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circa late 2019. After being Florida snowbirds since December 2005 (returning to Indiana up to 3 times a year for Special Olympics, the Indy 500 and Boilermaker football), we finally decided that we were missing what matters most by living away from the university environment. We sold the house in Florida 11/04/19, moved the contents back to Indiana, and are enjoying being a year-round Boilermaker again. Not to mention that most of our really close friends from adulthood still live in the area. And it's nice to be closer to Battle Creek more often to attend more lunches and visit friends from high school.
circa 2015. My life continues with almost the same interests as 10 years ago (see my story below from 2005). Still retired, now for 14 1/2 years. We continue to travel, just recently returning from a 6850 mile driving trip to San Francisco and back. We needed to come back through Idaho and Montana because those were the 49th and 50th states we'd visited -- another bucket list item off the list. We love to watch racing, mostly Formula 1 and INDYCAR. We just watched our favorite driver, Juan Pablo Montoya, win his second Indy 500 race. My wife, Lyn, attended her 55th Indy 500 race. She grew up in Speedway, IN, just blocks from the track. I sold my Harley in July 2014. We've belonged to several car clubs during the last 40 years. (motor vehicles are an important part of our lives!)
Since August 2014 I've been working with the great reunion committee to plan the BCCHS 50 year reunion and maintain the website.
But our main passion remains the Special Olympics Athlete Leadership Programs (ALPs). We've continued to expand the ALPs program in Indiana and Florida. We taught ALPs classes in Massachusetts, Arizona, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Hawaii. ALPs conferences has taken us to New York, Morocco, Athens, Ireland, Vancouver and California. But more important than the travel, we've passed on valuable life skills to our Special Olympics athletes. They're accomplishing feats they never thought they could ever perform. They are teaching classes, coaching teams, raising funds, giving speeches, providing leadership; they are advocates for other athletes. They are moving from individuals receiving services to individuals providing services.