#2.7 At Nam Phu, Vientiane, Muong Lao, Tim Vistarini, March 8, 2015
Seasoned Explorer Tim Vistarini has brought the Moonhouse #2.7 on an expedition to Vientiane. Nam Phou, is a popular hang out in Vientiane and were it not for the poor lighting conditions in the tropical night in Vientiane we are sure we would have seen the house at the concert that was undoubtedly held the same night as the picture above was taken.
Thank you for sharing this excellent expedition Tim. We hope you had many laughs in Vientiane and fair winds for your coming expeditions!
#2.42 The Answer 20140602 Brussels, Belgium, Sweden, Emil Vinterhav
Brussels is the political capital of EU in many aspects. It sports many fine sights among which are Grand place surrounded by grand buildings of centuries past. Above you find Moonhouse #2.42 – The answer on a landfall in Grand Place. It did pass Manneken Pis but found mooring hard in the crowd.
In the absense of the little boy eternally relieveing himself you find #2.42 attempting to find its karma with the orange Buddha below.
Congratulations Emil on your successful expedition. We wish you fair winds on your coming adventures.
#2.42 The Answer 20140606 Brussels, Belgium, Emil Vinterhav
In the quest for reaching ever more extreme environments and setting out on ever more delicate expeditions there is an ongoing development of ever more capable Moonhouse models. The Moonhouse #X-series are the prototypes of tomorrow’s Moonhouse models. Before the X-series the prototype models were part of the nominal series. Examples are the plastic #2.18 and the negative #1.5. The #X.1 is the first of the moonhouses made from clay. The #X.1 is of similar size as the #3-series and has negative bouyancy in water, meaning that it will sink to the bottom. The #X.2 is similar to #X.1 as it is made from the same material but where the X.1 is comparable in size to the #3-series, the #X.2 is comparable in size to the #2-series. The #X.2 also features a a base magnet making it attachable to magnetic surfaces.
Any prototype has to be tested and Moonhouse #X.2 is no exception. On May 12 endavoured on its first expedition, with Emil Vinterhav to Konradsberg. See the results below.
#X.2 20140512 Konradsberg, Stockholm, Emil Vinterhav
#X.2 20140512 Konradsberg, Stockholm, Emil Vinterhav
#X.2 20140512 Konradsberg, Stockholm, Emil Vinterhav
#X.2 20140512 Konradsberg, Stockholm, Emil Vinterhav
#X.2 20140512 Konradsberg, Stockholm, Emil Vinterhav
#X.2 20140512 Konradsberg, Stockholm, Emil Vinterhav
#X.2 20140512 Konradsberg, Stockholm, Emil Vinterhav
#X.2 20140512 Konradsberg, Stockholm, Emil Vinterhav
#2.42 The Answer 20140522 Cologne, Germany, Emil Vinterhav
On May 22, 2015 Moonhouse #2.42 made landfall near the dome och Cologne lending some of its colour to the aged beauty of the grey building dating back to the middle ages. Or actually, the foundations for the dome were laid in 1248 and the building was completed in 1860. Construction spanning over more than 600 years warrants respect.
Congratualations on your successful expedition Emil, we wish you fair winds for your coming expeditions.
On its journeys across the great American continent what was bound to happen has transpired. Moonhouse #2.37 has followed in the foot steps of #2.19 when it and Hans Hallberg made landfall in Las Vegas on February 20. The keen eyed observer will recognize the scene below from a landfall made by #2.19.
#2.37 Las Vegas Hans Hallberg 20140220
Congratulations Hans Hallberg to your successful expedition. We wish your fair winds for your coming adventures!
The Expedition has reached the shores of the Great Lakes as Katharina Ayres brought Moonhouse #2.39 to Chicago. Chicago is known as ”The Windy City” but we can let you in on a secret; No matter how hard you huff, no matter how hard you puff, you will not blow this house down.
Congratualtions to the successful expedition Katharina. We wish you fair winds for your coming adventures!
#X.1 The Reef 20140102 Radja Ampat – Melissa’s Garden, Papua, Indonesien. Explorers Robin Lilja and Niclas Evestedt Fotocredit Niclas Evestedt
Today we are treated to a one of a kind, never seen before picture from the colourful land under water of a tropical coral reef. An earlier landfall on this expedition brought us to the well cared for nest of the Volgelkop Bower bird. On this landfall (waterfall(?)), on January 2, 2014, Robin Lilja and co-explorer Niclas Evestedt explored the coral reefs of Melissa’s Garden off the coast of the Raja Ampat Islands near Papua, Indonesia.
Thank you for the stunning picture* and congratulations, Robin and Niclas, to your very successful expedition. We wish you fair winds for your coming adventures.
*According to rumour ther are more stunningly beautiful underwater pictures like this which we hope to share soon….
#2.37 The Swedish Cottage in Central Park New York Hans Hallberg, The Swedish Cottage in Central Park New York, NY, USA, November 8, 2013.
Two days after landfall in Atlantic City, on November 8, 2013, Hans Hallberg and Moonhouse #2.37 made landfall in New York City. This time the Moonhouse or Moon Cottage, paid tribute to another cottage, namely the Swedish Cottage in Central Park, New York. The Swedish Cottage was build in Sweden 1875 and erected in Central Park in 1877. It is currently serving as home of the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre.
Congratulations Hans on the second landfall on your successful expedition (after landfall in Atlantic City) and fair winds for your coming adventures.
#2.37 The House Always Wins Hans Hallberg, Atlantic City, USA, November 6, 2013.
It is an old truth that ”the house always wins” and in this case we have a win-win situation when Hans Hallberg brought Moonhouse #2.37 to the Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City on November 6, 2013.
Congratulations Hans to your successful expedition and fair winds for your coming adventures.
#2.35 in the Indian Ocean Petra Vainionpää, Maldives New Years Eve 2013.
The Moonhouse really has a predisposition toward exotic beaches and the ocean. Perhaps this is in anticipation of and longing for an eternal existence on the shores of the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon.
Here the seasoned explorer Petra Vainionpää treats us to a magnificent scene from the Maldives in the Indian Ocean with Moonhouse #2.35 basking in sunlight with bungalows built in stilts in the back ground. (Wouldn’t we all have liked to be there to take the picture…)
Congratulations on your successful expedition Petra and fair winds for your coming adventures. (Petra was one of the first explorers and something tells me that the Maldives may not be the last landfall Moonhouse #2.35 makes with Petra. We certainly wish to continue to part-take in Petras exotic expeditions wherever they take here and the Moonhouse Expedition.
