Hey everyone. This is my first attempt at keeping a travel blog, and I get the feeling I have alot to learn. I'm down visiting Monika (Washington) Stoker and her family in Virginia Beach. When I was on the COLE (Aug '98 - July '01), she arrived in September of 1998 for a 1.5 or 2 year (can't remember now) tour as Fire Control Officer. Needless to say we spent alot of time together. Today, she is on shore duty and will next attend PXO school as she has screened for command. Woo Hoo!!! She's married to Randy Stoker, also an [View Full Entry]

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Also before leaving the area I went to visit my best friend from high school. I love visiting Tina and her family. First because it's so comfortable. The longer you know someone, the more comfortable it seems to become. But also because it's so strange and wonderful for me to catch up with someone with whom our paths in life used to be identical (when we were 13-20) and then because of different decisions has diverged dramatically ever since. I like to imagine how my life would've turned out, if I, like Tina decided to have a family young. Tina makes [View Full Entry]

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Okay, so I didn't actually type in this entry on the 5th of January, in fact I'm typing it in on the 24th. I'm doing a little catching up. My official start date for my road trip was actually the 2nd of January and I decided to crawl before running since 5 months living out of a stationwagon is a little intimidating to me. So I drove out to Brookeville, Maryland which I think is further north than Bowie, less than an hour from Annapolis, nice and safe. In Brookeville live the parents of Alyce Fernebok, Harvey and Bonnie. Alyce was [View Full Entry]

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