Adventures not realized . . . Life got in the Way

Adventures not realized . . . Life got in the Way

In high school and beyond there were many more adventures planned and others that I wanted to write about but did not have a chance to put them down.  One was motorcycles, as we both loved them in our youth and with another friend David rode them together many times over the several years before I left for the Army. 

There was the weekend getaway to Panama City Beach, Florida which turned into a several month odyssey trip all the way to the west coast.  Conversations went like this; “We have never been to Mobile and there is the USS Alabama battleship in port, let’s go see it.”  Then the next day it was . . . “Never been to New Orleans what do you think?”  It went on and on till that trip ended.  I remember getting to California that first time and seeing the sky turn brownish in color and looking like it was going to rain.  After a couple days and as we approached Los Angeles we stopped for gas and finally asked someone when it was going to rain?  They laughed and told us that it was smog.  “The sky is brownish all the time.”  It was the first time we had seen anything like it.  There were many mountains crossed, a couple of deserts, and rivers galore and we explored them all.  The majesty of the American landscape has remained with me to this day.

We both loved flying and when I was a corporate pilot, Johnny and I always talked of flying together.  His airplane was at Stone Mountain and mine were at DeKalb Peachtree airports but with work schedules and family life we never had the chance to fly in the same plane together or formation fly.  We talked about it at every family gathering over the years but it never materialized.  I then moved to Alaska for almost twenty years and it became a non-realized adventure.

Driving US 1 all the way from Key West Florida to the Canadian border was another unrealized adventure for us.


Johnny, I hope these recollections of our past will bring back memories of our youth and great times gone by. 

For my blogger friends I hope you enjoyed these writings and were able to share in our travels, great friendship and wonderful times together.  As we’ve gotten older in our lives these are the important things, those moments of laughter, the boyish charm we had, the “we can do anything attitude” that is never lost and is buried deep inside our thoughts and being. 


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