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1964: after high school life begins. Asked to consider not returning to OSU after the first year. 1966 drafted; grunt, door gunner, HU1 pilot. Out in Dec '70. 1972 married, joined fire dept and bought first house over a 6 month span. 1980 moved family (which now consisted of wife Teri, daughter Amy and son Ryan) to CO. 1990 moved all to bush Alaska to work for the dark side (the FAA). Started Blog to keep family and friends up on our whereabouts. Retired in March 2010. In Feb 2012 sold house in Alaska. By May had bought in Redmond and completed the move. Still nesting in Redmond and loving it!

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Back to the North (Florida, that is)

Tony stopped in for three days during his increasingly longer winter trips to the warm side.
 This is some of the less expensive homes that link to the Inter Coastal Waterway.  Cheaper because you have to pass under a bridge with 6' vertical clearance to get to the Waterway.  Off to the left there is a RV park that we are considering for next year.
We got a bike ride and shark tooth hunt in on the first day.

This is one seagoing version of AAA around here.  I'm told they will even bring you gas should you run out.  How about beer?

Then we went fishing with Roger in his boat the next day.  No pictures of the fishing but Tony did get a neat video of a bald eagle snatching up a small sea trout that we had thrown back.  We also met a porpoise that was picking off the little ones that we were releasing.  It didn't hurt that we were throwing them right in front of his nose.

He left yesterday for some more visiting with his siblings before he goes back to beautiful downtown Soldotna.

We leave for Tallahassee tomorrow.  They've been about 10 degrees cooler up there.  Sounds good to me.  All reports from the last frontier indicate that it's a good year to snowbird.

Hang in there!