Becky Silzer:  

Hello! I totally lost track of everyone since high school-for which I apologize. After Crete Monee I went to Rich Central for my last 2 years. I majored in music at ISU. Music wasn't as pleasurable as a major, so I ended up with a psy/soc degree which I never used. I met Tom my first year of college and we married in 1969. Unfortunately he passed away in March of this year after 50 years of marriage. My heart goes out to those of you who have lost loved ones over the years. We were both baptized in 1973 as Jehovah's Witnesses. We lived in east central Illinois most of our lives. Tom worked as a project engineer for various companies. We were fortunate to be able to live in Australia for a while; first in Adelaide, then in Frankston near Melbourne. Australia is very cosmopolitan. Besides died- in- the-wool Aussies, there were people from everywhere. My mom came to visit and we camped all the way to Alice Springs. I climbed Ayers Rock early in the morning. The climb is much harder than it looks. Later we snagged a job co-managing fishing resorts in Costa Rica. It was challenging in many ways. We had 26 Spanish-speaking employees and I hadn't spoken a word of Spanish since high school 15 years earlier! The first resort was located in the jungle at Barra del Colorado. You can zoom in over it on Google Earth. The only access is still only by small planes or several days by boat. We flew a pass over the runway to clear it of kids, dogs, cows before landing. You must have no fear of creepy, crawly, poisonous, squeeze-you-to-death things. I actually loved it. I came home pretty much unscathed except for a ...Expand for more