For some reason, I remember this being Larry's 60th birthday trip, but I guess not. That would have been in 2008. Hmmm, I am getting old. But this was our first trip to Arizona and I think this is where...Read More

It was June 14, 1980. It was just a month after Mount St. Helens erupted and showered our little town (and most of the northwest) with ash. Doing all of the last minute preparations required going out in the stuff...Read More

Several years ago, my wonderful sister-in-law Vicki Buurkarl Gentry, gifted my husband and I a photo album of pictures of Larry's father. Peter Schmidt Buurkarl kept a lot of photos from his time in the Army during World War II....Read More

June 2005 ~ Larry and I took a land/sea trip to Alaska on Princess Cruises. We flew into Fairbanks, did a land tour down to Whittier then got on the ship to sail to Vancouver, BC. This was was before...Read More