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Here are some pictorial records of a portion of my life
when I was not heavily involved in sailing.
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Panama, 1974-1975 |
In 1974 I headed a team of programmers
in the development of a communications message switching system for
the U.S. Army. Our second installation of this system was at the
Corozal Army facility in the Panama Canal Zone. At this time I had
been leading this software development team for over three years working 60 -
70 hour weeks with almost no time off. The last year of this effort
had been spent almost entirely in Panama. At the completion of the
Corozal installation I was expected to take on another major software
development project. I determined that I was heading for a burn-out
and instead volunteered for the on-site support position in Panama
which we had been unable to fill up until then. This ended up being a
one year vacation with bonus pay and no income tax. The money I saved
by not paying taxes for two years covered the purchase of a new sailboat
when I returned to the states in January, 1976. |
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Okinawa,
1966-1967 |
I joined the US Air Force in the fall
of 1964, shortly after I graduated from Franklin & Marshall College.
The Air Force decided to make a meteorologist out of me and sent me to
Texas A&M in 1965 for another year of education. In 1966 I got my
first assignment as an Air Force weather forecaster at Naha Air Base on the
island of Okinawa. |
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Japan,
1966 |
I had a few opportunities to visit the main islands of
Japan while stationed on Okinawa. Unfortunately I have retained few of the
pictures I took on those trips. |
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Vietnam, 1967-1968 |
From Okinawa I volunteered for a tour
of duty in Vietnam. I was assigned to the Air Force Base at Tuy Hoa on
the coast in II Corps. |
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Hong Kong, 1968 |
While in Vietnam I took trips out of
country every chance I got. The single authorized trip was my Rest and
Recreation (R&R) in Hong Kong. |
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Canal du Nivernais, 1995 |
For a long time I had
wanted to visit Europe, especially France, but never seemed to get around to
it. In 1995, and later in 1998, friends organized barge trips on two
of the most popular canals in France and I tagged along. These barge
tours started the thinking that led me to plan the Atlantic Circle sailing
trip in 2004. |
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Canal du Midi, 1998 |
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