Saturday, August 25, 2012

Neil Armstrong at 82.

I remember very well the moon landing. We kids and the parents were stuck in a traffic jam in Sacramento in the back of the Chevy wagon on the way back from a several day backpacking trip. A week or so on our own in the high Sierra and getting rained on this trip several times.  Down in the valley, it was at least  100 degrees plus. Was that Walter Cronkite doing the radio call? Probably. Good times though. Got orange slushes along the way and us 4 brothers sitting in the back and feeling like real mountain men. And maybe we could go to the moon too. Sorry all the ambition fell out of America while we all fought about Right vs. Left and who should steal the most money.

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