The early seventies…

So after attending four high schools in four different states it came down to my turn to graduate from high school.  We move to San Antonio my senior year and when I spoke with the principal I found out I only needed 2 hours to graduate but the school district required me to take three… but I didn’t need any required classes so I could take anything.  I took building trades… so while everyone else was taking college prep classes I was banging nails as my class was building a house for a developer for the year. Best class in high school I ever took… :)

So after high school I graduated and refused to go to college because I hated school with a passion… so I worked as a roofing assistant in San Antonio, Texas in the heat of the summer… boy was that an intelligent idea :) Well after one month of that I decided to go back to Oklahoma where I went to high school for my junior year. Boy was that an eye opener… in the one year I was gone everyone of my friends were either doing drugs, selling drugs, or growing drugs… so it was back to San Antonio to work as a carpenter's assistant (no more roofing for me as I was starting to wise up).

After two more months in construction I decided construction as a profession just wasn’t for me. So I joined the Air Force since ‘Nam was winding down (remember I needed to move on because I was getting the traveling itch…) So they put me in boot camp and then I took electrical school and missile in Illinois and finally got shipped to South Dakota (home of many RV’ers)… well after roofing, framing, and working on our countries minuteman missiles I finally decided to leave the military but wasn’t sure what to do next.  After all I couldn’t open up a minuteman missile repair shop in the civilian world… so I finally decided I should go to college…

this too will be continued…