Author Archives: Gordon Savage

After Denver we drove across eastern Colorado and Kansas, stopping once to visit one of Dad’s friends who ran a motel. I think he had some kind of wild animals in a tiny zoo. I vaguely remember feeling sorry for … Continue reading →

Before I get started, I’d like to welcome any new readers. I started this blog primarily to discuss what I have written and what I am currently working on. I discovered right away that I wasn’t going to be able … Continue reading →

I’m sure there are many things about Guam that I’m not remembering right now. I’ll come back to them when I think of them. For now I’ll cover what I have on my list. At some time during 1951 the … Continue reading →

First of all let me clarify. I didn’t really learn to drive on Guam. I saved that to my junior year in high school. Still, I did make the attempt. When I was a kid on Guam, you could get … Continue reading →

I’m not about to start making excuses for being late. I honestly don’t know how I got so far behind. Let’s just move on with the narrative. While we were in Camp 2, I had my first ‘girlfriend,’ Ann Jorgenson. … Continue reading →

Well, the Broncos weren’t the better team on the 2nd. Wait till next year. I need to go back to Louisiana briefly. I fell in love with cowboy movies while we lived in Forest Hill. Understand, we didn’t have a … Continue reading →

I’m going to take a brief break from Guam with this post. Instead I’m going to bring us up to the moment. A few years back we had accumulated enough hail damage to our roof to make an insurance claim … Continue reading →

Guam has mountains, at least that’s what they’re called. Camp 2 was on the slope of Mt. Tenjo. I really believed that it was 7500 feet tall, but looking on the Internet, I discovered that it is 1001 feet instead. … Continue reading →

Before I started writing this, I had to look at Guam again. I used Google Earth, and I think I found Camp 2, but boy has it changed. I have a pretty solid memory of the layout on our side … Continue reading →