User:Keithw
My Background
66 year old retired software engineer Left school at 16 to became a Technical Apprentice at ICI in 1968, worked there until 1973 Then spent the next 10 years in Construction in the Petrochemical and Nuclear fields. Went back to college in 1983 to study Computer Aided Enginnering Became a road warrior again this time working in Engineering Sofware
Places I Lived
Middlesbrough, Lydd, Harrow, Edgware, Singapore - 3 months, Columbus Ohio - 3 years, Gamlingay South Cambs - 20 years, Marton in Cleveland - 2 years and counting
Places I worked
ICI Wilton, ICI Billingham, Whessoe Dock Point Fabrication Yard, Shell Refinery Teesport, Foster Wheeler Power Products - Nuclear submarine bits , Dungeness B Nuclear Power Station, McDermott - Aberdeen, McDermott - London, AEA Technolgies - Harwell and Cambridge, Bentley Systems - Walnut Creek CA and Cambridge,
Major Overseas Roads I have driven.
USA, Old US Route 66 , Skyline Drive (Appalachians), US National Route 40 New Jersey to Utah US I-80 Utah to Sacramento, US I-5 San Diego to Seattle, US I-90 Seattle to South Dakota
Canada Alaskan Highway from Calgary to Valdez Alaska, Prince Rupert to Calgary via Jasper and Banff, Toronto to Thunder Bay via Sault St Marie
Australia Stuart Highway Darwin to Alice Springs and Uluru, Adelaide to Melbourne via Great Ocean Highway, A1 Brisbane to Townvilled
Europe Calais to Tuscany via the Susten Pass and the St Gotthard Tunnel and back via the Mont Blanc Tunnel, Dunkerque to Lake Constance via the Rhineland, US I-70 Coast to Coast)
Significant Railway Journeys
NYC to Toronto via Amtrak, Alice Springs to Adelaide on Ghan, Moscow to Leningrad as it was overnight in Febuary !
Other Interests
Photography - bought my first SLR in 1972, History , Music (1350 Albums and climbing), Books (had to switch to ebooks when I ran out of shelf space)