Carol Thompson:  

Things I did after graduation before I got married.... Went to junior college for a year, transferred to a university. Taught beginning ballroom dancing to pay for my rent while there. Lived in a trailer at the foot of Mendenhal Glacier in Juneau, Alaska for 3 months. A bear lived under the trailer for a while. In the mornings he would scratch his back and the trailer would rock back and forth until he was ready to go catch salmon for his breakfast in the lake by the glacier. I ate wild moose. I picked huge wild blueberries in the same field where a bear liked to do the same (I never went alone and I always waited until the bear left before I took my turn). I loved sitting on the ground, looking up through the tall blueberry bushes, feeling the sun peek through on my face, and eating until I was full. I always picked enough to take home and make blueberry cheese cake. I also picked wild salmon berries (which look and taste similar to boysenberries but they are yellowish-orange in color, "salmon"). There weren't as many of those so they were a real treat. I ate tons of salmon during the months I was in Alaska because that was the season they were spawning. I have been to Ketchikan and Sitka islands off the Alaskan panhandle to visit friends. While in Alaska I learned Native American healing remedies from the locals (which I have forgotten most of or can't find ingredients for any more). I have visited friends on a Native American reservation in British Columbia Canada many times during the 6 months while I lived there. I also taught their children on a weekly basis. While in Canada I rode a bike year-round until the winter snow packed up under my fenders and the tires wouldn't go around any more. At that point I had to carry my bike home and stop riding it for a while. I loved seeing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and I loved singing "Oh Canada", their national anthem when I was at large functions. Been married to the same...Expand for more