okay what kind of vacations do you
participate in
well well when we were kids we went to uh Mexico a couple of times
uh-huh
and we went to Carlsbad Caverns and uh Alamo
uh-huh
and Oklahoma
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and since then i've gone to uh well i went to Mexico on one trip
and i went to Lake Caddo
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and uh
have you ever been on a cruise before
uh no
no
nothing like that no
uh
would would you like to go on one do you think
no i don't think so because
because uh i like to fish
oh
and i camp out and stuff like that
well they sure are a lot of fun they sure do a lot uh good eating
yeah
uh-huh
if you like to eat that's the place to go
that's one one to go on i i it's the best eating in the world
yeah
oh yeah
oh i mean it's nonstop the minute you get on the ship until you get off
you can start eating and you can eat all night long if you want
fantastic
i'm going to go to Europe in the in the Fall
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and i'm really looking forward to that i've always wanted to go and
i have a friend that's a uh flight attendant for American and her route is London to Dallas so
she wants to go see England
just because she just flies in and flies out so she she knows London but she doesn't know the rest so we're going to go to Wales and Scotland and England
i think that'll be fun
is that in the Spring that this Summer
uh we're going in the Fall September October
oh yeah
uh-huh
and uh i think that'd be great
plus like i say i like i like cruises i'm going with my sister-in-law i'm going on a cruise next summer
uh for about seven days and uh i'd i haven't decided i've been to the Bahamas but i think i'd like to try the uh the Mexico one this year the Cozumel and
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Puerto Vallarta and that that route around like that i believe this next time
but the Bahama one was nice and if that's one of the cruise we can get on i i'll take it again because it was really a lot of fun
and the water's real clear down there
oh just crystal absolutely crystal clear the fish are just beautiful and if you like snorkeling
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yeah
oh just you just can't beat it i i love to snorkel
and the the beaches are just snow white
absolutely snow white have you ever been to the west coast of Florida
um no just to Galveston
oh well the west coast of Florida all all those beaches are snow white like that
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and the east coast you have to get down to Miami before they're any you know before they're snow white but the west coast is just beautiful
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and i i go i moved here from Florida a couple of years ago back from i was living in Texas i went to Florida and came back and uh
oh i'm going to retire down there one of these years and it's going to be in on the west coast of Florida because it's so gorgeous
yeah
the sand sand is just out of this and it's just like sugar powdered sugar
around uh
oh Venice Beach and Clearwater especially has beautiful beautiful snow white sand
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it's really nice
but i grew up in Colorado so i don't care for the mountains too much
hum
uh
and California i'm a native Californian and they have mountains there my mother lives up in northern California
they're nice to visit and i didn't enjoy growing up in the mountains and
i'd rather go to the sun than i would to the to the mountains i mean they're all right
i don't like it because i have to go now see to see me mother i have to go to the the the mountains
yeah
but if i didn't have to
if i didn't have to go i would never go
did you ever go to Yosemite
yes
that's pretty isn't it
yeah it is and i've been to uh of course i grew up in Colorado where it was really mountainous and beautiful
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hum
yeah
but uh when i go back and visit it i'm really disappointed it it it doesn't uh i remember it as a child and it's nothing like what i remembered as a child it's so commercialized and i it really
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made me
got kind of turn my stomach when i went back and saw how commercialized it had gotten but
yeah
i'm not a camper outer so i you know i if you like to camp out so that's fine but i i don't want to camp out
i like the luxuries too much i guess i'm spoiled i am spoiled
yeah
and i spoil myself i guess so i
and then in in Colorado it's mostly streams and they've dammed up some of them now so yeah
yeah
it just so you don't
Colorado just doesn't really show me anything anymore so
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now my where my mother lives in northern California is absolutely gorgeous i mean just
yeah
picture postcard gorgeous and it it you know it just out of sight but uh it's too uh i've got to be by a big city i i can't stand living that far away i fly up into Oregon and drive down to her house
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and uh so she's really way up there and it it i just it's just too far away from a a big city for me i got to have a shopping malls and what have you
and northern California really is out in the boondocks isn't it
oh boy she is in it's it's a good twelve hour hour drive just from San Francisco on winding winding winding river roads
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and it's way on up past the wine country and everything is like i say it's really gorgeous but
but
you fly in through Portland then
no Medford Oregon
oh they have a airport there uh-huh
yeah and then drive down it's about an oh an hour hour and a half's drive from Medford Oregon
but it's all mountain driving
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and fortunately my sister picks me up i don't have to drive it
yeah
tried driving it once from San Francisco and that was a that was very dumb i'll never try that again
they have a they they have a coast highway there don't they or
well this uh where my mother lives is uh it kind of in the middle of the state up north so
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they're about uh an hour or two drive from the ocean for the coast
so you could go up that way but it would be out it would be out of your way better from from to go to her house at like up through Redding and
on up that way
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and uh
how far is it from Tahoe
oh gosh i don't know four hours i think four no
i can't remember i seem like it's eight hours somebody somebody told me it may be
it may be twelve so i can't remember mine i know my son
went from Tahoe to over to their house so and he knows that i i never have gone there so
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i don't know
master the mountains too
yeah it really like i say it really is gorgeous
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uh
i uh i like the sunshine better i mean i'd rather go out where there's beaches and
i don't i like to sun bathe and uh you know it's getting so dangerous now the sun bathe or the sun burns and cancer skin cancer and everything so i load up you know on
the sunscreens and so i because the ocean to me is real soothing and comforting comforting
yeah
and so that's why i like to to go there but and of course i don't like uh i like uh i like to snorkel so i have to go where there's real clear water to do that
yeah and around here the uh the Possum Kingdom is about the
the closest place
is it really uh
yeah they have real clear water and plants
oh i've never been now where is that near
it's uh near um
well it's it's kind of near Abilene but it's it's uh about halfway in between here and and Abilene
oh okay
it's uh you if you know where Albany is then uh it's about maybe an hour west of Weatherford
oh okay
out there west of Fort Worth
uh-huh uh-huh
it's a big it's on the Brazos River they dammed up the Brazos River
oh i see
i see
and it's beautiful
is it
no i i guess i've never been up there my my
when i moved up here uh uh uh from Florida i i misplaced my snorkeling i think they what they did they didn't unpack it it must have been in a box or something they didn't unpack because i ended up without my snorkeling equipment and and a few other things and they must have
been in a box that i had in my garage and they just didn't get them to me so
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i'm going to have to start from scratch i guess and buy all new snorkeling equipment
but i had some really good snorkeling equipment i really hate to start over again but there's no other choice choice but
yeah
anyway have we talked our five minutes
yeah i think so
okay well it's been nice talking to you
yeah nice talking to you bye-bye
uh-huh bye-bye
