VancouverIsland – Chuck the Blogger Guy

Look what I found.

posted by Chuck Ayers Empress Hotel Victoria British Columbia. Vancouver Island, March 1973. We all were coming down one of the hotel’s elevators and when we arrived at the main lobby, wife and I stepped out in to the lobby and ever so quickly the elevator door closed behind us. However our 3-year-old daughterContinue reading “Look what I found.”

Okies make lousy sailors.

They spend too much time on firm ground. Never having to pitch one way or the other in order to steady themselves. . I discovered this early on growing up Okie in Los Angeles. My dad wasn’t able at all to use a sextant or read star charts or navigation map. My Okie mother neverContinue reading “Okies make lousy sailors.”