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Are we going to hit the pier? OH, No.... Thud!! Oh my!! 19 y
Many trips do not turn out like we plan them.... So pay attention so you won't end up doing something you had wished you hadn't...
Picking up where I left off, Key West Naval Station, DESRON 601, Fleet Sonar School Training.... Well life was nice in those days, I just was not smart enough to know better.... We worked four days a week, M thru R, F was a maintenance day and we were off every weekend except for the Duty Section.. { On an active duty naval vessel there is always someone on watch 7 X 24 } The weather was great, we could fish and catch Tarpon right off the sea wall, diving in the clear warm water was superberb... There were plenty of fine looking females, in their next to nothing dress code, and lif ... read more Onward we go thru this life.... To what ever is our calling.. 19 y
Cuba, Jamaica, and Gitmo.... Live firing of 5 inch guns; some fun and unusual places... Even got to be on some movie sets... Fun for all
Lets get back to the road of life.... mainly my life because it is the one I am living....
We had left off in Key West during my Navy years.... { BTW for those ladies who wanted to know; the Navy issued us white boxers as standard issue undies... but we called them skivies...} A lot of stuff went down in those years, though at the time I did not realize it.... We were sent to Gitmo Cuba, for training after spending those wonderful cold months in the state of RI... For those of you that do not know Gitmo is the east coast training base for shipboa ... read more Rules of the road.. The water road!! 19 y
Many of the rules in life are there to help you; but you do have to pay attention...
The rules of the road; apply to many aspects of our lives... So as we travel thru life’s pathway we must learn to watch and listen for the signs of life... There are even rules of the road, for ships and planes.... But there are not any stop, signs or lane markers out there; just the "Rules of the road" [ Ya, I don’t know why they call them; the rules of the road, when no one has ever seen any intersections, or super hi ways out on the ocean blue..]
So once we become aware of what we are suppose to do, just like in life, things will go much bett ... read more This road of life is mine, or at least I thought it was... 19 y
My Navy years never a dull moment, very exciting times....
Well folks we left off some time in my Navy years... Exciting times never a dull moment as they say... The first part of the time I spent in was on a Destroyer Escort stationed out of Key West, FL.... Before it became one of the "Gay Hangouts" of the world...
As I had said we were there to train; Fleet Sonar School... M Thru R {4 days a week} the Haze Gray Navy buses would pull up on the pier, and we would take on our students for the day... They were from many different countries, as well as the USA... We had Dutch, Viet Names ... read more This Road of Life is really my pathway thru it.... 19 y
What happens on your road in life, and how you learn to handle it is what really counts.... DUH, so pay attention...
As I look back on what has been written in this blog, there are some gaps... I have tried to keep it chronological, but have missed a few neat items... So we will visit those this time... On the Road of life...
It was during my high school years, that my Independence opened up and I became more myself... Since I turned 16 {Birthday is 11 January; for those who want to send something :-)} in the second semester of the sophomore year, I had a car... I had taken Drivers Ed first semester[This is a hot button with me, since 99% of HS students are going to ... read more The best ride is sometimes down the side road... 19 y
Learned to ride the waves, and found every body gets sea sick...
Where we have gone and what we have done. The road of life goes many ways, but it is only the path we take that matters. To each his / her own...
We have discussed up though my high school years, brief though is was. Now lets go no the the vastly exciting years before the mast. {another nautical term, meaning sailing the oceans blue.} Well left for Basic training on Mother”s Day, actually it was the first time to ever fly a commercial plane... [Actually because one of our next door neighbors had a Beech craft Bonanza Aircraft, I learned to fly... Yes at age 12 pilot a plane. ... read more The road of life sometimes runs up hill are we really up to it? 19 y
Road of life leads to where ever; but that is not the real worry... As life is an adventure to be lived..
What you see, is not always the answer you need..... And the answer you need is not always the one you wanted... Most people want too much, and need little... So the key here is to get your life in order, remember every thing you want is not always good for you..... But then GOD never promised us a rose garden...
I will reflect on some different aspects of my life on the road of life.... Some of which were cool and exciting others were just dumb and dangerious... But either way it leads to what and where I have been... Some review ... read more Life is what we make it or should we say what it makes of us... 19 y
Life is a trip, but you do have to keep your eyes open and listen for sirens..... At least once in a while!!
Friends the road of life is certainly difficult but totally necessary, we must learn to cope....
There have been many unusual happenings in my life and / or else that have been related to me by highly reliable source(s).. So review past blog chapters and stay tuned for some of the most wonderful experiences you have ever heard...
Dropping back to my high school years, after i got my first car[ a ’51 DeStoto] ya some of you will say what was that??? Well i said the same thing when my step father dropped on me on rainy night... It did not la ... read more 10) On the road again.... or so we think .... 19 y
What happens does not always follow the script, but then only Hollywood and novels have a script, life does not.....
Well it is over due the continued saga of my travels... Some people have said did this really happen to you?? The answer is of course, you don’t think I could just make this up do you??? The truth will be told, and I must not lie...
We left off as best I can remember, Jr. High School; a wonderful time if I had known then what I know now... Oh well so it goes, I had as you remember, moved around quite a lot during my youngest years.... Born in GA, then AL, then GA, FL, GA, FL, GA and finally in the fifth grade ST Pete FL..... ... read more 9) The trail of tears... an historical note!! 19 y
Life is a pathway which crosses, with many others... We should learn to be better neighbors....
Life seems to endless, yet it is finite and made up of all these billions of the different segments of people... Many are not known to most of us, yet they have left just as much of "foot print" on the grand fabric of life, as any celebrated hero.... In fact most hero’s are not even recognized by the world in general....
We want to try to tie together some of these invisible people... We don’t mean ghost, or spirits, rather real life flesh and blood persons.... Lets look at some different people....
There have been many trai ... read more 8) Here we go again, down the pathway of life... 19 y
The road less traveled is often the best route to success..
Exactly what we see on the pathway of life depends on the route we take..... What most people don’t understand is that we decide where we are going, thru the will of Almighty GOD..... How you might ask?? Free agency is the answer.....
For those of you that do not know about free agency, it is what GOD gives every human..... We decide what we will do... Therefore take responsibility for your actions.. You can do with your life what you want... We are talking about decision making here folks.... Not pie in the s ... read more 7) Many times on the road of life, we become confused... 19 y
Confusion is over come by purpose... Seek your purpose in life, as you travel your pathway(s)...
Life is a pathway, which we enter one by one as we are born... Looking down the pathways at first we see everybody that is alive in front of us... But as we grow older, and travel down this pathway we are on there are fewer people ahead of us..
Of course this will continue until we make it to the end of our pathway in life... What we should have done is connected with all those who were placed in / on our pathway.... GOD has placed each and everyone there for a purpose... Our duty in life is to interact with these people, and learn how we can best serve them.... ... read more 6) God knows where we are going isn't too bad that we don't just stop and ask HIM! 19 y
Travel opens the world, come see what you may have missed??
Trips are necessary, this weekend, some of us moved, like a friend of mine, some of us drove and worked, like myself, and some just sat around the pool... {not sure who they were}
The whole idea of this blog is to get people to come to know and understand others thru the media of travel(s)..... After having put in hundreds of thousands of windshield miles, millions of air miles, over 50,thousand nautical miles, and many more on bike/walking miles we will continue to discuss the wonderful events that I have seen or had been in close proximity to.... [By the way, o ... read more 4) If you do not know where you are going, you will surely get there... 19 y
You many times never really know how hard your guardian angel has to work..
Lets look at some things from my pathway of life...
" One thing I learned about life is ; if you do not know where you are going yu will surely get there!! a True-ism
I guess you figured out that I am over the half century mark... But that does not change the truth.... So where can we start, oh ya, down in south Fla. back in the late fiftys.... 1950s for the rest of you folks..... We will talk a bout some road warrior tales on my bike... Well my younger brother and I, started using our ... read more 3) The road to where or am I lost??? 19 y
We travel, learn, and experience life, as road warriors.. It is the things we see that lead to our life of experience...
Each great journey starts with one small step.... Old Chinese proverb
Well we had started on the first entry w. Mrs "O" Studebaker trip from south GA to St Pete Fla.... Lets jump up a few years to when i was approaching adolescence, in the sixth grade.... We had not had a car since they came and got the Ford back in GA, that DAD, have not payed for.... Well now Mom had divorced him when i was 10, one of the best things in years. There we were living in a two bedroom rental house with one of mother’s sister Aunt Helen an ... read more 2) On the road again.... we think... 19 y
Life offers those who venture out many opportunties.... This will be a fun ride, come on along...
What is the best road experience of all??? Well there are so many, lets think....
Could it be the time the police surrounded and broke in my motel room at mid nite in up state New York, or maybe it was the time the Secret Service classified me as a potential Presidential Assassin in Connecticut, maybe it was when my rental car caught fire in Portsmouth VA.... Another could be the time we sank a yacht in North Atlantic while in Navy, or could be the we drove into a ditch in south Fla..... There are plenty of fires, shooting, wrecks, and other dangerous h ... read more 1) Where are we going any way??? 19 y
Tales of trips, and where I have been over the years. Then there is how did I get the Name " Kerminator? " Well, it was some years back when the Terminator movie was out! My first name Kermit; so when My youngest was 15; thus so when they Saw the movie - They said you are the Kerminator, and then it stuck and here I am world famous!! Here I am!
The whole thing started when i was a little boy, my Grandmother Mrs ”O” we called her, came to take me to Fla...
In a Studebaker car, which was about 500 miles, but what did i know just going on 6 ...
Well we spent the most time wondering thru south GA, this was before the Interstate System, [which was built for the military use done ya know] was built so it was two lane, with dirt roads and wooden bridges.....
The whole thing took a week i thought, in reality it was about twelve hours.... The worst part i thought was the rickety wooden bridge, where each car one at a time single ... read more |