Bobby Clark

We went just for the weekend and it just so happened to be the weekend of the Savannah Seafood Festival AND the U.S. Powerboat Races! We stayed at a BEAUTIFUL Marriott, right on the river!

Me, Lynette, Taylor, Shea, and two kittens got separated at the GA-SC border while moving from GA to MD in separate vehicles during a "monster" rainstorm. We re-united, thanks to a truck driver & a friendly store owner, then drove to Spartansburg, where we got a room, ate dinner at a 'Steak & Ale', and "crashed" for the night.

It was a quick, holiday trip to visit a teammates family. We at our asses off and everyone was friendly!

I spent a lot of young adult life in Laurel. I enjoyed the convenience of its proximity to College Park, Baltimore, Annapolis, Fredrick, & Ocean City, MD and to Washington, DC. I loved the family atmosphere of Laurel's Maryland City at the time I lived in that neighborhood.

I judged San Angelo very, very harshly when I was there, primarily because I was young and it was SO different from the Shenandoah Valley area of northern Virginia where I was born. San Angelo's landscape was flat, brown, and very, very hot . . . definitely NOT the rolling, green hills and valley complete with four seasons that I was used to. I learned a lot about myself during my first time there (for five months), got my first drivers license, and bought my first car there. I learned about flash flooding, hailstorms, and that the desert can be beautiful.

I entered the military at Lackland AFB, but didn't get to see San Antonio until I married my first wife years later. She was stationed there & I went to school at San Antonio College on San Pedro Ave.. We lived in (what was then) a new apartment complex off of Marbach and had a pretty good time! I learned to love and appreciate the Mexican culture, partly due to the fact that my first wife was a Spanish linguist and the rest to my love of tequila. : )

I stayed on Harry St. with my father's sister the first few summers after my parents separated. I LOVED it! It's where my connection to my father's family was strengthened. I enjoyed everything from hanging out with my cousins to playing basketball on the red clay dirt court to "skinny-dipping" in Grants Creek on brutally hot days!

I didn't fully appreciate Washington, DC until I entered the military, traveled to other parts of the world, and came back to Washington. Now, there is NO other city I LOVE as much as Washington! From it's world-class, mass transportation system . . . to the Smithsonian Museums . . . to the 'food, folks, & fun' . . . to the monuments . . . to the local-regional-international mixture of cultures . . . there is NO other city on Earth like Washington, DC!