[ajbrown]

Some of the stories in this thread are amazing. Mine are just in the game of golf and hardly fit into that category, but it is as close as I can come.

About 10 years ago I made two eagles in a row playing with the head pro from the back tees at Norton Country Club, MA. For folks that know the course it was holes 13 and 14. 13 is a risk reward 320 yard par 4 where I knocked in a shot of about 40 yards. 14 is a tight 524 yard par 5 where I got on in two and made a 15 footer.

I suspect this next one is not as unusual as I think, but from the back tees at Foxborough CC in MA, I made 4 brides in a row. For those that know the track, it was holes 9, 10, 11 and 12. The string started after missing a 3 footer on number 8 for birdie.

Now a days I feel lucky to make 4 pars in a row

[jebartle]

that I have rubbed elbows with all these fantastic accomplishments by all previous posts....

[graciegirl]

Sweetie played in a pro-am with Tom Weiskopf and beat him on the 18th hole!!

[Rag Bagger]

of retirement my wife and I were gypsies.

For five years, we cruised aboard our 38 ft. sailboat from the North Channel in Lake Huron to The Bahamas. We were snow birds on water. We headed North for summer then South for the winter. Most winters were spent in The Bahamas. We were true cruisers. We seldom stayed at marinas but anchored in some of the most beautiful natural harbors in North America. It was a life long dream that I had since a young kid after reading Hornblower books. Lucky for me my wife was just as adventuresome.
The second five years we lived on the road in an RV. After sailing all our life and spending most vacations sailing we decided it was time to see some other sights in the USA. I traveled internationally and domestically in business but that is different. Working is not conducive to exploring the areas you travel to. It started out as a planned 1 year trip. Heck it took us one year to travel from Kentucky to California via Florida. Obviously we really went slow. The adventure lasted five years. Most of the time we spent out West forming a big box from Vancouver to Tijuana and the Rocky Mountains. If we like a place we stayed for a few weeks or a month, no rush except to keep out of cold weather. Again we were snow birds and followed the warm weather. Learned lots of kewl stuff about our country and it's people.
Now we have started a third adventure. Life in TV. we moved here in 2009. Sharing half the year with our Ky. Home and TV.

[Zass38]

Senior officer present in Costa Rica as an Ensign in the Seabees on flood reclamation work at Mount Irazu.
Have worked on all seven continents
As above have jumped out of perfectly good airplanes at 12-15000 feet, just because some big Gunny promised to place a very large boot on my person! - Had fun?

[Skip2MySue]

Originally Posted by Hawkwind

In the hobby of ham radio talking to and getting a written confirmation that one has talked with every entity in the world as per the rules of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL for short). Currently there are 338 entities and by the rules this may include an uninhabited island off the Antarctica or a reef that me only be out of the water by a few feet or a country as large as Canada.

This DXCC award is known as #1 Honor Roll and I am currently one of only 1523 hams in the world to achieve this award.

Morning Hawkwind,
I'm the Plant Manager for Multi-Tech Industries(formerly Radio Switch Corp.) the Rotary Switch Manufacturing Company that keeps a lot of those Amps up and running. I recently designed a new switch to replace the inferior Rotary Switch used in the Kenwood TL-922 Amp. Received rave reviews. Also currently supply switches to Palstar, Emtron, Leitner, OM Power, QRO Tech and many fellow Ham's nationwide.
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[jaspal]

Originally Posted by Ohiogirl

I am almost at the end of my 4 day babysitting gig with 2 grandsons - 2 and 5 years old. How do people do this? How did we ever get thru it as young parents? How do grandparents manage to sometimes raise their own grandkids? Next time (assuming I recover) Ohioboy will be here to help, but alas, he's still working, so I came alone.

There's a reason little kids are cute . . .

I visited the Taj Mahal & spent 1 week in a house boat in Cashmere India

[Pturner]

I was appointed by our State legislators to chair a commission to draft a proposed charter for the merger of a city and county government.

[Pats2010]

I saw a real UFO.

[Talk Host]

Originally Posted by Pats2010

I saw a real UFO.

Do you have a picture?

[BogeyBoy]

Was on the Lassie show once. (Two scenes.)

[Pats2010]

Originally Posted by Talk Host

Do you have a picture?

I was only 16 years old and did not own a camera.

[duffysmom]

I ran the NYC marathon for my 46th birthday.

For my 48th birthday, backpacked into the Sierra Nevadas for 10 days with 6 other women carrying a 65lb backpack. Guided 5 days in and had to find our own way out. No fires for cooking, eating only what we carried. Saw bear tracks in morning around tent. Also spent 24 hours alone during the trip.

Had a hole in one.

For my 54th BD, married the finest man I ever met.

[logdog]

As a teenager, I worked on a ship delivering supplies to the Eskimos in Hudson's Bay. Fell off a barge in freezing waters with three layers of clothing and survived (I think).

[PinkNana]

I won a contest to create a "Jody" call for use by new recruits to the Army Armour Training Center at Ft. Knox, KY.