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hermitinthecity 70M
1691 posts
5/10/2018 5:08 am

Although I've backpacked the U.S. been to Fiji many times, sailed up the East Coast of Australia living on a boat 13 months, was a boatman and also in charge of scuba diving on a coral island for 4 years, played in bands, I think my divorce was the highlight and getting the kids, the greatest relief of stress I ever had.

Judgment Day will be interesting - and all paths lead there.


bijou624

5/10/2018 6:50 am

Wow what an interesting time of your life that must have been and love the photo. I haven't travelled anywhere exciting but my most memorable moment happened when I was engaged to an opera tenor. One night I brought him to the ballroom where I regularly danced. There was an Italian band playing that night and they spotted him in the audience and asked if he would sing. We had just started dating and all I knew was that he was "a singer" but I had never heard him sing yet and just hoped he wouldn't be a bad singer and embarrass me in front of all my friends there. When the band leader introduced him he went on and on listing all his amazing opera accomplishments and I was shocked. Apparently almost everyone there knew about his singing except me. My memorable moment came just before he sang O Sole Mio and he dedicated the song to his great love Francesca (me) OMG what a beautiful voice.


MrsJoe 76F
17306 posts
5/10/2018 7:27 am

You had some great adventures in your life..... how wonderful.
As for a highlight of my life, I cannot think of just one.... or even two. At my advanced age (BB calls me elderly) there have been so many wonderful happenings that I can not even think of them all.
What a great blog.


Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.


Archer62 83F
7051 posts
5/10/2018 9:04 am

THOSE TIMES ARE GONE AND WILL PROBABLY NEVER RETURN. NOT IN OUR LIFETIME, THAT'S FOR SURE. WHAT A PITY!


Shartaun03 81F
6169 posts
5/10/2018 1:20 pm

When reading Bijou's post about the hi-light of her life being engaged to an opera tenor. It reminds me of back in the 70's when I dated an opera singer who sang in the San Francisco Opera. When we did a trip together in the fall of 1974 we went to SF and he took me to see Madame Butterfly at the opera house. I only heard him sing when he practiced. We met at the Klondike Days in Edmonton, AB. I have had other memorable things happen in my life but this would become a longer spiel if I were to recount them all.


sewg1941 82F

5/10/2018 1:35 pm

I had never been anywhere except to Buffalo NY and Boston. Then, in 1985 I found myself divorced and free to be me. I chose to go to Greece because it was the birthplace of civilization as we know it and I went alone. I arrived in Athens 6 hours late due to a baggage handlers strike and found that my hotel room was gone. The desk clerk called around without much luck but finally found me a room in the plaka, the old town.

The room was down a long narrow hallway lit only by naked bulbs hanging on long cords ... and my room had 5 locks on the door. It was two in the morning... I was exhausted ... ai checked the sheets... everything looked clean.. I said OK... locked all five locks and went to bed. There were dogs barking, cats yowling and just to add insult to injury every cab driver in Athens was leaning on his horn. I finally dozed off but it wasn't long before I woke up... I think it was the quiet stillness that did it.

I got up and explored the metal thing on the wall which turned out to be a huge shutter... it revealed a door and beyond that an old and tattered patio. I went out and realized where I was .... I was well above the old town that nestled beneath the acropolis. The ancient marble was bathed in the pale golden/pink light of dawn. I could hardly breathe it was so beautiful, and that moment it was all mine. I was in the right place at the right time. I thanked the Gods!

I've been back to Athens a few times since then and I always stay at that old hotel in the plaka.


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
5/10/2018 5:27 pm

This is a really interesting blog.......I love stories.......What a remarkable collection of Humans are on this site and we so seldom hear these fascinating aspects. Your adventures in exotic lands sound rich and exciting......I enjoyed the memories evoked by your question, but I can't come up with one particular experience that rises above all the rest.

I did, however glean from attempting to answer your question.....that the most wonderful times in my life were when my heart was flooded with love.......one image like that was of a moment when I was sitting on a log on the beach in front of my home, my baby daughter nursing at my full breast, my son playing in a tide-pool, my husband, with his brilliant red beard and thick curls the colour of fresh hay, docking the beautiful wooden boat he had built with his own strong hands, carrying a big salmon and grinning at us with such love in his calm blue eyes.....love and a twinkle for me as he sat down on the log next to me and kissed me and then his daughter's rosy cheek and held his arms open for his son.....and we sat there watching the sun go down behind the islands........

Not the highlight, but an example of what I treasure......Another is the creative groove.......finding that perfect balance between a plan and improvisation.......


looklook 84M
3925 posts
5/11/2018 4:23 am

ET, I shall never forget the time I spent in Luneburg West Germany in the middle of 1976! The days I passed in West Berlin subsequently are equally unforgettable. Those were the days .......!


bijou624

5/11/2018 6:59 am

Earthy, you asked what happened with me and the opera singer. It really ended badly and he even left the country and went to live in Italy. Even though he wanted to marry me and he was the best man I ever had in my life, everywhere we went women were practically throwing themselves at him and I just couldn't take it due to my own insecurities and jealousy. Biggest mistake in my life letting that one go.


Shartaun03 81F
6169 posts
5/11/2018 6:56 pm

    Quoting looklook:
    ET, I shall never forget the time I spent in Luneburg West Germany in the middle of 1976! The days I passed in West Berlin subsequently are equally unforgettable. Those were the days .......!
I went to East Berlin and through check point Charlie. We took the train from West Berlin into the east side. I will ever forget that train ride as the military guys from the east side walked through the train and they had mirrors attached to guns so they could check under seats. That was a little nerve wracking. We passed by the gate on our way there. To think that gate is now gone. It was difference between day and night between the east side and the west.


sewg1941 82F

5/12/2018 9:30 am

earthytaurus3 replies on 5/10/2018 5:08 pm:
This is a wonderful moment in time, Sandy! OMG!! You bring back memories of challenges in foreign places, but I won't go there right now except to mention being totally lost in downtown Moscow! I was sooooooooo scared I burst out bawling loudly right there on the street where two young Russian girls came running to my rescue and guided me, locking arms on both sides of me in my frenzy! LOL

Thank for sharing this amazing experience. I see we both survived to live to tell of it! LOL

I had to laugh when I read of your adventure gone wrong in Moscow... I loved Russia... and my most memorable memory from there is: One day after being out wandering I came back to my hotel and a very handsome gentleman held the door open for me... I smiled... and he said something. I said I was sorry but I didn't understand ... he said in English... "I was just telling you that you were beautiful". That was and is the only time in my life when I've heard those words...a wonderful memory.


looklook 84M
3925 posts
5/13/2018 9:04 pm

    Quoting Shartaun03:
    I went to East Berlin and through check point Charlie. We took the train from West Berlin into the east side. I will ever forget that train ride as the military guys from the east side walked through the train and they had mirrors attached to guns so they could check under seats. That was a little nerve wracking. We passed by the gate on our way there. To think that gate is now gone. It was difference between day and night between the east side and the west.
I traveled to West Berlin through the then East Germany by train from Luneburg and traveled back to Hamburg from there the same way. While traveling through East Germany, I was astound to see people working in vast agricultural fields and the vacant Railway stations as my train was not supposed to stop in these passing stations. I used to cross to East Berlin from West Berlin through the under ground check point every Sunday to buy Benson Cigarettes from the duty free Dollar shop where each cartoon used to cost me far less than what I needed to pay in west Berlin!