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All,

I have seen some amazing things in my life and I know you have too, but on a trip to Mexico City we squeezed some time to go to the Anthropology Museum and after seeing THE Mayan Calendar I was left...speechless.

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It was HYUGE and I was stunned just looking at it. I left there with more questions than answers and was just in awe.

John from Texas

PS: Anything left you speechless?
 
Stonehenge (because of the shear scale of the stones, which I couldn’t imagine moving with modern technology) and the Parthenon (because when I first walked onto it I felt an inexplicable sense of rootedness, like this was the wellspring from which everything I know had come).
 
Western wall in Jerusalem and in Tanzania when our Jeep got stuck in the middle of a herd of elephants. When your safari guy is saying holy $hit and taking pictures too, you know it’s not a common thing!
 
First time I saw El Capitan at Yosemite, the view from Hitler's tea house at the Eagles Nest, King Tutankhamen's sarcophagus. Nice idea for a thread. Chris
 
Being present at the birth of my 3 children and assisting in the birth of 2 children while on duty in the FD. Those babies come out really slippery.:wink2: -- Al
 
Nov, 2016 I saw a meteor hit the atmosphere on my way home from work, it lasted 2-3 seconds, It looked like it landed 20 miles away
in the Delaware Bay, it was huge, I thought it would be all over the news, but nothing was reported.
Only to find out later from director of the Franklin Institute that the meteor shard landed in the ocean off Nags Head NC over 350 miles away.
Im still bit speechless.
Tim
 
It was at 9:34 AM on July 26th, 1971. I was in Florida at the Kennedy Space Center.

At the moment the roar of the engines of the Saturn V rockets shook my bones and teeth as I stood "speechless" in total awe.{eek3}
The Apollo 15 NASA space mission was on its way to the moon.

I have the Revell 1/96 scale Saturn Model kit still on display in my office!!

--- LaRRy
 
I thought I had felt speechless before, but now I know that I felt truly speechless when I saw my daughter and held her hand at the church entrance two weeks ago, and led her to her fiancé at the altar. Walking down the aisle as the father of that beautiful and happy bride surpassed anything I felt before, from the roar of a Merlin engine to the sound to the Berlin Philharmonic playing Beethoven´s fifth with everything in between...:wink2:
 
Also :

1959 I was 11 years old, we were in Kairo, arrived by night ...
My father waking me up early in the morning and calling me to come on the balcony
We were in the Menahouse Hotel, in front of me the Cheops, Kefren and Mykerinos pyramids
1 week later I was in Bunia in my uncle's farm we went to see Tutsi dancing, also he show me his 700 NitroExpress and fired with it ...
This is a 700Nitro ( not my uncle .. )
 
Sentaapua said:
I thought I had felt speechless before, but now I know that I felt truly speechless when I saw my daughter and held her hand at the church entrance two weeks ago, and led her to her fiancé at the altar. Walking down the aisle as the father of that beautiful and happy bride surpassed anything I felt before, from the roar of a Merlin engine to the sound to the Berlin Philharmonic playing Beethoven´s fifth with everything in between...:wink2:
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I had no idea your daughter was getting married! Congratulations my friend!
 
Seeing Paris, New Orleans and the Auroras Boreales at night at about 18,000' from the flight deck of a C-130. Fantastic light displays. I might mention the Scottish Highlands at 500' is also an impressive sight. Chris
 
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