Memorial Day

Today Kathleen (my wife) and Basil Wenceslas (my 4th son) went with me to the cemetary in Paso Robles. We prayed the trasagion for the departed for my 1st son, Billy.

I wish son's #3 and #2 could have been there.

Where I have been

Last week I met a man who has never been out of California. I was astounded by that idea. By the time I was 16 years old I had been to more than a third of the States and to 3 foreign countries.

It is easier for me to list the States I have not been in than those I have been in. So, on my list of States to visit are: Iowa, Pennsylvania, Kansas, West Virginia, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Vermont, Connecticut, Maine, and New Hampshire.

In about a month, my grandson is going to be born at a U.S. Navy hospital in Maine, and I will be there. I'm going to fly into Boston and drive up to Maine. That means that I'll be checking New Hampshire and Maine off my list. If I have time, maybe, I'll motor over to Vermont, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, and therefore, be able to check all of New England off my list. It's weird to me, a Californian, how small those early States are.