It was August 1986; Tammy was nineteen and Jennifer was sixteen, Eva and I thought it could be the last summer vacation that Tammy would go with us on. She had just finished her first year in college and might have other plans in future summers. It had been a […]
Trips
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Jennifer, Kaylee, and Lauren had been living with us since August 1999 and we had been through some rough periods during those years. We all had adjusted to the new “normal” and we had found fun things to do or places to visit so that Kaylee and Lauren could have […]
In 1984, as the summer was approaching, I was thinking about a trip I had wanted to take the family on for several years. I had wanted to visit Yellowstone National Park. I knew that trip would require a lot of time and driving, but I did not know if […]
After Tammy was born, we bought a water softener for our house to make the water better for our baby. As a bonus, we were given a free three-day stay at a hotel in Miami Beach. We decided we would take Tammy on her first trip in May 1968 before […]
In January 1974; I started a new job at Gulf States Toyota where I would face new challenges and opportunities for growth. More details on that will be provided at another time or in my book. With my change in employment, our vacation trips for that year were limited to […]
It was August 2014; Melissa and Rachel had gotten accepted to attend a skeet and trap training class at the Olympic Training Facility in Colorado Springs. It was rare when two people in the same family to be accepted to one of these events. It was even rarer because they […]
It was June 1973; Tammy was 6 and Jennifer was 3 and we had heard about a new themed park that had opened the year before. Opryland USA was in Nashville Tennessee and was a music-themed park with rides and shows. We had never been to Nashville, so we were […]
It was July 1976; Tammy was nine and Jennifer was six and they did not remember very much about our trip to Colorado four years before except what they could see in the pictures we had taken. When we asked them where they wanted to go on our vacation trip, […]
As a young boy growing up, my Dad never took me fishing or hunting. Dad did not do either of those things, he worked all week to earn money to pay the bills and to put food on the table. On Saturdays, he would take Mom to the grocery store […]
It was June 1972, and we wanted to take our girls someplace special on a vacation trip. Tammy was five and Jennifer was two, so we felt they were old enough to enjoy going to Colorado. It would be the longest trip we had taken since Jennifer was born. Eva […]