This afternoon I got to re-live my recent month full of vacations all over again – all of the stores that I shopped at, all of the restaurants that I ate at, all of the fun things that I did, and all of the good times that I enjoyed in Europe, in the Mediterranean, in the Atlantic, in the Dallas Texas area, and at two South Florida airports – MIA & FLL.
I just looked at my VISA bill for the month ! 😎
VISA – ENJOY LIFE’S OPPORTUNITIES
This afternoon as I walked out of my workplace building I saw two of my co-workers looking up at the sky. They pointed out the Goodyear Blimp to me. It was hovering perhaps a thousand or less feet directly above our base. I thought that was unusual. Who gave the crew of the blimp permission to check out our base from up above ?
As I drove out of the base and then ultimately southbound on Speedway Boulevard – or as I sometimes refer to it ‘The Homestead-Miami Speedway Expressway’ – the blimp followed me (and beat me). It drifted over to where North Canal Drive meets Speedway Boulevard, turned around, and then flew directly over my car as I approached my right-hand turn onto North Canal Drive.
One of these days I will somehow someway get myself into one of those blimps on a nice leisurely sightseeing trip over this area. I’ve always wanted to do that. Blimps are fascinating to me.
Exactly 20 years ago TODAY – Monday November 30TH 1987 – I departed from my original hometown of the Washington D.C. area for a new and mysterious place that I had never previously been to before in my entire life.
I was headed southbound by air down the Atlantic coastline to Miami Florida. I arrived at MIA late that night, and then I eventually got on some type of military shuttle bus that would take me the rest of the way to my ultimate destination – Homestead Air Force Base.
I got in to the base a couple of hours after Midnight on the next morning, and I checked in to the Billeting facilities on-base. Technically December 01ST is my anniversary date here in Homestead, but since I actually arrived at MIA late at night on the 30TH of November I’ve always considered this to be my anniversary date.
I was a young 20-year-old Active Duty Air Force Airman First Class when I first arrived at the base, and now I’m a not-so-young 40-year-old Department Of Defense General Schedule Civilian with 20 years of experience. Give me another 20 years (or probably less), and I should be retired from civil service and living the good life !
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