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Above
- Malibu, CA - the "windmill house" where Tom & I met,
fell in love, married & lived until moving to Medford, Oregon...
Above:
the Rogue River - just down the path ... at Touvelle State Park...
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In June 2001 - Tom and I were excited about The Rucklos
Reunion we were preparing for, and our first real “road trip”
together... This brougt back memories for Tom... of all the wonderful
places he and his family visited on their road trips each summer...
Now, as an adult, he realized & appreciated the great places &
beauty his folks had exposed him to... and in making a list of their
trips, he continued to add the places, adventures, people and memories
he had experienced in his life...
I am so thankful that he wrote this all down... here is another part
of my dear husband I can share with the world. Tom Rucklos .. a wonderful,
unique, beautiful person... what a life!
This list
is not in chronological order, but translating it just as Tom wrote
it, along with his little notations. If anyone would like to fill-in
some of the blanks... help with some of your own memories that you shared
with Tom in these places, please contact me — Cindy
"Places I've Been"... (by Tom)
Headwaters of the Snake River
Jackson Hole, WY - a
horse-packing trip with buddies when he was a teen.
The Teaton’s
NY City - Rockefeller Center - Subway - Central Park
NY State Capitol (Albany)
Lake Louise, Canada
Tetford Mines, Canada - Asbestos Capitol of the world
Cody, WY
Lake Tahoe
Grand Canyon
Lee Vining - Mono Lake - High Plains Drifter
Alamo, TX
El Paso, TX
San Antonio, TX
Washington DC (met Billy Jack and Senator’s)
Mt. Rushmore
Mt. Fuji (view out of the back window of his home when he lived in Japan)
New Oreleans (Marti Gras 4 years)
Appalachian Mountains
Harvard
Boston
San Francisco, Buena Vista
Red Mountains
Chicago: Sears Tower, Grand Central Station, Ripply’s believe-it-or-not,
Rigley field.
Lake Okaboji - Scuba diving certified
Las Vegas, NV
Reno-Carson City, NV
Palm Springs, CA
Park City, UT - Skiing, Train Trip
Squaw Valley - Condo “All things must pass”
MS, Australia
Catalina Island - sailing, honeymoon
Memories of Lake Arrowhead & Big Bear:
Skiing, broken ankle, Camps, horses, sling shots, Girl Scouts &
Camp-Fire-Girls. Dead donkey, rattleshankes, caves, flashlight tag,
water skiing, “Ankle knocker buoy”, dragging lake - found
drowned kid.
VW, hot dog choked Brian Ross. (?)
Beautiful: Water, sky
Colorado River - sunset with clouds, 1 side orange to black
Lake Louise, Canada & Glacers
Grand Teatons, Maraposa Lake, Yellowstone,
Appalachian Mountains,
Pacific Ocean
Ugly:
Great Salt Lake
Swamps in the South
More memories...
Odd Things:
Overnighter with Brian Ross: listened to police calls - person killed.
Nearly drowned at the Ross’ pool - saved by Les Weight (?).
Mrs. Ross - weird feeling, specimens to lab (?).
While working in the Operating Room on a “Code Blue” patient
(a man) - Tom couldn’t find a pen (he needed to keep track of every
event, take stats, etc.), and was frantically asking if anyone had a
pen... they revived the man... a week later Tom and the staff received
a case of pens from that patient they saved...
Painful Things:
Dad-Father - Talked to him, and then he died 30 minutes later.
Mom - 5 days - fine to dead.
More Memories...
2 Hurricanes - (Frederick)
4 Typhoons - Japan
1 Tornado - Okaboji, Iowa
6+ Earthquakes (Silmar 1971, NY 1981, Malibu - several 1997-1999)
1 Mt. St. Helens - Fly-over - Eruption re-started
Manson Trial - Squeeky Froom, Charles Manson - wnet with Brad Talt (dad’s
law office 1 block away. “Alan” (?)
MGM Auction - tanks, showboat, ruby slippers
MGM Photo Shoot - jump over fence
Brown Derby - 18 years old, no money, Don Perrinon champagne (Kim?)
While in the Navy, as a Corpsman, working as an Operating Room Tech:
Witnessed 6 deaths
3 Autopsies
1 Body Harvest (Dr. Silverman, Walter Reed Hosp.)
20-25 Hysterectomies (held 10 uterus’ in his hands)
30-35 C-Sections
8 Code Blues
Performed minor surgeries
Weighted Speculum
Seen from outside “How bout inside out” Hysterectomy
Margaret Web: Scluradurma
Tony Blanco - Stiple steel anomate osteotomy
Elaine Akonavitch - Myoplactic Leukemia
Witnessed 1 Natural Child Birth - Dece
While living in Pensacola, FL - Made the simi-pro football team
Pensacola Wings - Broke leg - Fib-Tib - in cast for 1 year. Started
a business (Bobby Smith?) built an outdoor stage - held a couple of
concerts (Elvin Bishop, Leonard Skinnard, Crosington Collins)
When living in up-state New York - Professional Fast Pitch Softball
team - (Peckham’s) went to national’s 4 years in a row...
won a few...
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