Chapter 1 (partial)

Having survived the bad landing due to lack of fuel in the Amazon, having my gold worries taken care of, and now facing a campaign in what will be Germany I felt good about things. If I could see the future I would have fled the scene.

I was still determined to visit all my territories. The only ones I hadn’t been to were those in the America’s. I would fly the normal route instead of something stupid like Dakar to Natal without navigation aids in place.

Before taking off there were some economic decisions that had to be made at home, We had all these wonderful tourism ideas to get people to open their pocketbooks and spend their silver and gold. We estimated that it would take five years or more to have the tourisms spots open.

We needed to up the silver velocity much quicker than that. Doug was the one who had the best idea. While the new construction was going on, we would advertise that people could get a special stamp on their tourism passport. The tourism passport was my contribution based on the US National parks system.

Those who had the early bird stamp would be recognized as the first official visitors to the attraction. The stamps would be of a local bird. It would give them nothing but bragging rights.

A visitor’s center would be opened at each site to register guests. It would have a model of the completed attractions hotels and other amenities. Guided tours would be given to natural attractions.

Cast in Time Book 7 "Duke of the West!" now available!

An Engineer finds himself in an Alternate reality, Cornwall, in the year 715 A.D. He awakens in the body of a young Baron. James Fletcher continues on his world conquest. He has realized that nothing short of world domination will allow him to live in peace.

No matter how he expands the new neighbors will covet his goods and lands. Now it is Italy that is being conquered while James is doing a grand tour of all his territories. With heavier than aircraft it is smooth sailing, well almost.

Earl E. (Ed) Nelson

I have always wanted to be an author. I had my first rejection slip in about 1965. Wish I had saved it. For many years the only writing I did was technical as pesky things like three children, nine grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren came along.

My technical writing was in the field of quality in several different journals. I worked in the field of quality for over fifty years, starting as a line inspector and ending up as a Vice-President of Quality and elected a Fellow of the American Society for Quality.

Then a wonderful thing happened. I lost my job and was out of work for almost eight months. To keep from going crazy I wrote. I posted my stories on an online site, and lo and behold people read them and said nice things. Fast forward about eight years and I am retired and writing for the fun of it.

A lot of what is in my stories is based on my life experiences, gasp! Give or take a lie or two that is. The one fortunate thing in my career is that I got to travel worldwide and have been to most of the locations I write about.

In my younger days, I tried hot air ballooning, sky diving, white water rafting, spelunking, and target shooting. I have collected stamps, drove in road rallies, lowly rated by the US Chess federation. I built a Kentucky long rifle and a dueling pistol. I am a licensed HAM radio operator. My hobby is having hobbies.

My true passion is reading. Trapped in a hotel room I would read the telephone book. The TV would not be turned on. I have averaged 200 books a year for the last sixty years. I knew those long flights were good for something.

BTW I was born in the middle of an air raid in England during World War II, the house next door was destroyed and our windows were blown out. That is probably the most interesting thing I have been involved with. Mum never forgave me. Happily married for 56 years I hope my wife doesn’t catch on to what a goof I am.