Random Memories and Advice

Each and Every One of these has a Story behind Them. Ask at your own Risk:

When arriving at the hospital 20 minutes before birth time, the Dad need to run to the linen closet for green jeans, and the Mom gets no drugs.

When Darth Vader visits a new Mom in the hospital, and doesn’t say a word, it causes a stir among the nurses.

Sometimes you old CB ‘Handle’ sticks around a long time.

Almost every where you go, in a crowd there is at least one ‘Bob’.

E-6 Prowlers, when on night operations training, are pretty noisy when you are camping at Deception Pass State Park.

There are sandbars a surprising distance off Everett Bay.

There are odd people living in Chamault Oregon. It’s best to not have to buy gas there at 3 AM.

Be careful when bailing a white water river into the neighboring raft, you could fall in. Snow melt fed rivers are cold, even in June.

Beware if you volunteer at MGM/Disney, you could get a pie in your face. Bees like pie we’ve also discovered.

Bourbon Street, New Orleans,  is a good place to walk arm in arm with your wife. It cuts down (a little) on hawker women pulling you into their shops, and allows her to guard your wallet at the same time!

By chance we enjoyed a late night movie shoot downtown in Seattle. The movie was forgettable.

Submarines are interesting tours, once you get beyond the closed in feeling. And just when you think you’ve seen them all, there is another one to climb through.

A long walk through a train tunnel is a unique way to cool down on a hot day.

If there is any earthquake worth mentioning, Cliff will be out of town.

It is an odd experience to swim outdoors in hot spring heated water in a snow shower in Utah.

There is a lot of variation in the Breakfast part of a Bed & Breakfast.

Watching a deaf group’s dance in a hotel is interesting, if a bit loud.

There is no pager or cell service in Bar Harbor Maine.

First Melt Day at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks features shorts, tee-shirts, a long day as well as snow.

Avoid accidentally leaving the country in a rental car.

Canoeing is fun at the Arboretum and Lake Louise.

A total solar eclipse is an event worth taking the time and trouble to see.

A little Atari computer, bought at Sears changed our life.

Never buy Solano County fair Cinnamon rolls, or Hot Dogs. You’ve been warned.

Visiting the Seattle Hump yard requires timing. We’ll get that timing right real soon now.

Elephants do sneeze. Elephants don’t have hankies. Kids don’t like to be the substitute hanky for elephants.

Sometimes when you take a ferry ride to have time together, you get a free violin concert as a bonus.

Oldies bands perform at the Puyallup fair. Some kids get unsettled when the parents enjoy the music too much.

A car time, speed, distance rally is an odd first date, but it’s been the start of a fantastic life. Oh, don’t forget to not pass backwards facing Stop signs.

When you take the road less traveled, watch out for cows.

Driving to Portland, for Ice Cream or a Movie may be seen as odd behavior, but it's really not.

When you have an hour to kill, order a milk shake in Kentucky.

Tent camping in November at Icicle creek IS as cold as it sounds.

The Potato festival at Quincy was more interesting then you might think.

Liberty Ships are not as scary to tour as submarines, but just about as interesting.

It’s surprising what power a sticky note has when touring an Army Base.

It’s awesome when lightning splits and hits the road just ahead of you on both sides of the road.

Once on a skiing weekend, one partner was wondering if his body would be found after accidentally going down a double diamond slope. At the same time the other partner was sick with a wet St. Bernard.

There is no grass to pitch a tent at Craters of the Moon National Monument.