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I decided to throw caution to the wind on the evening of Thursday, February 8, and meet up with my friend Jason Heaton to participate in the tournament of champions trivia contest at MacGillicutty’s in Kettering – despite the ridiculously early flight I had to catch the next morning…and the fact that I was not completely packed (and I had just been to trivia at Cadillac Jack’s the night before). The net result of this is that I only got at most three hours of sleep before I had to get up at 3am and do my last minute packing. Read the rest of this entry »

So far the score of racking up trophies in Myrtle Beach condo competitions was this: Briana – 2, Brittney- 1, Brad – 1, Ashleigh – 0. Ashleigh wanted to get a trophy, dammit, and there was nothing that was going to stop her. When there was a trivia contest with a trophy going to the winner announced, she even had my Mom take her to the local library to find the answers to a batch of puzzlers about the city of Myrtle Beach. She nearly swept this contest – only missing a half a point – but some other numbskull had turned in the form with all of the correct answers. Read the rest of this entry »

Although it would not have been my first choice of places to spend our last full day of the 15th International Sons of the Desert Convention, I did enjoy our day at the Stone Mountain amusement park in Atlanta, Georgia. We had nearly had our fill of long bus rides as we boarded yet another one to transport us from Augusta to Georgia. Also on the down side was the fact that Bob had to depart that afternoon for his trip to South Africa and the Wileys opted not to go on the trip since Jimmy was not feeling up to a day in the hot sun. He had braved most of the convention despite undergoing chemotherapy for lymphoma, but understandably sat out this day, and avoided the hot sun. Read the rest of this entry »

This brings to a close our 1975 Florida trip. (Interestingly, when I started putting together this website, I had no photos or info about the trip whatsoever). If you are still wondering why there are no further photos from Disney World since my Dad was obviously wearing his camera in the shot taken in front of the 20,000 League Under the Sea ride…well, there were a few slides. But unfortunately, there were no people in them – so weren’t really worth displaying. Most were actually taken inside the It’s a Small World ride and were rather dark. But just to satiate your appetite, here are a couple of the better ones of Disney World in 1975. These beautiful shots provide a glimpse of Disney from this era. Actually, the knobby little knees in the bottom right hand corner of the photo above right do belong to me. I think there was an attempt to get me into a shot with the famous mouse before the tall lanky girl stepped in and ruined everything. Read the rest of this entry »