Monday evening found our caravan pulling into Shantelle’s in Acworth, GA, just northwest of Atlanta. We aren’t used to long solo drives after two months of dual across the country. The resulting frequent stops and detours made us a little late but we had it figured out by today when we drove down to Tallahassee. We stopped at an RV dealer in Jonesboro to check out one we are interested in an had no problems on into Tallahassee. Here’s a link to one on the Denver dealer’s web site.
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A word about Shantelle with apologies to her in advance for embarrassing her.
I am proud of my kids. They have both grown up to be adults I am proud and thankful to know. But Shantelle is the only young person (without any of my genes) I had given advice to that actually followed it. She was fresh out of high school, not too thrilled with college or satisfied with building rail road tie retaining walls for me on my construction sites. So, I suggested that she consider Army Warrant Officer Flight School. The only place where you can walk in off the street and test your way into a guaranteed slot in flight school without a degree (this was in the ‘80s but I believe a similar path is still possible today).
To say that she took the ball and ran with it would be a rather large understatement. She flew for 12 years on active duty all over he world, including Desert Storm, and earned a retirement finishing in the Guard as a W4. Along the way she married Phillip (another Army helicopter pilot) and they have three incredible boys. She managed to beat cancer along the way too. Today she is a hockey, baseball and lacrosse mom among a few other pursuits. I look forward to following the boys accomplishments. And maybe someday actually meting Phillip (we missed him this time and it was the first time we’d seen her in over 20 years). When I finally write my memoirs, she’ll get a chapter or two.
I could go on (as you all too well know) but I must apologize, no pictures. Things were a little hectic and it was raining most of the time we were there. When it stopped we were a little antsy to get our last leg done.
Time now to get busy on Amy’s list (not even a little bit like Angie’s List, except maybe in length) and finish acquiring our RV set up. I’ll try to keep up the chatter in the meantime. See you down the road.
Stay safe!
About Me
- Troy
- 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!
