How I Spent 4th of July Weekend

Internet Access at the Airport Terminal. 25 cents a minute, while waiting to leave LAX. (Click photo if you can't tell what I'm viewing)

My parents had been living overseas for about the last 20 years. They moved back into our Colorado Springs home last year. It was very nostalgic to see familiar furnishings that have been held in storage....old toys that could probably bring me a pretty penny on Ebay, but is worth a million bucks in memories.

I spent 3rd grade through 6th living in on-base housing at the Air Force Academy. 7th grade, my parents bought a house, then my dad's next assignment took us to South Korea.

Nothing beats Mom and Dad's cooking.

This is a T-38. My father flew these during pilot training (painted in the Thunderbirds' paint scheme).

This is an A-10. According to the placard, on Feb 6, 1991, while assigned to the 706th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 926th Tactical Fighter Group, Capt. Robert R. Swain, USAFA '79, scored the first ever air-to-air victory in an A-10 aircraft. Capt. Swain shot down an Iraqi Bo 15c helicopter during combat operations over Iraq.

My toothpaste got confiscated at the airport in Colorado. I only got two squeezes of use out of it. Goddamn terrorists....