Oh the Places You'll Go!

• Got married in Colorado Springs.  3 different apartments
• moved to Tucson, AZ.  as newlyweds.  Mark's Air Force assignment-get his MIS at the the University of Arizona.  We lived in a small 2 bed room apartment.
• moved to Nashua, NH.  Cold climate, cold people.  
• moved to Hanscom AFB, Bedford, Massachusetts.  First time living on a base.  20+ years later, we're still in touch with the friends we made there.  Tore my ACL.  Kenny and Barb took me to a Celtics basketball game in Connecticut.  Drove back to base in a blinding snow storm.
• left Massachusetts in our rear view mirror. Headed for southern California.  In such a hurry to leave, Mark got a ticket from a Massachusetts State Trooper.  Fitting farewell.
• Hello San Bernardino, California and Norton AFB.  First week there, 3 girls joked about taking my red Miata from me.  I was ready to give them the keys.  Also:  an earthquake while Mark was gone.  A hostage situation in the area, complete with a SWAT team and a helicopter behind our apartment.  Rodney King and the LA riots.  One week before we were to leave Mark's car caught fire on the freeway.  He was ok, the car a total loss.  Flat tire in godforsaken Gila Bend, Arizona.  
• Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Mark told me we could afford to buy our first house there.  I didn't believe him.  We lived in a nice apartment on Central Avenue while our house was built.  (I picked everything for that house and loved it.)  Apartment was across the street from the State Fair Grounds, so we'd have dinner there after Mark got home.  Our house was on a big corner lot and had a great view of the Sandia Mountains.  I had a good job working for Albertsons.  We were really happy there.
• "Hallo" Brunssum the Netherlands.  So much happened there during the 3 years we were stationed there, I could write a book alone.  #1 thing to remember:  The Bicycle Rules.  3 hour drive to Paris.  
• Ft. Belvoir, VA. and Yorktown,VA.  More school for Mark, then retirement after 20 years in the Air Force.  We bought a house  there-it was my favorite, despite being haunted.
• Moved to Tucson, AZ. because that's where the job was.  Right in time for a tight housing market.  Bought a house and sold it.  Moved into this house.  Mark worked in London for 18 months.  Bought a house in Albuquerque, NM and in Aurora, Colorado.  Bought a second home in Colorado Springs.
• Mark leaves for Paris Monday.  I'm moving to our house in Colorado Springs.  Selling this house.  I'll be going back and forth to Paris-WHEEEEEEE!!!!
• 27 years of marriage.  How many states and 2 foreign countries?  
• I'D * DO* IT* ALL* AGAIN* and wouldn't change a thing.