[manaboutown]

I grew up two very short blocks from Rte 66 where it passed through my town in New Mexico. My father managed a grocery store on Rte. 66 when we first moved there from New Jersey. We regularly took roadtrips on 66 to SoCal and a couple of times took it east on the way to Maryland. My father had been a traveling salesman so he taught me a lot about two lane highway driving, some of it on 66. I even have a Nelson Riddle 33 rpm album with the theme song. As I heard it the actors wanted to drive a Ferrari since they felt a Corvette was not exotic enough. Of course they lived in Southern California and did not understand how middle America could consider a Corvette exotic.

Unfilled dreams: My life has zigged and zagged in so many ways at so many times other than missing out on becoming an astronaut nothing much comes to mind. Since I deferred traveling the world to have and raise a small family I have been traveling internationally for the last 15 years or so which has always been a dream of mine. So long as my health, my eyes and ears and my feet and legs hold up I will continue to do so.