I used to wade fish the Mosquito Lagoon area and many of the small tidal canals near the cape. After the Challenger disaster they closed a lot of the little access roads so people were not able to get as close as previously. Same thing happened offshore and in airspace.

I was in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. Only communication technology was a telegraph wire one mile away.

reading Genesis on Christmas Eve 1968. It was my father's last Christmas. I was 14.

Hubert Humphey's election loss to Tricky Dick Nixon. Altogether, a pretty terrible year, except for the fact that I got out of the Army and then this astonishing moon orbit.