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,…
HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN-SHE’S OFF TO SCHOOL
It finally came time, Deysi’s pride and joy got her butt sent to school. It was a happy time for all except her Mom. She was frantic. She had spent the last 5-1/2 years with her girl 24/7’s 365 days…
RAMBLING AROUND IN MY MIND IN SAN FRANSISCO
Today I am going to let my mind wander and recall random thoughts of San Fransisco and the fun times we had there. Each one of these musings could easily become a full on story or at least qualify as…
HOW WILL IT EVER RETURN TO NORMAL AFTER THIS
I have had a significant amount of time on my hands to think about, and to try and resolve the issue of returning life to normal after the passing of the Coronavirus (or at least the downturn in new infections…
IMAGES IN AND AROUND SAN FRANSISCO 1984 AND 1985
I have not overlooked putting images into my posts for this period of our journey. The problem is that we had been in Japan and I had bought a state of the art Video recorder there. It became an obsession…
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,…
SAN FRANSISCO & THE RIDE-SHARE FROM HELL
Another of my earliest memories of life in San Fransisco, was of the commute from across the Bay, through the countryside, into Oakland and then under the Bay Bridge to San Fransisco. From Concord, where we decided to live, it…
PEOPLE SHOULDN’T LIVE WHERE PALM TREES DON’T GROW
The title to this memory comes out of the mouth of a wise old hillbilly that I met on arrival at work in San Fransisco. On hearing where I was from and where I had been born and raised, he…
SAN FRANSISCO AT LAST – THE GREAT EARTH MOVING EPISODE
Finally we have arrived in San Fransisco and are waiting our goods from Canada. Everything is going well and I’m settling into a new job, new town, new country and more travels. Now before I jump into our life and…
OK THE FUN IS OVER, BACK HOME AND WHERE TO NEXT
Well we have now had our break between assignments, spent our money, seen everyone in Peru and now its time to go to work. We spend the next 3-4 months in Edmonton, and after waiting for the new assignment to…
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