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Well the time is coming soon where I will get to realize this dream! I am getting married to Catherine on 3 July. We wont be able to be together right away, but its the next step towards getting there.

I will never move back to the east coast…that being said…there is something about NYC that is pretty cool! One must see it to fully appreciate it!

I did enjoy the sun and Disney Land though. Surfing is better further north.

Ive been there a few times. Not really into it. I did get to escort Ms. Montana in the Ms. America pageant before it moved to Vegas. All-in-all was not worth it.

Was stationed at Ft. Monmouth for 3 years. Went up to the Hamptons a few times. Not into the whole scene. In fact, I guess one could say Im not really into the whole east coast beach scene. To each their own.

Ever since I was a little boy I’ve been sailing…long before I learned how to walk.

Now that I have the means to do so Id love to sail a tall ship in the Great Barrier Reefs. Just like sailors centuries ago I can witness the beauty of the marine life and beautiful blue waters.

Soon…someday…I will fulfill my dream.

The most beautiful woman Ive ever met lives there. Im due to leave on the 1st…Canada day. My first ever! I get in at 530 pm. Just enough time to have a few beers and a bar-be-que. And then to celebrate my first 4th on foreign soil. It will be different, but who cares. I’ll be with Catherine.

I love you Baby!

Catherine is the most beautiful person in the world. Inside and out, and it would be the greatest honor if she would let me be there with her! I love you Catherine!

No, it’s not the same place that I grew up in. It used to be full of hardworking middle-class workers. Down the middle-of-road common sense politics and people. Those days are long gone…as those people have been taxed out of their homes. They even got old man Stewart! I never thought Id ever see that day!

I was there when Rich Wheeler won his first state wrestling championship and set in motion the Vashon Island wrestling dynasty. Wheeler? Who’s that? Yup, his family packed up and left shortly after I did. I was there the day Bill Burby died. A fantastic cross country coach, a great teacher full of life, and most importantly a fantastic dad to two of my high school friends. Do they even call the Strawberry Festival run the Bill Burby run anymore? I was there when the Dairy Queen was just a drive up. It’s not even called the DQ anymore.

I got out just in time as all the Microsoft money funneled into the area back in the early 90s. I still miss home and my folks still live there. But it’s just not the place that I remember. Things change for sure. But their was nothing like Vashon Island back before the early 90s.