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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!

Friday, October 11, 2013

Check Out Day

Time to leave the cabin and head back to  MO. We could hear a faint banjo diddy if you were real quiet on the back porch after dark. 

But first one last shot at the White River trout in the town of Cotter. Took a while but the fish finally decided to come out and play. We tried to be gentle and apologize for the harassment befor releasing them to fight another day. 

There is a spring that bubbles up out of the ground at the boat launch in town. 


This is the main auto bridge with the rail bridge in background. There are five equal sections in the whole bridge.

 

The next morning Rog fixed us a hardy breakfast. 

Here is Art and Rick enjoying a sausage on a stick wrapped in pancake. Dipped in syrup, yum. Two is about all you can handle. Then it was time to head out. Art had the distinction of being the only one selected for the full body pat down at the airport. 

Art, Rick and I made it to Denver but Tony is still being hassled by the airlines as I write. Will be until tomorrow morning. They wouldn't tag his bags all the way through to ANC so he gets to collect them and go through the whole process again in both SEA and ANC. Good luck Tony! I'll bet Kenai looks awfully good come Monday. 

Teri and I will start out for Boise/Redmond Tues. 

I assume the weather will be perfect.