Where from?

[Starise]

I am mostly content to be where I am. Sometimes I dream about going to visit other places. I have been around a fair bit, but nothing like a few others here. My dad was out of the military when I was old enough to know where I was.

The last few years we have rented houses at other locations for a week within 100 miles of my house so the whole family could be together during a vacation. Lots of interesting places to visit within a 100 mile radius of where I live. I've been to a few of them. People come to my area for vacations all the time. I guess that says something.

[Sower]

20 hours ago, Bluedragon said:

I was a military brat. Interesting, my Sister in Law and I were talking one evening, when commented that she envied me. Because of the places I had lived and the things I had seen. I countered, "I envy you. You went to first grade with a group of kids, went through school with the same group and graduated with some if not all of them. Want to know what the last thing I always saw of my friends? The shrinking out the back of my father's station wagon. 

My dad was also a lifer and we lived wherever he was stationed. That is why out of all  my family of siblings, aunts and uncles, and grandparents etc,  I am the only non native born Texan, being born on base in Virginia where my dad was stationed. We lived on many different bases, and also Clark AFB on Luzon, Philippine Islands in mid fifties.

It actually was a blast for us kids living just a few hundred yards away from the jungle, where we spent most of our time anyway, catching parrots and birds riding the Caribou, a water buffalo. Also we discovered what earth quakes were, regularly. It wasn't a drag till we grew older and leaving old friends behind. Lots of different schools, but also got to see a lot of places with different languages and foods and environments etc. Cool memories.

[Ani Tefillah]

18 minutes ago, Slibhin said:

Born:

Israel

Lived:

Ireland (Most of life)

UK

Sweden

Finland

Japan

United States

Canada (Current)

Shalom! I see that you have lived in Sweden 🇸🇪, my neighbor country. 😊 Can you speak any Swedish? 

[Ani Tefillah]

1 hour ago, Sower said:

My dad was also a lifer and we lived wherever he was stationed. That is why out of all  my family of siblings, aunts and uncles, and grandparents etc,  I am the only non native born Texan, being born on base in Virginia where my dad was stationed. We lived on many different bases, and also Clark AFB on Luzon, Philippine Islands in mid fifties.

It actually was a blast for us kids living just a few hundred yards away from the jungle, where we spent most of our time anyway, catching parrots and birds riding the Caribou, a water buffalo. Also we discovered what earth quakes were, regularly. It wasn't a drag till we grew older and leaving old friends behind. Lots of different schools, but also got to see a lot of places with different languages and foods and environments etc. Cool memories.

Such valuable memories you have! 

[The_Patriot21]

Wyoming USA

[grahampaul]

 I am english,born and bred.and dispite the nations historic love of the sea i am a total landlubber,if i can dip my little pinky at the waves edge ive gone to far.only the kiddies sand castles ,icecream and fresh caught fish n chips can tempt me there.

[Bluedragon]

6 hours ago, Sower said:

My dad was also a lifer and we lived wherever he was stationed. That is why out of all  my family of siblings, aunts and uncles, and grandparents etc,  I am the only non native born Texan, being born on base in Virginia where my dad was stationed. We lived on many different bases, and also Clark AFB on Luzon, Philippine Islands in mid fifties.

It actually was a blast for us kids living just a few hundred yards away from the jungle, where we spent most of our time anyway, catching parrots and birds riding the Caribou, a water buffalo. Also we discovered what earth quakes were, regularly. It wasn't a drag till we grew older and leaving old friends behind. Lots of different schools, but also got to see a lot of places with different languages and foods and environments etc. Cool memories.

Earthquakes were a daily ritual in Japan. Most are not felt, but you would wake, reach out and hold onto the table lamp to keep it from going to the floor sometimes. The oddest I ever saw was when I looked behind me in an open field and saw the ripples in the ground like waves.

Worst feeling ever was a tall building with a restaurant on top, in San Francisco. I started to feel queasy, then realized we were in the middle of an earthquake. Funny feeling that high and no where to run.  

Virginia , Langley? Dad was on the second floor of the CIA building. The floor with no windows. Funny story about that building. He had taken me to the dentist and coming back to take me home, had to stop at the office for a minute. "Same decision, stay in the car or go inside with me?" "Go inside." "12 years old. loved the saluting and greetings along the way. We walked inside and he stopped. "You go no further. Stay inside this circle and do not leave the circle, Understand?  Good." 

Guys coming down the elevators would taunt me. "Dad told you to stay in the circle right? Come over here and let me show you this." "No Sir, Dad said not to leave the circle." For several weeks afterward. Guys would stop by his office and tell him, he should be proud, they couldn't get me to leave the circle." I had looked down and read the circle while standing there. "The Central Intelligence Agency." I thought " what in the world are we doing here?" 

Edited May 18, 2022 by Bluedragon

[teddyv]

5 hours ago, The_Patriot21 said:

Wyoming USA

What an amazing place. Have not been down in the southern part like Cheyenne. The Bighorn Range is one of my top places in the western US.

[The_Patriot21]

2 hours ago, teddyv said:

What an amazing place. Have not been down in the southern part like Cheyenne. The Bighorn Range is one of my top places in the western US.

The bighorns are only about an hours drive from where i currently live. Ive spent many a weekend driving crazy woman canyon and fishing at tie hack and tensleep. Did a fair amount of hunting up there to with no luck however. I seem to have better luck in the Wyoming black hills.

Alas i am moving farther south in a week (towards sheridan) but i definitely wont be forgetting the bighorns. Theyre beautiful. I hope to make it back up to bomber mountain someday. Its on my bucket list so to speak.

[Ani Tefillah]

16 hours ago, Slibhin said:

Inte sa mycket.

I see. 😊 I understand Swedish well, as a Norwegian, and I think it is a beautiful language.