My sister lived for many years in a rent controlled apartment in Manhattan. The landlord got fed up with dealing with the city rules and told the tenants "the building is becoming a condominium, buy your apartment or get out. The timing was perfect. She retired and bought a home near her...
I was a boy in 1940. My father took us along on a business trip to Canada. Canada had entered WW2, but the US had not. In Canada there were soldiers everywhere. What astounded this boy from Long Island was that many of them were wearing KILTS as part of their army uniforms. I had never seen...
Since retirement we went many places, mostly with a small travel trailer. It took us from Nova Scotia to down the Baja. We had a directory that gave us information about campgrounds. The National Parks are great. We worked in a few cruises some in the Caribbean and one to Alaska. My wife of...
We lived in Aridzona for a time. It was extremely dry, 7% humidity was very common. In the summer it was 100+every day. It was a good base for RV travel, many national parks, and we could go up to Canada and down into Mexico.