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Ethel Showing Tokens for Staten Island Ferry

Ethel Showing Tokens for Staten Island Ferry

Ethel Showing Tokens for Staten Island Ferry

This is my lovely wife showing me she got tokens for the Staten Island Ferry. We were probably in New York so I could attend PC Expo, one of the computer shows I liked to attend. Every year for almost twenty years we went to the Comdex show in Las Vegas during the third week of November. In April or May there would be the Spring Comdex show in Atlanta or Chicago. PC Expo was in New York in June. Periodically there would be a show in Miami or San Francisco, LA or some other exotic place like Little Rock. Ethel and I made the show rounds. That was one good thing about being a computer guy. This picture reminds me of all the computer shows Ethel and I went to over the years. My fondest memories of the shows were when I went back to the hotel after an exhausting day and plopped myself on the bed. My wife, who had gotten up mid-morning, taken a shower, watched a little TV, ordered room service and had taken a nap would then, as I laid there trying to unwind, she would announce – ‘Okay, I’m ready. Let’s go have some fun.’

Loading Up – Lee’s Ferry

Loading Up - Lee's Ferry

Loading Up – Lee’s Ferry

Look at this mess. All these people were going to get into those two rafts. It seemed that the rafts were split into the "party boat" and the other boat. The other boat didn’t have a name. The one I was on was the "party boat" and the only reason that I happened to get on that boat was that I was kidnapped by a bunch of Texicans who found out I was from Oklahoma. I think they took me a long to abuse me.

French Friend on Ferry to Elephantine Island

French Friend on Ferry to Elephantine Island

French Friend on Ferry to Elephantine Island

It’s Pareeeeeee, not Paris, you stupid Okie. The significance of this picture? It’s representative of the fact that I meet a lot of really nice people during my travels. We spend a few moments together as the Frenchman and I did while we were crossing the Nile River in Egypt. These little instances help to restore my faith in humanity. They help me to believe that humans may one day be able to live in peace with each other.

Europe 2005 Split Ferry

Europe 2005 Split Ferry

Europe 2005 Split Ferry

What was another wonderful thing about Split? Location, Location, Location. Here I could catch a ferry for Hvar or Brac or any of the other Adriatic islands that were off of the coast and there must have been thousands of them. I caught one of the many ferries for day trips out of Split to the islands. 11/2005