Contemplating life in the Jack Daniel's Distillery in Lynchburg Tennessee. Enjoy my site, feel free to comment. Hope to see ya'll soon. Jim 

Welcome to my crossroads.

Being in the military and stationed abroad has presented some unique challenges with trying to stay in touch with family and friends. This is made more challenging being that most of my friends are themselves scattered across the U.S. and the globe. Please feel free to visit here any time to drop in on Anna and me to see what we are up to and where we've been. Your comments are welcome and hope you find this a pretty cool way to keep tabs on us. Book mark this and visit often. I miss you all and miss so many of you.

Anna and I at this years Engineer Ball.

Anna and I posing with Doug and Randy. A formal night out, military style.  

Doug Nyland, me, and my boss (right) Randy Johnson in our stud uniforms.  

Got lucky and caught this fast rope training mission while it was going on. Fast roping is a controlled slide down a rope from a hovering aircraft.  

Mission completed......leaving the area.  

Anna in front of a Stealth fighter at Osan air base.  

Pictures from our recent trip to the port city of Pusan on Korea's southeast coastline. The port contains the fourth largest container yard in the world. This is the train we took to Pusan.  

Me freezing on the beach at Pusan.  

Anna freezing on the beach in Pusan.  

Ships waiting to be called to enter the port and docks at Pusan's harbor. There were actually about 40 ships out but they were too scattered to get in one shot.  

The first of three pan shots across the bay at Pusan.  

The second pan shot. Notice the cruise ship to the left of the photo.  

The third pan shot across the bay. 

Pusan City. 

A Korean Ceremony bell in Pusan.  

The UN Cemetary in Pusan Korea. There are about 2,800 soldiers resting here from about 17 countries who participated in the Korean War. It is the only UN cemetary in the world. 

This is where 20 American service members lay in peace at the UN cemetary in Pusan. 

During our last trip to Insadong we got lucky and caught a street festival. We frequent Insadong a lot, its a traditional artsy location and where I go to buy my art supplies. Korean dancers.  

The Dragon dance....(thats what I call it every time I see it).  

One of the parade participants in folk clothing.  

A night out in Insadong. The place looks like neon city at night, the lights are overpowering.  

Out for dinner with my long time friend Todd Minnich and his wife Laura. Todd and I served here in Korea together in 1989. Thats Andy on the left.

My good buddy Gil Rios right before Christmas. Gil scopes out the table for a snack. Anna and I gave Gil and his son a tour of Dongdamun and Insadong shopping areas that day.

The girls posing as wild gals when I went home on leave. They are growing up Wayyyyyyyy to fast.