Wells Fun Run and Whitewater Rafting

Later next month, Mitch Geriminsky and I will be heading back to the "scene of the crime" at Wells, Nevada.

The "crime" was my little medical emergency that led to my having two stents put into an coronary artery in Twin Falls, Idaho.

Hopefully, this year I will be able to enjoy the Wells Fun Run. As I was flown out of Wells by a helicopter air ambulance, I completely missed the Wells Fun Run as it started a couple of hours after I was stricken.

Above, the "Purple Gang of the California Republic" rafting down the Kern River in 1985.

Thankfully, the heart attack happened at the right time, where there were people around, so that quick action was taken. I was told later that my pulse rate went down to 24.

This year, provided all goes well, following the Wells Fun Run, we'll be heading into Wyoming for some R & R and do some whitewater rafting on the Snake River. Mitch has never rafted before, so he's in for a treat! This will be the first time for me since the late 1980s.

I am looking forward to it.

1985...

While going through some photo albums looking for something else, I came across these three gems from 1985.

First, these two from a barbecue of The Purple Gang of the California Republic (our little GOP political faction):

Above, from right to left, Arleigh Kerr, Mark Rosenthal, Tom Cotrel,
Lynn Davis, Glenn Thornhill, Dwayne Padgett and yours truly.

Above, same group, but Arleigh Kerr's missing. 

Then, here we have Mark Rosenthal (center), Glenn Thornhill and yours truly with Stan and Ollie at the Way Out West Tent's (L.A.) Sons of the Desert banquet at the Sportsman's Lodge (or was it Sportsmen's Lodge?):

I think I still have my fez somewhere around here.