WE HAVE A HOUSE! NOW GET DOWN AND STAY THERE UNTIL THE SHOOTIN’ STOPS
A part of our package to relocate to South Africa, was the provision of an allowance, for the cost of a fully furnished rental home. The catch was that we had to find the suitable home. Once again, as described…
AN ADVENTURE IN HOUSE HUNTING JOHANNESBURG 1988
As part of our package to relocate to South Africa, we were provided a company vehicle, an allowance for the cost of house rental, assistance finding a home and a great lump sum allowance for purchasing everything we would need.…
MATING CALL OF THE VOLKSWAGEN JOHANNESBURG 1988
Our arrival in South Africa was not uneventful. Even a laid back group such as us could find plenty of opportunities for things to go sideways, to laugh at, to learn from or to remember for all time. It was…
GRAND CANYON IN VIDEO – ABUELITO AND ABUELITA 1987
I had to add this video of a trip we took Deysi’s dad and step mother on in January 1987. We left Ogden Utah on January 23rd 1987 and drove down to the Grand Canyon and then onto Las Vegas…
A BUSINESS LESSON AND ITS APPLICATION UTAH 1986
While in Utah I spent my time overseeing the operation of a pipe fabrication facility in Clearfield, UT. This was an existing business, contracted by us to build pipe assemblies, for the work we were doing at the Kennecott Mine.…
THE CAR RIDE FROM HELL OR THE 20 HOUR LE MANS
This next little story ranks right up there with some of the most idiotic moves I have ever made (and there were lots to choose from). It involved a decision we had made regarding two of my older children. The…
A STORY OF MY DRIVE ACROSS THE SALT FLATS
This story starts quite innocently in Ogden, Utah on a Sunday in early spring 1986. I was having a peaceful day when Deysi decides to make a personal attack on me and my character, for no reason, and after I…
SAN FRANSISCO AND THE NEW AWAKENING
By this time in our travels, I consider myself a well travelled, seasoned veteran of the world. In my mind we had been a lot of places and seen a lot of things. But in reality I was still a…
MOM AND DAD DO SAN FRANSISCO 1985
A big occasion for us was a visit from my mom and dad in California. Mom had MS and rode a wheelchair for many years. My dad was a tough old bronco busting cowboy, about as hard as they come,…
A CANADIAN & THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE TRAUMA
This story is a mix of times and places, it starts in Peru in the late 70’s and ends in San Fransisco in the fall of 1984. It wasn’t until I started to think of my time in San Fransisco,…
