60+ year old thread.

Morning all....great to be home. Got in last night at 9:30 pm and went right to bed. Up this morning at 4:30 am...damn jet lag. Had a great vacation and had no problems. We were walking the same street in Istanbul on Monday where they had the riots. We never saw any of the problems in our travels. I'll post some pictures when I get them downloaded(wife must of taken a trillion or so) damn digital cameras. Now it's back to the daily grind.

 

Hi Ken

 

Morning all:
Welcome back Ken!! Good to hear that all went well, and that you had an enjoyable vac.

 

Hi Rat.... doing a little SCUBA, then went to Rota to see my son and his family. Looks like I'll be in Georgia for a while. I can feel the humidity coming off of this Georgia clay already. I sure miss the Gulf of Mexico!

How about you? Ready for summer?

 

Hi ,, Where is Rota ? Humidity is on us also till Sept. or so..Just did the A/C tune up ready for summer..

 

welcome back Ken. Sounds like a great vacation.

Afternoon all.... humidity starting here as well uuuuukkkk!!!!! thank goodness for air conditioning

 

Cheif, you talking about Rota Spain?
One of my buddys was stationed there on a sub tender. I might have gone there, but I put Holy Loch Scotland on my "dream sheet", he put Rota Spain. We both got our duty stations as requested.
Him being full blooded Portugese may have had something to do with his choice. He had alot of relation in Portugal, and his dad had been a former strongman, (like Charles Atlas), and former heavyweight champion of Portugal.
[Really showing age here; anyone remember "Charles Atlas"?] That's well before Lou and Arnold.

 

Carl:
Charles Atlas was an amazing man.

 

OK Tom!
Guess we're both showing our age!
OH YEA: It is an over 60 forum, we've been around awhile!

 

Got to see Rocky Marciano beat Archie Moore In NYC on Sept 21 1955.We were on our way to England for 3 years. The place was so smokey almost could not see the ring. My Dad talked about it the rest of his life as it was the greatest fight he had ever seen. It was Rocky's last fight...Rocky was world champ at the time and Archie put him on the mat early,,,The whole place was standing for 9 rounds till Rocky put Archie on the mat for the count in round 9....I was 6 years old at the time but man was that a fight...

 

Hi Chief, another diver on this thread...the missus and I go to the Caymans in Sept. for our annual dive vacation. Love the hell outta diving.. Grand daughter(11 years old) and daughter-in-law getting certs in July and going down with us. Scratch diving with a grand kid off the bucket list. Where'd you dive?

 

Good to be home. Everything was good including the hot air ballooning in Cappadocia. The place looks like Bedrock where the Flintstones lived. Will post more pics when they are all down loaded.

 

you weren't kidding about the Flintstones... where was that?

 

Nice pics Ken. Looks like another great vacation.

 

Turkey

 

This was in Cappadocia Turkey near the town of Goreme. Thanks for the map Jim.

 

Nice pic's Ken...Our friends from Lake city were just in France, Austria & Germany for 3 weeks. They only liked Austria But said everything cost to much over there. All the trips they take now will be in the USA..

 

So much to see here in Merica. I think next year may be a Pacific Coast Highway trip, a trip to the Grand Canyon, or back to Yellowstone. Only time and what the son and wife want will tell.

 

Yep ,,Thats it for us now. Next winter will be Yellowstone ,Black hills trip fly in rent a car take time to look around no time frame anywhere . Get back in the air & come home when we have seen everything we want to see..

 

Three years ago we flew into Bozeman and rented a car. Got a free upgrade to a Caddy. Made the trip quite enjoyable considering we put close to 2K miles on the Caddy.

You will like the Wild Bill Cody Museum. The firearms are most impressive.

The travel through the Badlands and Black Hills was very scenic and worthwhile. Try to take in Mt. Rushmore if you can.