Duane Betteen:  

After graduating, when on to further my education for the next two years. I left the education system and was hired on at JR Simplot as a Industrial Mechanic and have done that for the last 38 years. Was married in 1987 and became a single parent in 1992 raising my daughter. Two years later was raising my daughter step brother (another life story but not the boys fault). Following years were good with a lot of traveling for vacations. When the boy joined Boy Scouts the adventure began. From hiking in the mountains of New Mexico to scuba diving in Key West and Cayman Islands to canoeing and dog sledding in the Boundary Water Area of Minnesota and traveling and seeing most of the sights in the western states as well as the eastern states. Now the kids are grown up and on their own I still travel and spend time camping and fishing and of coarse working. This past year(2014) has slowed me down some since in march I had surg...Expand for more