Let's Go On a Tour

Not a very exciting day, did our normal errands and chores. So I thought I would post some pictures of my favorite places we have lived.

This is Annapolis and even though we didn't live here (we lived in Glen Burnie) it is where Dan and I got married. The church in the center of the picture is in the middle of a circle and City Hall was right across the street. We got married in a closet-sized room, I still don't know how we fit five people in there. And this just proves there was a time in our life that we did go out after dark.


Next is Adak, AK out in the Aleutians, we were so close to Russia we could almost see it. Adak was a beautiful place and we liked it so much we went back ten years later for another tour.

This is looking down the runway, I don't think I ever flew in on a day that looked like this. It was always rainy or overcast and windy so the plane would rock back and forth and of course you just knew you were either going into the water or into a mountain.


Just another view to show the beauty and when the weather was nice you couldn't ask for anything more. We would have "Sunshine Liberty" on a day like this. Everyone would get to go home early so they could enjoy being outside.


Of course there were eagles everywhere, some days you would see groups of 20 - 50 just walking around. You can also see the imagination that went into naming things on Adak, this is No Name Creek because no one could come up with a name.


Talk about going from one extreme to another. Our next duty station was Guam where our lowest temperatures never even hit the highest temps of Adak. We saw 60 degrees a couple of times on Adak but never dropped below 70 on Guam.

This is the south end of the island, it was pretty mountainous, the north end where we lived was a plateau but pretty high about sea level. That made for some terrible walks down to the ocean to go diving, carrying all of our gear. Guess it really wasn't the going down that was bad, it was more the back up after a couple of hours in the water.


This is still the south end just looking over the cliff in the top picture. Again this was a beautiful place to live. We were always very lucky with the places the Navy sent us.


That was just a quick tour of our first three duty stations, maybe I'll do this again sometime for some of the others.