Eight Things You Didn't Know About Me
1. I have not lived more than 3 years in one location since leaving home in 1977.
2. I have never been outside the contiguous 48 states, but have driven across the country on my own 5 times. One of those times, driving 1991 Honda Civic hatchback heading back to Monterey, California just crossing the AZ/CA border -- no gas. So I said, I need 10 bucks to get from here to home. A couple miles later I saw an old man next to his pickup, stopped to see what he needed. He offered $10 if I would give him a ride to his house to pick up some tools. It turned out to be a fantastic ramshackle desert rat estate... yes, I made it back fine with a few cups of gas in the tank to spare.
3. My ancestors are Finnish and Swedish from Northern Minnesota.
4. There is a bar and sauna on the main street of my grandmother's home town, Biwabik, MN.
5. I rode a bay horse named 'Jim' in the 4th of July parade in 1975 down the brick paved main street of my home town, Ashland WI (pop. 10000 at the time).
6. Patrick T. drove my Honda Element up Canyon de Chelly, we got stuck in the sand, dug ourselves out and really had to baha to stay afloat on the way back out. My car was packed to the roof with stuff since I was moving from Boston to LA. Lampshades were falling in our laps. We laughed only a little bit!
7. My girlfriends and I used to wear bad fitting second hand 'vintage' clothes and smoke hand rolled cigarettes in the middle of winter in 1983 on the edge of Lake Superior.
8. My husband, Otan and I love the movie Broken Trail with Robert Duval. We've watched it, how many times?
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Thanks for sharing about you & joining the meme. Biwabik is a unique town. :) quaint maybe?
Yes, quaint might be good! Though have you ever been to the Calithumpian Parade on the 4th in Biwabik? It was a funny parade. What I remember is my grandpa and grandma's friends, for example, going down the street wearing only a barrel and waving a plunger around... or the four man precision marching unit with a 2x4 tied to their left feet. We all laughed a lot.
I don't mean to say that this is all that happened in Biwabik, but it sure made an impression on a six year old girl!
Hey, hand-rolled cigarettes are still cool. The only time they're not cool is when you're at a conference or visiting with your parents, in which case you take on the tint of a fringe pot dealer. I don't know yet why this is -- but I'm determined to find out.