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Except that the Hong Kong route doesn't go through Seattle, and the very first itty-bitty baby Barack sighting was in Seattle.

If you can find a copy of the Susan Blake video (most have been "disappeared") She clearly states that she showed Stanley Ann how to change a diaper.

How long does it take a new mom to learn that particular art?

Think about that. What was a days (or perhaps weeks?) old baby doing 2500 miles away from home? What new mom would subject her infant and herself to such a hasty journey unnecessarily?

What necessity drove that trip?

[El Gato]

Except that the Hong Kong route doesn't go through Seattle, and the very first itty-bitty baby Barack sighting was in Seattle.

I think we were discussing the 1959 flight of BHO Sr, from Kenya to Hawaii. Apparently Senior didn't fly with the rest of the group, 81 of whom flew altogether on a Britannia aircraft into the US East Coast.

If you were going to Seattle from Mombasa, the great circle route goes over Greece, the tip of the Scandinavian peninsula, Greenland, just north of Hudson's bay and on into Seattle, or maybe Vancouver. Actual routes likely went something like Kenya, Egypt, England, Nova Scotia and on into Vancouver.