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Hi everyone! I'm checking in after a L-O-N-G absence.
Well I am now officially retired. Officer Clark transitioned into "semi-retirement" last September, but since the beginning of this summer I am now fully retired.
I bought a new car ... a Hyundai. I took a couple of road trips in my new car. With a buddy I took a few weeks driving down south to Miami via Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah, and St. Augustine. On the way back we went a different way: through northern Georgia, the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Shenandoah, etc. It was a great trip. My buddy, an attorney who also just retired this year, was something of a nag though (a motorcyclist, he always wanted me to go faster even though I was exceeding the speed limit).
Congratulations on being fully retired! That route through Virginia was my favorite to drive with the mountains and scenery. Nice trip to break in a car!
I just got back from another road trip ... a short 5 day one through central and southwestern Pennsylvania. It had a theme: tragedy and triumph: Gettysburg battlefield, Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, and the Flood Museum in Johnstown.
A neighbor of mine was a passenger on Flight 93, an elderly woman named Hilda. She was the oldest passenger on that ill fated flight. She lived across the street from me in Budd Lake, New Jersey.
Johnstown is a very historic little city in southwestern PA; about 65 miles east of Pittsburgh. It was prone to flooding because of it's location at the confluence of two rivers in a deep valley. Like the Great Chicago Fire and the San Francisco Earthquake, the Great Johnstown Flood of 1889 is one of the greatest natural disasters in US history.
I just got back from another road trip ... a short 5 day one through central and southwestern Pennsylvania. It had a theme: tragedy and triumph: Gettysburg battlefield, Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, and the Flood Museum in Johnstown.
A neighbor of mine was a passenger on Flight 93, an elderly woman named Hilda. She was the oldest passenger on that ill fated flight. She lived across the street from me in Budd Lake, New Jersey.
Johnstown is a very historic little city in southwestern PA; about 65 miles east of Pittsburgh. It was prone to flooding because of it's location at the confluence of two rivers in a deep valley. Like the Great Chicago Fire and the San Francisco Earthquake, the Great Johnstown Flood of 1889 is one of the greatest natural disasters in US history.
I've always be fascinated with Gettysburg. First visit of many was in the early 60s when I begged my parents to stop on a trip from Florida to New York state. Luckily, my wife is a good sport about with my interest in the Civil War. Last time there was about 6 years ago for three days. Hired a guide for one afternoon and it was really great to learn some new detailed information about the events on the first day. Hoping to make it back again sometime soon.
You mentioned your trip up the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Shenandoah Valley, another favorite spot of ours. When we left Gettysburg, we came on down through Bull Run and Fredericksburg/Spotsylvania battlefields and then to a farmhouse that I had rented for a week near Harrisonburg in the Valley. Spent the whole week just poking around the area. It was the last of October and the scenery was just gorgeous.
Hi everyone! I'm checking in after a L-O-N-G absence.
Well I am now officially retired. Officer Clark transitioned into "semi-retirement" last September, but since the beginning of this summer I am now fully retired.
I bought a new car ... a Hyundai. I took a couple of road trips in my new car. With a buddy I took a few weeks driving down south to Miami via Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah, and St. Augustine. On the way back we went a different way: through northern Georgia, the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Shenandoah, etc. It was a great trip. My buddy, an attorney who also just retired this year, was something of a nag though (a motorcyclist, he always wanted me to go faster even though I was exceeding the speed limit).
The comeback a motorcyclist should recognize is, "Ride your OWN ride!"
Well we had to go to 13,000 feet elevation to play in it. I'll send some and an oxygen tank!
That reminds me of when we were in Hawaii and went to the top of Mauna Kea at 13,000 ft +. Breakfast was on the lanai overlooking the ocean; at sunset we were in parkas and gloves, throwing snowballs at each other. Quite an experience
By the way, I'm really glad to see the difference in your situation from a couple of months ago. I was beginning to think that you were going to be in that other place for a long, long time. You sound so much happier with the change!
SOOOOOOOOOO, this morning walked down to the local café with the doggie, sat outside with my coffee and pecan sticky bun thing, light sprinkles, cool breeze. Some other folks sitting around. Local cowboy walks up to get coffee, now he looks like he just stepped out of a Roy Rogers tv set, complete with western belt holster and a very nice Colt 1873 .45 revolver on his side that's been in his family for generations.
ANYWAY....a lady yelled "he's got a GUN!" I looked at her and said, lady everyone here has a gun, you just can't see them. Bob (yeah Cowboy Bob, I know), is a rancher. Everyone else just shook their heads and chuckled. She got in her Audi with, well license plates from a state west of here, and left.
Today's entertainment. I'm going fishing.
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