50 years ago, I was stationed in Germany and my wife and daughter had just left MN to join me over there.
My wife had made me promise we would come home at least one time during my 39 months overseas. I was going to keep that promise too. But my wife decided that the costs of flying home vs the possible once in a lifetime travel opportunities we had in Europe were too high.
While stationed in Germany, we traveled to Belgium, Luxemburg, France, Switzerland and Austria.
The travel bug has stuck with us as we have been back across the Atlantic 4 times since then - back to Germany and Austria in 2013, Italy in 2019, Iceland in 2022 and Sweden in 2023.
We've also traveled extensively in Canada, been to numerous islands in the Caribbean and South America.
Our next big trip is to Okinawa - where our grandson is a crew chief for a VM 22 (Osprey) with the Marines. This will happen April of 2025.
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