Recent content by bowmore

We married 18 years ago, after losing both our spouses. This made us appreciate each other more.

I got married at 69, and it has been the best 18 years of my life.

Unfortunately, AMTRAK changed the rules for private rail cars. I devastated the private rail car owners because they could not run the charter trips they used to. Fortunately, I took my wife on a birthday trip on a private car from Seattle to Los Angeles coup[led to the Coast Starlight. There...

Welcome,Carmen. Having gone through a divorce myself, I understand how traumatic it can be. A word of caution, NEVER discuss your finances in a forum. It invites people who do not have your best interests.

We firmly believe in the "warm hand" rather than the "cold hand". It is heartwarming to feel the gratitude our children express at our gifts. Funny story- we sent our children some substantial checks using Express Mail, so we could track the delivery. One of our sons remarked ,"I have never seen...

The longest train ride I have been on is the Trans Siberian from Moscow to Vladivostok. 9000KM. The most memorable one as a couple was a birthday trip for my wife on the Coast Starlight from Seattle to LA. We were in a private rail car with only 8 passengers. The most complicated trip we took...

In 1993, my wife suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage. She was in the hospital or nursing home for 3 months, and had caregivers for another 3 months. I was her caregiver after that until she passed away in 2005.

Just watched "Society of the Snow", a movie about the Andes plane crash where the people survived for 2 months before being rescued. Gripping

When I retired, we traveled extensively. As we got older, the thought of airports and airplanes was daunting. Our final 3 trips, cruises to Mexico, Hawaii, and Alaska were round trips out of LA. NO airports! When the travel dust settled, we had been on 52 trips, including 18 cruises, 4 train...

Until recently, when we sold our house, we had a 4800 watt generator. We needed it for the fridge and freezer. The smartest thing I did was to get a 6 foot heavy duty extension for the fridge so I do not have to pull it every time to pull the plug from behind the fridge.

Walking away from an 11 year marriage where the stress was making physically ill.

My late wife and I exchanged letters and notes over the 30 years of our marriage. Some time later, I met a wonderful lady and married her. When I sold my house and was cleaning out things, I looked at the things we had sent to each other and made I decision. We had no children, and nobody else...

We live in an apartment with a balcony. We have 3 succulents- 2 fire pencils and an aloe. We have a plumeria and a dahlia I transplanted into a pot from our old home. I am trying to get a gardenia to grow, but I found out I had it in the wrong place in the sun.

My wife's Perpetual Cruise I picked up her ashes on Friday the 10th, and kept them at home until the12th. On the morning of the12th there was a moderate earthquake here, as if to say even the ground was unhappy. I drove out to Oxnard, where we went for most of the 29 anniversaries we celebrated...

I also had to move items that used to be in my curio cabinet at our old home to 3 shelves in our new home.