It's strange when you get old, and think back, upon your youth. I really was a spoiled rotten brat. The few jobs I had, always seem to lead me towards a more successful one. I'm semi-retired now, but on-call and salaried. It certainly isn't glamorous, but allows me a lot of time to be very eccentric.
However all the things I got to do, at least once, would amaze. Almost totally unbelievable, if I was to make a list. Some of the activities, would be impossible for the common person to do, in today's era of fear, and regulations. The things a pretty woman could charm her way into doing around a man in a responsible position, was endless back then and I guess I played my assets towards my advantage on countless occasions. I'm not to sure that the Feminist movement in America, really did anything to help me get ahead, in life. I made my own life possible, by sheer force of personality and attitude and with a great deal of pure LUCK. Always with a LUST for knowledge. Some on the job training too. Knowing a little bit about everything sure came in handy, when you show interest to the right people with the right connections.
From flying a WW2 training Aircraft,
to flying a glider, along the mountain ridges in Hawaii.
Piloting a 200 foot Ferry Boat to Vancouver Island in Canada.
Snorkeling and feeding fish in an extinct volcano.
To playing with dolphins in the wild.
Trips and lunch with powerful people in government.
To personal guided tours with them into secured areas, just to see graffiti left by the builders of said buildings.
Such silly things a woman could talk her way into doing.
Touching cave-art 4000+ years old, possably being the first to ever see it since it was painted. (as there was no other modern marking at all, and in the most remote area, imaginable and nearly impossible to get to, I thought I was going to die going up a sheer rock wall in just a crack with no ropes.) That whole area, it is now forbidden to even enter, and yet it was less than 10 miles from my second home in the southern USA and I used to hike there every day.
Once upon a time in history, forever long gone to future generations.
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