Mike Coverdale:  

To all who knew me,Since high school my life has had ups and downs.Living in the desert to me at that time was the greatest.All those desert parties and friends I grew up with.I never had a game plan for my life I just went with it.After high school I joined the army and got married.Neither really worked out.After that I came back home to hesperia.Tried doing several jobs there but with no success.In 1981 I moved to palmdale and thats were my life changed.I met a girl there who truly store my heart and thats when I decided that my life would change for the better.We moved back to hesperia in 1983 and I started working for spartamil co. in victorville as a machinist.Long hours but rewarding because I was able to support my family and be able to do family things,like camping in the desert and riding dirt bikes.After a few years the shop I worked at closed down and we had a tough go of it.Finally in 1991 we decided to go to wichita kansas to visit family and friends.Well we got stuck here, as living in the mid-west has done good for us.I stayed being a machinist here in wichita and I work for spiritaero systems (used to be boeing) as a nc programmer and machine operator for the tooling department.My wife and I have had a couple of homes here and we lived on a ranch for quite awhile raising horses and cows and pigs goats chickens etc.My children grew up and out of ...Expand for more