Thread:Oceanfront/@comment-33299993-20180202203037/@comment-33299993-20180425011551

Ocean I live in Missouri. I was born in Australia. There are people on here from different countries but I have lived in the US since I was 9 months old.

I am glad you have friends who will take you every where. That is wonderful. My friend and I used to go on two week road trips without much of a plan. One time we went to Canada to the parks in British Columbia and Alberta. We had no reservations. You can stay in rooms in people's houses in one little town and we stayed in a basement. I like the Tetons and Yellowstone and Colorado and Yosemite and my friend likes New Mexico flat with mountains all around. He goes nuts over wildlife and likes to take pictures of them with no people in the photo. Then you have a picture of an elk or bison and no person in it.

My father met my mother after he escaped from Corregidor in WWII. After the bomb was dropped on Japan the war was over and my mother and I came to the US on the Lurliner. I may have misspelled that. A luxury ship taken over for war purposes to transport soldiers and war brides back to the Us. My mother and I lived in Kansas with my father's family while he was in China and then we moved around every few years until he retired after 20 years. I am a Navy brat an old one. My sister and her husband visited Australia last year with her neighbor and a friend. I didn't go but I could have. I don't leave my dogs or John. He has a bad heart and we don't go far but I am grateful to have him for a companion. I really don't work hard at all. I am retired and live in the country. One of these days I will have to move nearer to people. Thank you for your kind invitation. You are a special person. I skipped the whole challenge too. I still think the game is fun and interesting with interesting friends. I make my own goals for it too. Helen