A Royal Omission

 I forgot to mention that sometime during the summer of 1978, I visited the UK with my family, specifically and only to London.  On our last day there, we had gone downtown (or further downtown) to do a last bit of site-seeing before continuing on with the rest of our trip (yes, first time for me out of the United States and it was a round-the-world trip to visit my aunt and uncle and cousins in Malaysia).

Well, at some point, we noticed that roads were being closed off, so we started walking back to our hotel to pick up our luggage.  We came to a corner and stopped.  Off to our right was a high stone wall on the left side of the road.  Out of that high stone wall soon emerged some ornate carriages....but....nobody was in them.  And then.....out of that same wall came a long black limousine with a glass roof.

That limousine came toward us, and passed around in the corner in front of us.  Sitting inside were Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Prince Charles, and Princess Anne...along with some other royals I don't remember.

My dad captured it on his Kodak 8mm movie camera....and the film resides in the vast storage archives at an undisclosed location :).

So yeah, whoyaseenlately?  That was a gross omission.

Who Ya Seen Lately?

On the way home from work this evening, the thought suddenly struck me that it would be fun to write up stuff about famous and otherwise normal people I've run into. So...here's a sampling of people you might read about here in the coming weeks and months as time permits...people I've run into or seen personally at some point in my life:

• Ronald Reagan
• George H. W. Bush
• Jesse Helms
• John Glenn
• Thurgood Marshall
• Dick Gephardt
• Sam Donaldson
• David Brinkley
• Roscoe Bartlett
• Ralph Nader
• The President of Paraguay
• The President of Argentina
• Desmond T. Doss
• Andrew Young
• Richard Kiel
• Maura Harty
• Roy Jefferson
• Ted Kennedy

....not to mention family members, people I've worked with, people I went to school with, people I've gotten into trouble with (oops, maybe not that one!). This could be VERY interesting...