Homes, Trips and Reunions
Contemplating the Children’s Homes
Our trip through America
Cambridge
Our freshman dormitory room had two bedrooms and a large sitting area with three desks. My new inmates were from Ohio and Wisconsin. I got there first and took the single bedroom. When it came time to switch neither roommate wanted to be in the same room with me so I got the single bedroom for the entire year. We were located on the first floor of Thayer Hall. Next door to University Hall we had a birds eye view of the takeover and the police raid during freshman year.
The next year I changed roommates and we were sentenced to Elliott House. There were five of us in the room which included two seating areas and four bedrooms.
Revisiting Reunions
Salishan
This was one of the first of our mini room mate reunions which included an extended family of room mates. Wine dinner in the cellar. Young David was barely seven months old and golf on the Oregon coast.
Seattle We met for the Pan American games and the last gathering with both Pete and Wendy Danelo. We learned that lives were volatile.
Rapid City We flew into Rapid City to learn about Bunky’s area. Gambling and Dinner in Deadwood, visiting the summer residence of Herbert Hoover, Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse monument in its early stages, Sturgis and the Badlands. I finally saw Wall Drug! We golfed in Spearfish and visited Devil’s Tower in Wyoming visiting Prairie Dog city.
Cambridge
Visiting the College, Night Football,
Chicago
100’s of Flying Elvis landed in Comiskey Park for our entertainment
Nashville
Grand Ole Opry, Jackson’s home, Ryman auditorium
New Orleans.
Cape Cod
Leahy lived on Cape Cod and I have visited his fleet of ships on several occasions. On two of them we had to blow up three of the ships and one wooden boat was being held together by a colony of leeches.
New York
The early travels included finding cheap hotels or eight people to share a room at the Waldorf Astoria.
Later travel included my condo at the Southeast corner of Central Park overlooking Central Park.
South Dakota My visits to South Dakota started when I was sophomore in college when I flew to Yankton and drove back to Cambridge with Knudsons. Later I spent a few days during the summer when Dave was starting his work in Pierre. After waking up in the driveway after a night of Prairie Rattlers I waited several years and returned with visits to Custer National Park, Black Butte, Spearfish. Then came my visits to the Northern Plains Art Show and watching stomp at the hockey games.
Seattle With two roommates in Seattle I spent a lot of time following them around their careers in law firms, families and my digs went from sleeping in a cat house to overlooking the piers from my condo at Pike’s market.
Tacoma I went to a couple of schools in the area when I was a first grader before moving on the Oregon and Metaline Falls to finish my four school, first grade career. Wayne came from there and Dave Page spent high school and most of his professional career being based out of Tacoma with the full circle being completed when my son, David, went to work and school there.
Spokane The scene of most of my younger crimes, building my future, leaving gladly and returning to open an antiques shop, a retail wine shop, a wholesale wine distributor and finally a winery. A place where I built my bridge career including playing professionally and running a bridge club.
Katrina Aftermath
Chicago Staying in the former Playboy Hotel wasn’t the highlight of the trip but did add a little history to the gathering. We went to see the Elvis Chicago White Sox game where a 100 lighted Elvis jumped out of airplanes and landed in the middle of Comiskey field after the night game. We are at several Italian restaurants getting our fill of deep dish pizza and then to Topo Lo Bampo for Mexican food. Leahy and I went to the Hologram museum with Conner and Young David.
Pittsburgh In one of the hottest trips we ever had together we arrived to 100 plus degree weather. We rode the bus out to the US Open and watched Ernie Els win the championship. We sat in Spike’s house and watched OJ drive up and down an LA highway in his White Bronco. We ate in Donora and drove by the Russian Club where Karabin and I had played Uker.
Cape Cod
Visiting Plymouth
Montreal
Visiting McGill
Couer d’Alene
The Lake, The Death, The owner’s suite, Golf
New York
Visiting GU games, condo
Boston
The freedom trail & Rockefeller Conference The end of my career at Harvard I ended up off campus with a high school teacher and a teaching assistant at Harvard.