Posted on 02/07/2016 10:03:51 AM PST by lulu16
We're near the end of escrow on our home and on our way to travel for a year plus, including to Mexico and Belize (husband's bucket list/ escape plan) and we're packing the dogs, my husband's collection of boonie hats and my prepper gear in a big old high top handicap van, a Ford E350. Yup, a 2007 FORD E350 XLT SUPER DUTY. That's our sweet ride. Honk if you see us.
Turns out our next door neighbor was the engineer in Detroit that developed its seat belts. What a wonderful world of coincidence.
Just for fun. Anyone else have a story they can dine on about someone who has created or done something, cool and significant. Just wanting to hear some fun stories.
That story is weird on all sorts of levels. It’s the kind you tell at the end of a camping trip. Thanks for sharing.
And we always call my dad when we’re in Flagstaff under the route 66 sign and have him sing the song.
Northern AZ is lovely as all of Arizona. Don’t forget, when you get to the Grand Canyon, remember what Fred said to Barney, or Bam Bam, when the river barely made a dent in the landscape.
“That is someday going to be the Grand Canyon.”
My husband can’t bare the thought of putting our dogs on a plane, so hence, the van.
Here is the site we have been using on traveling abroad. On this section for pets coming into Mexico, it’s quite common and not difficult.
Best wishes on your journey to Belize. I have driven a bus loaded with children’s supplies to Belize from USA. It was a difficult and at times dangerous journey. However I met the most wonderful and faithful people on that mission trip. Best wishes again and I hope to hear from you at the end of the wonderful adventure.
Be careful...
God Bless You..
Okay, you win! I remember when the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles was just buzzing with people involved in engineering feats like the one you described. What a great time and what a wonderful American achievement.
Oh, thank-you for you blessings. We know missionaries in Belize too. So much has to be done. How your faith has carried you to do great things for others and meet people to help you on your way.
“Route66 at least to Flagstaff””
From where?
I know the guy who invented the Apple computer...and I have lots of funny stories about him but, won’t share them here.
Woz is way kewel...
I have friends who live in Puerto Aventura.
Wonderful community, warm waters out the back door and plenty of hot women....
An elderly lady I knew, she’s since died, was the cousin of Rudy Perz, who created the Pillsbury Dough Boy.
I work at the embassy but assist a missionary in Freetown. He goes “upcountry” while I preach and run the services in the Baptist church he started in Freetown.
I have a bucket list too and it does not include Mexico and certain other Latin countries. I quit going south after I barely escaped an unexpected incident directed at me. It involved criminals and cops, actually one and the same.
Over the years I have taken note of all the horror stories and have just concluded the odds and the risk is just too great for me. YMMV.
I will never visit Mejico again.
California border.
I grew up in San Bernardino so it’s always been in my sights.
One of my best friends is a descendant of the Clanton Gang of O.K. Corral fame. Her family owns the Clanton Cafe on rt. 66. She is one partying machine, loves to have me over for drinks just to see how wrecked she can get me. A trouble maker true to the family name, but a real lover of humanity with a heart of gold. I love her to death.
I also had a nephew who went to the Citadel on a baseball scholarship. Son of the aforementioned sister, who married a pro baseball player.
My grandad was a taxi driver in Waco in the 20s and 30s. One day, a man and woman get into his cab. He takes them to their destination, and the man pays with $100 bill. At that time, most people didn’t even know what a $100 bill looked like. My grandad said that he couldn’t accept it because he couldn’t make change. The man said keep the rest as a tip and said, “You can always say that you rode with Bonnie and Clyde.”
My great-uncle Richard Scheffel, born c. 1886, knew the Wright brothers in Dayton. Richard hung around, as teenaged boys do, their bicycle shop, since it was the coolest thing before autos. He had some fun stories about them he used to tell us.
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