{"id":783,"date":"2011-05-21T12:39:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T19:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/hultquist\/?p=783"},"modified":"2011-05-21T12:39:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T19:39:45","slug":"saturday-nostalgia-meets-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=783","title":{"rendered":"SATURDAY — Nostalgia meets Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written on Tuesday: I don\u2019t know when John will put this out, but I\u2019m leaving for Atlanta, GA Wednesday morning and won\u2019t return for a week. This is for my 50th<\/sup> North Fulton High School reunion, and I\u2019m also going to have a mini-reunion with family on my father\u2019s side.<\/p>\n

Sunday this week we told you was a birthday party, but we celebrated it without the honoree because of a flood in the church basement where they operate a day care center.\u00a0 So, they had to mop, suck out water, remove furniture and rugs, and otherwise clean up the mess.\u00a0 We went ahead and ate without them but with another family member visiting from Spokane.\u00a0 That was in the middle of the day.\u00a0 I went to Taize\u2019 in the same church that night, and we met upstairs.\u00a0 I saw the family there and got the update on the clean-up.\u00a0 They were pretty worn out and still had a couple more hours of work.<\/p>\n

Monday included a trip to town for exercise and to get meds, visit my friend in the nursing home, and come back to work on packing, and deciding what to take.\u00a0 John printed out maps and directions for me to use while down there.\u00a0 We got a surprise call late, asking us to come back to the same house for the delayed birthday dinner.\u00a0 We did, and enjoyed a lovely roast beef with mashed potatoes, gravy, veggies and salad.<\/p>\n

Tuesday — working on getting ready to leave, deciding on clothes, washing, drying, and cleaning things; and doing emails, talking to a friend from high school who was planning to come to the reunion, but sadly had a motorcycle accident and broke his collarbone into 2 pieces, and two ribs in two, and cracked in total, six.\u00a0 He is unable to travel.<\/p>\n

Wednesday.\u00a0 Tripping all day.\u00a0 Leave on Airporter Shuttle from Ellensburg, get to Sea Tac and get through security.\u00a0 I have all my paperwork for the ICD Defibrillator and information on having an artificial heart valve.\u00a0 I have a letter from my doctor and wallet cards from MedicAlert & Biotronix the other about my Porcine valve.\u00a0 Then make it to the AirTran (now part of Southwest Airlines) non-stop flight to ATL, arriving at 9:35 PM.\u00a0 My friends with whom I\u2019m staying will meet me in baggage pickup and take me home.<\/p>\n

From Ellensburg the preferred airport is Seattle\u2013Tacoma International Airport, known as SEA-TAC; not to be confused with the more recent town of the name SeaTac.\u00a0 On the best day the car trip is 2 hours.\u00a0 There are no best days.\u00a0 Traffic, accidents, and road construction can ruin a person\u2019s plans.\u00a0 We\u2019ve tried Spokane, Pasco, and Yakima airports.\u00a0 A 50 mile trip to Yakima gets one a flight to Sea-Tac.\u00a0 Pasco is a 2 hour drive and Spokane is 3 hours.\u00a0 Connections are not great from either place.\u00a0 Years ago I would drive to the SEA-TAC area and rent a room for a night; there then would be a shuttle to the airport and a week\u2019s parking at the motel. That plan eliminated the traffic problems but added to the cost and John did not have to drive.\u00a0 A couple of years ago the community got the service of a small bus (The Airporter) that picks folks up at about 9 AM (just a 12 minute trip from home).\u00a0 It takes a little extra time but allows for a potty stop as compensation, and the cost is not unreasonable.<\/p>\n

Thursday, plans are for a cousin to pick me up in Decatur, pickup some Old Hickory House BBQ,\u00a0 take me to Mableton to visit another cousin, and on to another cousin\u2019s house in Marietta.\u00a0 We will visit her mom in an assisted living home, and then have dinner with all her family and one other cousin\u2019s wife.\u00a0 That cousin has died.<\/p>\n

Friday will be light till late afternoon, when I go to the North Fulton High School 50th<\/sup> Reunion reception from 5:30 to 7:30, and afterwards to dinner with the folks who are housing me.<\/p>\n

Saturday starts with being picked up by one of my classmates who lives in Decatur.\u00a0 She will drive us to pick up others and go to our old high school — but is no longer a public high school.\u00a0 Via a long term lease and a multi-million dollar investment my HS has become a private primary and secondary campus for the Atlanta International School.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.aischool.org\/page.cfm?p=301<\/a><\/p>\n

On the left side of the page, click on \u201cCampus\u201d to see a picture.<\/p>\n

[Note from John: Nancy is having a grand time and reporting on major changes to the area she once knew well. She just called to say as part of this yearning for the idealized past they had gone to \u201cThe Varsity\u201d — an eatery known and loved by all.]<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.thevarsity.com\/history.php<\/a><\/p>\n

Sunday.\u00a0 Will spend all day with the family I\u2019m staying with, their kids, and the grandkids.<\/p>\n

Monday.\u00a0 Will be picked up by a long time friend from college and we will get her sister and travel to visit the couple who started me in Geography\u2014my first geography teacher and his wife.\u00a0 They were also the ones who chaperoned the Field Trip to Europe in 1965, to 17 countries, with 19 girls and 4 boys.\u00a0 It lasted 9 weeks.\u00a0 The friend picking me up was also on that trip.\u00a0 We will visit and go out to lunch in Johns Creek, a new town in the Atlanta region since I was there.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johns_Creek,_Georgia<\/a><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t return home till May 25 and it will be an all day trip back as well.<\/p>\n

All our best<\/p>\n

Nancy (in \u201cThe South\u201d),<\/p>\n

and John (in the Great Northwest)<\/p>\n

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