Comments | dkwilliams: I've Been Around, Will Robinson

dkwilliams

I've Been Around, Will Robinson

May 02, 2007 19:02

Travel Meme

Gacked from macgeorge1:

Bold where you've been; italicize where you'd like to go.
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elewyiss May 3 2007, 02:27:32 UTC

Cool places. I'd love to see the Wall of China too. My Dad bought a winniabago when I was 12. So I've been to 28 states and 4 Canadian territories. And England.

Like you actually want to know. So, how is the Forging Chains fic going? Gonna be posting soon? (That was said in a totally breathy fan girl voice.)

Elewyiss

dkwilliams May 3 2007, 03:08:49 UTC

I complained when I was a kid - "what? Another castle? A boring old museum?" - but I'm glad my folks dragged us all over the place. The summer before my Dad went to 'Nam, he had to attend survival training in Washington State and we were in Montgomery, Alabama, so they packed up the car and a tent and we went up through the Smokies to D.C. and New York and Boston, into Canada (and over to Montreal for Expo '67), then back into the U.S. to visit his siblings in Wisconsin, then over to Washington, and then back across the country through the Grand Canyon and so on. It wasn't until I was much older (I was 12 at the time) that I realized they were putting in a lifetime of vacations in case he didn't come back. Europe was lots more laid back - we'd take 2-4 weeks to just explore a country, tenting or staying in inexpensive B&Bs, and I loved it ( ... )

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dkwilliams May 3 2007, 19:18:16 UTC

That was an interesting article - I hadn't seen it before, and to a large extent, true. The part about authoritarian fathers was off for me, but then again, my dad was laid back and the Air Force brats I knew (in general) had the same sort of experience. I particularly agreed with the part about friendships - made fast and gone just as fast. There isn't anyone from my growing-up years that I'm still in contact with, although my best friend in high school (also military) and I continued to write until we were both out of college. [BTW, it occurred to me years later that she was black - at the time I never noticed, she was just Jackie, Major Shipman's daughter. But she *was* "on the right side of the ditch", a water run-off that separated Officer from Enlisted housing at that base. People don't believe me when I say I really *don't* see color but it was the way I was brought up, and we were much more inclined to notice rank or non-brat status than skin color. Which is one of the reasons I had a hard time understanding the recent ( ... )