North America when you shop at a Walmart, see a General Lee Charger parked in the parking lot, and come back to the hotel with a six pack of Busch Light! 😂 Love you both! ❤
Really enjoyed this one, you are a couple of wanderers, which resonates with me. The way you like to go down streets/alleys/paths etc just to see what is there. Amazing what you can find. Loved all the aircraft stuff, and the history on the kindness of the folks around there. Thanks a lot you two for sharing this with us.
Thoroughly recommend going to see Come From Away in Aberdeen or Edinburgh in September. I spent 24 hours in that departure hall when my flight had to return last summer with a medical emergency. Those couches were surprisingly comfortable to sleep on overnight. I'll look out for your boarding pass next month when I'm back there.
I was stranded in Gander in the early 70’s. My Icelandic flight developed mechanical issues and we were forced to land in Gander. We had to wait hours for a replacement aircraft and then hours due to a snowstorm. Residents of Gander came to the airport w hot soup, bread, coffee and blankets. They stayed with us, engaged us in lively conversation and stories. They were so welcoming and generous. We enjoyed our unexpected layover and I have maintained a friendship with a woman there for 50 years. They have a long history of generosity of spirit , so I wasn’t a bit surprised at their out pouring of support and love
on 9/11. I am so thankful that Canada is our neighbor .
What a lovely comment! As a Newfoundlander, it warms my heart to think you have such wonderful things to say about your unexpected visit, even after all these years. Cheers!
@@carolmurphy7572I have been back often over the years. Always a wonderful experience. Wish you could work on the fog in St John. Cheers to you.
I have so many memories of Gander, driving through on my way home from University, staying in Gander with a University friend who went on to work with NAV. No words to express the flood of memories I just had, your video has done it true justice. ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
Did you check for bears in the woods?
Sounds like the best mechanical diversion ever! And would be especially weird landing somewhere few would even know where it was or that it existed at all :)
In 1978 I was serving with the Royal Air Force. I had a stop in Gander for a couple of days where I met my future wife. We are now both living in Gander. Great place.
That’s so romantic! ❤️🔥
Based at RAF Goose Bay in the 70's married a Lab girl, now in Halifax...
Canada has roughly 318 billion trees, which cover almost 40% of the country. Canada's forests account for 30% of the world's forests, and the most common trees in the nation are spruce trees, which are distinguished by their needle-like leaves.
Kisses to both of you for mentioning the beauty of trees!
Yet..property management can’t plant “one” tree in front of my townhouse?
@@realscience948 The thing is that swamp spruce's main virtue is abundance. Aesthetically you might want to go with something ornamental. I mean don't get me wrong, I lived in Northern Alberta so I like a nice subarctic swamp as much as the next man but modern trends in landscape architecture don't favour it.
You know you’re a fan of the channel when you 👍 before you start watching it🤣
I DO THAT TOO! 😅
@@CherylSteele-rt8dj I'll third that!
Always .x
Me too 😅
I do that with all the channels I like including here
I used to work on the ramp in Gander for 12 years.
September 11, 2001, what’s my first day back after my days off. It was only two people scheduled to work the ramp that day I was one of them along with my lead hand Nelson Piercy. It was supposed to have been a normal day for us with flights going between Gander and Halifax and Gander and St. John’s but little did we know that it was going to be the start of the busiest week of our lives this happened on a Tuesday morning I went home on Thursday for a few hours and I never got home until Sunday evening when the last plane departed.
Great video 👍🏻
Thank you, to you and all the wonderful people of Gander and the surrounding towns/communities, for everything you did to assist the "plane people" who found themselves to be your unexpected guests in September, 2001. You have made your fellow Newfoundlanders proud by demonstrating the very best that people can be at such a terrible time. You certainly deserve the respect shown to you by everyone familiar with the "Come From Away" story! Bravo!
@@VoxRox1 Thsnk you for all you did on that horrible day and subsequent days. The hospitality and generosity made such an impression on all of us!
@@katewilliams4876😊 it’s good to be appreciated
Oh. My. Gosh. 🥲 How wonderful to say, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE - TO YOU AND TO ALL IN GANDER WHO EMBRACED ALL THOSE ON 9/11 AND NOW ALL THOSE WHO 'COME FROM AWAY'. No other words. Gratitude.
Wow . Such a privilege. You have become part of a tragic part of history. But the glimmer of hope and hospitality and friendship and love given to strangers.
Steve, thank you for reminding us of the immense role player by Gander and the people of Newfoundland, during and in the aftermath of 911. The people are rightly to be commended for their humanity and empathy during the deluge of aircraft
My mother and I (then 5) stayed overnight at the Gander airport in 1955. We were returning from living in England for 3 years. The overnight temperatures in April were below freezing. The accommodation was a hard-sided-canvas room with a small window iced up on the inside from our breath. Heat was forced air, seemingly powered by a jet engine, cycling on and off. We alternated freezing and cooking. Needless to say, we got very little sleep.
Our plane was a TWA Lockheed Constellation with four props. I was invited into the cockpit to pretend to fly it while we flew over the Atlantic on auto-pilot.
Thanks for sharing! :)
Those were the days when cockpit crews allowed kids to pretend they were flying the planes on long transatlantic flights in the right-hand copilot's seat as a schoolboy when I flew in BOAC Stratocruisers, (with the autopilot on, I'm sure) when I regularly travelled between Bermuda and to and from London for school. I felt very adult and sophisticated having a ginger ale in a Strat's lower bar/lounge. Our stops included, Gander, Goose Bay in Labrador Montreal, Iceland, Santa Maria in the Azores, Lisbon. I even saw the southern tip of Greenland once. The colour of the icebergs and sunlit sea was incredible.
Just starting to watch this, but Come From Away, the musical about what happened at Gander following the events of 9/11, is one of the greatest musicals I have ever seen - so much emotion and incredible music. I implore everyone to watch this.
Almost all the story is told in music. Search RUclips for Come From Away soundtrack. I listen every 9/11. Saw the show twice on B'way, most emotional I have ever been in a theatre.
You two never disappoint me 🙏 I've been watching you for 4 years when I started watching your trip on the ferry to the Shetlands. You remain my favourite RUclipsrs and this is another great one. I'm sadly not in a position to live my dream of travelling that I used to do at the moment and you keep me motivated and happy 😁 thanks guys!!
Have to absolutely agree with you...perhaps your travels may return..take care.🥰
@@carolynstewart9103 I dream to travel again as I used to do when I was a travel agent. Hope you're well 😁
I remember very well the 9-11, I was having lunch and CNN was on at the moment , and then I couldnt believe my eyes but I never knew that this Gander int airport played such a huge role in it all so thank you for that info. I looked it up just now on CNN travel and both the runway and taxi-gates were full of planes redirected here in a photo that came up.
What a fascinating history the airport has. How hate from a few was matched by kindness from so many. The actual radar screen was chilling
Well said!
I think everyone remembers where they were when they first heard of the 9/11 tragedy. So poignant to see the Gander airport & with no one around it made it even more surreal. Really enjoying your Canadian trip. x J x
🇺🇸 ❤ 🇨🇦 9-11-2001, We 🇺🇸 will never forget all the great people of Gander XO 🤗
Thank you. What a lovely, thoughtful comment!
Trees in Canada estimated 318 Billion which amounts to 30% of the World's forests - Thanks again guys for a really fascinating series of Videos.
I loved Come From Away so great to see the town/airport it’s set in.
Steve. This brought back some memories. A couple of years after 9/11 I went on a tour of Newfoundland and Labrador. Our tour of course took us into Gander and out tour guide managed to get us into all the usually out of bounds areas. It was very interesting and of course so recent to 9/11. The many exhibitions weren’t there then but the airport manager who took us around told us the story of accommodating all the 9/11 travellers who were stranded here. The local people had provided so much to their visitors that, yes, long lasting friendships were made.
Root Beer. I'm like Alicia, root beer tastes & smalls like some terrible medicine.
I enjoyed your video. You spoke of wanting to see the Sabina crash site. My father, Frank Tibbo, wrote a book about that crash. The book is called ‘Charlie Baker George’ after the Sabina airlines’ DC4 flight number 00CBG. The aircraft is actually quite disintegrated now. But the fuselage is still identifiable. A couple decades ago Dad arranged for Dr. Sam Martin to revisit the site via helicopter. Dr. Martin’s search team had found the survivors two days after the crash. I was told that the book is for sale at the airport gift shop. I believe Breakwater Books is still selling the book as well. Dad is known for his passion of bringing to life Gander’s rich aviation history. He was an air traffic controller, an author, TV host of ‘Milepost 213’ (he interviewed the pioneers of Gander, and the show is currently being rerun as Milepost 213 revisited) and a pilot.
It is so sad that SABENA and many other carriers have folded.
😂I laughed when you reminded yourself to 'drive on the right'. when we were in the Highlands recently from U.S. our chant was 'drive left, drive left'. Have only been to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton ( beautiful!) but Newfoundland looks amazing, thanks for the tour. I didn't know about all the planes being stranded there on 9/11. Out of the worst of times comes the best in people❤
That airport was so cool . Loved the museum there . Enjoyed the video . Cheers
It wasn't until you were stood outside the airport that it clicked about the role the airport played in 2001. Another great video with history, trail walks and a beer or two.
I landed at Gander in February 1968 in a RAF Comet, for a refuelling stop, flying from Lyneham to New York. It was cold. Ice everywhere…. I can still remember waiting in the transit lounge trying to keep warm. Not a place to visit in winter.
There was also a story of an RAF VC10 which was flying from Lyneham to Washington in winter. The navigator made a calculation error on the great circle track. Approaching the tip of Greenland, the pilot realised they were flying east, instead of west. Low on fuel, they declared an emergency. Gander was their only hope but the runway was buried in snow. A frantic effort was made by Gander airport to clear it. They just made it! Otherwise it would have been an unsurvivable ditching in the North Atlantic.
Yikes! That's a harrowing tale! But I'm relieved to find it has a happy ending. Phew!
While it was cold, I'm glad your own visit to Gander was a safe one!
I was cabin crew on RAF VC10 s and glad that didn’t happen to me. I have made lots of scheduled visits to Gander.
Wow! Thanks for sharing!
I saw the opening night of “Come from Away” on Broadway. Went back to the hotel and the mayor of Gander sat and had a drink with us after the show….small world 😊
What a cool memory! Thanks for sharing it!
TV series featuring the Douglas C-47 was Airline from 1982 staring Roy Marsden.
Loved that series 👍
Brought back happy memories from early 70s when I lived there.
I was there around that time as well just a kid of around 10yrs of age
This takes me back to stopping off twice on Freddie Laker airlines in the 90's only saw the international lounge as in transit. Like a place lost in time wonderful memories
😢Bangor, Maine seemed to be a more frequent refuelling stop than Gander. The first generation of Laker DC10s could make it nonstop with lighter loads- you hoped that whoever was doing the maths knew their stuff. Laker went bust in 1982, sadly - he made a brief effort to come back but it didn’t work out.
@@meriden53 I flew in the mid 90s to Florida on a DC 10
A visit well worth the drive. That airport lounge was stunning…like a time capsule. I was so impressed by all the exhibits. While I haven’t had the opportunity to see “Come From Away”, one of the songs in my repertoire is “I am here”, a very poignant song about a mother trying to call her son who’s a firefighter at NYC Rescue 2. What a fantastic side trip. To both you and Alicja, cheers, and ATB!
Gander is one of the most famous and well liked airports in the world from back in the day in the 1970s and 1980s. It’s a bit like Keflavik airport in Iceland. Thank you for featuring it on your channel.❤
Lots of information that I knew nothing of…thanks guys!
You two should have your own tv show, amazing video as always guys, thanks for sharing your travels.
Thank you for taking us on this fabulous trip with you Steve and Alijca. I couldn’t get over how quiet the roads were. Being completely honest I hadn’t really heard of Gander but really found it interesting and very moving. ❤xx
Thank you for coming to our amazing town! You are an amazing storyteller! Have a safe travel and watch for the moose.
The friendliest place I've ever been.. fantastic people in Gander ❤
Videos are brilliant 👏 love watching them watch 1 then before know it 3 hours into them lol
Stopped there many times in the early 80s to refuel on the way to the Saint Lucia in the Caribbean normally in February ,freezing cold and heavy snow, no airbridges or buses, wrap your self in blanket to keep warm, then 4 hours later arrive in Saint Lucia 32c,happy days.
Glad to see you enjoyed your trip to Newfoundland! My father worked at Gander Airport during the 70s and 80s. I was born in Gander and currently live in Gambo.
I have watched a lot of your vlogs now. I am very unwell just now and where's I used to travel the way you two do it is ow impossible. Too old and too ill. I get enormous please from travelling vicariously either with you or with you both. Simply delightful. Thank you so much. Absolutely first class. Kevin
Nice ROOTS! Steve, you ALWAYS outdo yourself in every video you make. Thanks for showing us Gander and Newfoundland.
It’s nice to see someone not American or Canadian that likes root beer. I grew up on it and love it.
Steve is a traitor! Irn Bru only 👍😂🤣🏴
just gotta get him to try its sisters sarsaparilla and birch beer, maybe Moxie!
That's the road I always have to take to get out home! I live in St John's nowadays, but I grew up in St Bernards, Newfoundland. So when you pass the big moose in Goobies, You take a left and follow the heritage run! Beautiful drive all the way out there.
Gander, my home town as Dad was stationed there when I was born.
So many happy memories of Gander Steve, I flew in there for work on the refinery at Come by Chance, landed in a blizzard and ended up staying in a hotel for 3 days with the weather. Thanks so much for bringing it back to me, Newfies are wonderful people 👍
Hi you two, my favorite adventures, have been watching/sharing your trips for months now, feel like I know you, keep doing what you do, and sharing with us, Liz
oh I love how at 17:38 she hands you the little pamphlet and says " we're doing this " ... that's how you travel :)
I did have my doubts about a 3.5 hour drive just to see an airport, but it couldnt have been more worthwhile. As usual you made a brilliant and informative video. Always seems like I am there with you! ❤
The frustrating thing for me watching this (especially as an aviation enthusiast!) is that we drove from St. John's to Gander, but didn't visit the airport!! We just didn't realise there was so much there to see!
But what a nice surprise to see that you spent the night at the same place that we did!! I recall we spent the evening sitting outside reception, enjoying not only the bottle of vodka we'd bought at Heathrow, but also the incredible night sky...we'd never seen so many stars! 🌟⭐️🌟 The next morning, we also drove up to Twillingate. 😊
Isn't it incredible how much more clearly you can see the stars when there's very little light pollution! Terra Nova National Park, not far from Gander, was designated as a "Dark Sky Preserve" by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada in February of 2018.
@@carolmurphy7572 It truly was an incredible sight! We were excited at the time to try and capture what we were seeing on my video camera, but as I'm sure you can imagine, the results were dreadful, to say the least (and I'm sure the vodka didn't help either)! 😆
I have so many memories of Gander, driving through on my way home from University. Staying there with a University friend who went on to work with NAV. My brother’s engineering company. No words to describe the flash of memories this video just brought back … love, love, love ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
Both museums were fascinating.
28:25 - "I'm sending out an SOS"🎶 - Message in a Bottle, The Police.
Frozen root beer, yum!
For some reason, I want to watch a movie called Roots. If you ever get sponsored by a company, I have an idea where you should put the logo. 😉
We emigrated from Scotland in 1958 and had a stopover in Gander to refuel before landing in TO…it was in January and I had never seen so much snow!
If you are visiting Canada, and you see a group of people sitting in camp chairs in a parking lot, you should definitely say hello. Being friendly with random strangers is common, especially in less urban parts of Canada. Newfoundlanders are especially famous, even in Canada, for their friendliness. You'll also get the inside track on where to go to eat, sink a pint, and figure out what the locals do for fun.
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im born in raised in NFL and i love seeing people enjoying my home and seeing all the places i grew up in
infact, i only live an hour away from Gander. Im up north near Twillingate island 😁
Newfoundland was not a place I would have considered but the place looks amazing and bigger than I imagined.
BIG THANKS FOR the aircraft museum Steve, I loved it. (Holdiays at gas station they Always charge you more i used to work next to gas station and soon learn on holiday everything suddenly x2 in price)
A great video Steve and Alicija. A lot crammed into a short video. Alicja is like a kid in a sweetie shop , always exploring
I Love NEWFOUNDLAND💯❤
Steve, you guys drove right by the General Lee car in the Walmart parking lot! 😂 My husband saw it, cool Easter egg.
Steve good choice on the Root Beer! A&W is awesome!
Thanks again for taking us on your travels, really enjoy them.....
Swiss Chalet at Gander, I had forgotten about that food chain they have been going for years, I remember eating at their restaurants when I worked in Canada in 1978 and many other years afterwards.
Thanks for the enjoyable time in Gander. Loved both museums. So happy they had and A&W for you to enjoy. Waiting for the next adventure!!
What a cool airport! I love the museum vibe.I flew Air Transat when I lived in Edmonton, Alberta in the late 1990s. I think it was Calgary to Glasgow. It was a cheapie ticket on an old plane and it had to land at Gander to re-fuel. We were not allowed to get off the plane but they opened the plane doors so I had a gander at Gander!
That was a nice treat, because I love airports and planes. 👍😊🇮🇪🇨🇦
I highly recommend the book " The Day The World Came to Town" by Jim Defede. Thanks for another terrific video!
So glad you had blue skies for your gander 😉 Wonderful adventure, as always! 😁 You two make a great traveling team. 👍🏼👍🏼
Great idea for a video. Love the pace and the long-form chilled vibe of these types of vlogs. Also love that you just casually drove past the General bloody Lee at 35:57 and didn't bother to mention it ... too cool for skool!
I flew into Gander on Friday 13th December 1974. Crossing the Atlantic in an RAF Comet. UK to the Azores, Azores to Gander, Gander to Washington DC.. What a trip! Next day Washington to New York, New York to Toronto, Toronto to Calgary, Then a bus trip to Suffield Alberta. Jet lagged for a week. Thanks for reminding me. Would I do it all again, in a heart beat.
And do you remember that in RAF aircraft, all the seats faced backwards! The Comets were particularly cramped leg room seats…
@@paulturner9765 Only in the VC10.
@@paulturner9765 The RCAF Yukon (Canadair licensed Brittania) also had backward seats.
Thanks for the video!! Your Nfld&Labrador series is awesome. You guys have outdone yourselves! I first heard of Gander back in Scotland in the early 1970s when my grandma used to tell us about flying to New York City (from Prestwick) in th 1930s-50s and had to land in Gander. I never thought much about the place until the 1990s when I ended up having to land there a few times when the St. John's airport was too fogged in to land. A plane load of passengers would have to sit at Gander for six hours until a bus could get sent from St. John's to pick us up and take us down to St. John's. It once took over 24 hours to fly from Victoria, BC to St. John's because of the fog and waiting for transportation from Gander to St. John's. My favourite memory of the Gander trips is when the bus would stop at the Goobies junction (enroute to St. John's) and we'd have a cup of tea and meet the locals at the cafe. A lot of of fun and super nice people.
Thank you very much for showing me a part on NF that we missed. I just love ALL your vlogs. You make such an effort for us to see such interesting areas. Watch the black flies as they are vicious and take chunks out of you! A very vivid memory from our trip in 1970 travelling with 4 kids across Canada from NF to Vancouver in VW camper!
We enjoyed travelling with both of you again today. Looking forward to your next adventure. ❤️🇨🇦
That was great, looks lovely, scenic and the sunlight improves evreything. Never ceases to thrill me when I see roads like these, well engineered, wide and virtually no traffic. Those aircraft at the museum, they would have been cutting edge technology at the time, my, how things have changed. Of course you will be home by now, so I can't say "enjoy the rest of the trip", but will close with the comment "looking forwards to your next upload"!
The S.O.S. made my day, thanks!
I was scanning the comments for this!
❤❤❤one of my favorite videos that you've ever posted!! I must say when you showed the 9/11 beam and spoke a bit about its history to Gander, I got a bit misty-eyed. But to then see Alicia touching the beam with such reverence, that moment moved me greatly. Thank you for honoring that moment in such a sincere way.
I love your banter and comments and your spontaneous travels. You do a lot of the things that I would want to do if I made these trips myself.
Thanks so much :)
Agree with your sentiments 100%
Gander's 100% on my bucket list.. this place looks amazing 😃
Go to gander to have a gander!! You know what I'm talking about love to you both in montrose from aberdeen.xx
Thinking the same.lol
@@RichardFelstead1949 how are you Belstead.?
Having a gander at Gander! Great video as always. Keep up the great work, look forward to next week’s instalment.
Oh my god steve!!! Whyyyyy!!!!! I am from the province of Québec and seeing you eat your first poutine in a newfoundland harveys is killing me.
Nice video. i Iliked the sequence of the Airport and the Aviation Musuem
you take us to some fascinating and fantastic places, thanks
Glad you found the Aviation Museum!
Looking forward to Twilingate…..it was my favourite place on our visit to Newfoundland.
We met the family of the Mayor of Gander in 2001 one night as we were having dinner.
Wonderful! Now I can say I’ve had a gander at Gander 🙌🏻
Thank you for the gander of Gander.🤣 Fascinating.
This is exactly the kind of road trip I love. I don't know if I'll ever get to Newf, it's actually much farther from where I am in, in Canada (Vancouver Island), and much hard to get to, than it is from the UK. This was an excellent video. Oh, and the World Trade Centre beam actually took my breath away in surprise... and kind of awe. I'm glad Alicja had that look on her face when she was touching it... I'm sure that is the look I had on my face when you showed it. :D
Love your videos; very partial to Newfoundland; cheers from Nova Scotia, Canada🇨🇦
Great video! 911 was very hard to remember but the folks in Gander were amazing. Canada looks a lot like Finland. Although we had +27 in May. Finland has 74% of forests. Looking forward to the next one!
I still need to get to Gander, and the Viking site. Thanks for the great video, Steve.
Yes Gander was the test site for the Concorde because it had the longest runway in the world.
It was also an alternative for emergency landings by the space shuttle
Thanks for the video
That was really cool, thank you for sharing that with us all, a real insight in to what Gander is like, that was fascinating, especially for me as i am an aviation geek lol 👍🇨🇦✈️
Good morning…really enjoyed this video. I love watching planes and Gander airport is very nice. Wow when I saw the 911 display it brought tears to my eyes such a horrible time. It was really cool to see an A & W drive through 😊 haven’t seen one of those since I was little living in Texas that brought back memories as I too love root beer. Excited for the next leg of the journey 🤗❤️
A very interesting, educational, entertaining informative and engaging video. Thanks for sharing.
Great video again.
The musical, Come From Away, is one of the best we’ve seen. We first saw it in London, a few years ago and most recently, a few weeks ago, in Hull. If you get the chance to see it, you should.
Fantastic video, thank you to the both of you. Its a place that I would never think of visiting. But as always love any video you make.
Swiss Chalet, the Tim Hortons of poutine.😮
Great portrait of Gander.
You know you've arrived in North America when you shop at a Walmart, see a General Lee Charger parked in the parking lot, and come back to the hotel with a six pack of Busch Light! 😂
Love you both! ❤
As a fan of root beer I was envious of your frozen one and Alicja’s face when tasting it was priceless. Another great video!
funny how she described it, it was for decades served hot as a medicine!
Proof that powerful history doesn’t need ancient stone walls! Gander Airport is fascinating! 👍
Great point mate :)
Really enjoyed this one, you are a couple of wanderers, which resonates with me. The way you like to go down streets/alleys/paths etc just to see what is there. Amazing what you can find. Loved all the aircraft stuff, and the history on the kindness of the folks around there. Thanks a lot you two for sharing this with us.
Brilliant video as always!! Have been diverted to Gander a fair few times in my life.
Hope all is well, take care
Nice video! I live in Gambo, the town you looked over at Joey's lookout. The hotdog guy is a local legend lol.
Thoroughly recommend going to see Come From Away in Aberdeen or Edinburgh in September. I spent 24 hours in that departure hall when my flight had to return last summer with a medical emergency. Those couches were surprisingly comfortable to sleep on overnight.
I'll look out for your boarding pass next month when I'm back there.
Really enjoying your north-east Canada travels.