It was a big week last week, with two major accomplishments. Number one was the wedding for our daughter, Erin and my new son in law Alex. It was a great weekend affair, with lots of family and friends getting together. We had over 200 guests for the wedding and it went off without a hitch. Here are some of the photo’s for those of you who could not make it: So click on the picture and you can go…
So, I have been pretty busy getting ready for our Daughter’s wedding this coming weekend, we plan to take the RV down nearby and use it during the weekend. Going to be quite crazy with all the different family members from both side, seems in the olden days people liked to have large families so we are going to have a lot of Erin’s Aunts and Uncles coming to celebrate and a fair number of family friends (all really due…
Getting closer to retirement and now that I have hit the magic 99 days, it reminded me of the song “99 bottles of beer on the wall” you take one down and pass it around, 98 beer of bottles on the wall… this is a song we sang while we were growing up and camping as a family, on those long drives, but I don’t remember getting very far on the countdown before we switched to something else. By the…
So in all reality we are not really camping, more like Glamping, a glamorous way of camping in a fully enclosed luxurious house on wheels. That being said, what I have learned is the the bug and insects that would bother you when your were really camping outdoors in a tent, don’t really care that you have moved up to this “Glamping” mode. They are still here, waiting to chew the crap out of you nerveless. Last week it was…
So we plan to leave DC once I retire on 15 November 2016 and head south. So as a starting point we plan to be near my brother’s house in Jacksonville Florida for Thanksgiving as one port of call. The end of the deployment will be at my Mom’s and Sister’s place in Joshua Tree, California by my birthday in mid February. So what do we do in between, what port of calls do we want to make? What do…
So this is a big week for me, 40 years ago, in 1976, a young man just out of high school stepped off a bus in San Diego. Awoken the next morning to the sound of a metal trash can being thrown down a barracks passageway, a loud voice yakking at the top of his lungs to get our of the “rack” and hit the “deck”…. I joined the United States Navy wanting to learn about nuclear power and ride…