In the late 1930's Pat's family rented a cabin at Steep Ravine which is just north of San Francisco where they lived at the time. They enjoyed driving across the Golden Gate Bridge which had just been constructed to spend time at Steep Ravine and Stinson Beach during the summer. 60 years later in 1999 Pat revisited the cabins which are mostly still there and are rented by the Park Service.

Pat had so many adventures in her life it is hard to recount them all. She did a lot of travelling with her mom Ruth and sister Dodie, including one encounter which she relived on our trip to Florida in 1998.

On her 85th birthday Pat took a cruise to the Mexican Riviera. Playing bingo and casino gambling in general were her passion and really paid off on this cruise. She won a cruise at bingo which she took latter that year to the Caribbean!!

Pat was so fortunate to be able to visit the Great Pyramids of Egypt in 1990 at a time when that was still possible, even though there was a political assassination only a few days before arriving in Cairo. 

Pat had many adventures in her life, but one of the most memorable was her visit to Athens in 1990 in more that one way. In addition to climbing the Acropolis and seeing the Parthenon and other temples, we viewed an inspiring light show depicting the history of the Acropolis & Athens. Afterwards we went to the old area of Athens to have dinner and a show. We were amused by the low lighting in the area thinking it was a quaint tourist effect. Later we found out that actually there was a garbage & power strike going on in Athens(so Greek!). Our hotel, the Athens Hilton, was located next to a hospital and spared the power outage!

After working in the War effort to defeat Hitler in 1945, Pat was able to visit his most private sanctum 'The Eagle's Nest' 45 years later in 1990.

In 1987 Ronald Reagan said "Tear down this wall!" In 1990 Pat actually did it!!

Pat had many adventures in her life, but this was probably the longest road trip, driving from Pioneer all the way to Fairbanks,Alaska and back(actually we took a car ferry part of the way back). What a shock when we flew to Barrow,Alaska and got off the plane to freezing weather in late August!! Good thing they loaned us these cold weather parkas!

This has to be one of my best memories! Enjoy!!