I CAN’T LEAVE WITHOUT ONE LAST LOVE STORY FROM THE ANDES – 1979
Just as I was preparing to move on, from reminiscing of the good old days in Peru. I read a comment from ol’ Bubbaloo which caught my eye. It stirred up a memory from deep inside the cobwebs that now…
RON DISCOVERS THE SMELLS OF JAPAN AND OFFERS CRITIQUE – 1983
And once again, while searching my mind for inspiration, I unearth a fond memory of our time in Japan. This one of our daughter Ron, who was now 4 years old and as full of life as anyone ever born.…
A FRIEND AND STRANGE GUY – PERU 1978
Once more my mind drifts back to my early days in Peru. And to the memory of a character I met and bonded with soon after my arrival in the Andes. I am not quite sure why my memory keeps…
UNCLE J’S FAMOUS HALF GAINOR AND BACK LAYOUT DIVE
Always on our assignments around the world, one of our favourite times was of receiving visits from friends and family. The girls especially loved these times, because of the major dose of “spoiling” soon to be heaped on them. This…
EARLY MEMORIES FROM WALLINGFORD, PA. 1992
We had arrived in Pennsylvania in January 1992 and quickly got into the rhythm of a new place. Deysi immediately had the girls enrolled in schools and they, in turn, immediately started scouting out new friends. Relocation for the three…
ON THE ROAD AGAIN, THIS TIME PHILADELPHIA 1992
I departed for Philadelphia right at the end of 1991 and landed smack in the middle of another project. Again with my employer of many years. Basically since our days in Edmonton in the early 1980’s (with a small break…
WHERE TO NEXT? WE ARE READY TO MOVE ON DEC. 1991
As I said in my last post from Kuwait, I had escaped and was now back in Calgary. The time was late December 1991. From here I will continue my chronology of events in our life, as I now remember…
OTHER RAMBLING MEMORIES OF KUWAIT, OR WERE THEY JUST DREAMS?
As I prepare to leave Kuwait and continue on with my memories of our travel and adventures, I am going to leave you with some ramblings of my feeble mind. I was about to pass over some of these “memories”,…
A TURKEY SHOOT IN KUWAIT – 1991
As I mentioned earlier the group I was assigned to was in charge of rebuilding and restarting the “gathering centres” and “tank farms”. And this post is of a memory of my time spent working on these gathering centres. These…
BEING BEAT WITH THE JAWBONE OF AN ASS – Q8 1991
Some of my most vivid memories are of things that are now pretty mundane and of little consequence, however, at the time they were stuck solidly in my mind and have remained there until this day. These are short snips…
