JON KELKER:
CLASS OF 1963
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Twin Falls High SchoolClass of 1963
Twin falls, ID
College of Southern IdahoClass of 1971
Twin falls, ID
Vera C. O'Leary Junior High SchoolClass of 1960
Twin falls, ID
Washington Elementary SchoolClass of 1957
Twin falls, ID
Shoup Avenue KindergartenClass of 1951
Twin falls, ID
JON's Story
(Updated 21 September 2021) Following TFHS I spent summers on a USFS hot shot fire crew, winters on the Sun Valley ski patrol and ski school, spring and fall attending college, a great schedule while it lasted. A subsequent hitch in the Navy, some as a hospital corpsman (medic) with the Marines, earned me a lifetime membership in the Disabled American Veterans. I joined the Navy to see the world but instead I saw the other side of life. Following early retirement from a rewarding three-piece pin-stripe suit career as a budget officer and Nancy's resignation as a finance and procurement specialist, we sold our house in Kansas City, MO, gave all our possessions to our kids and charity, and moved into a 41' diesel motorcoach (Time Bandit) in which we've lived full time on the road since April '97. As of today, our bus/house totals 258,362 miles while towing our Jeep Rubicon (Rubi J). We spend about five months each "winter" parked on our waterfront lot on Long Island (Port Isabel, TX) on the tropical Gulf of Mexico coast just north of the Rio Grande River and travel throughout North America the rest of the year. Our favorite...Expand for more
activities are strenuous hiking, power walking, biking, and off road jeeping while exploring new places such as seen on the Discovery and History channels. We also treasure spending time with kids and grandkids, some of whom have traveled with us from time to time, as well as making new friends and visiting old ones. There's no end in sight to our wanderlust as we truly love our nomadic life and continue to feel very blessed to be living our dream. We have four sons, one daughter, all married (which adds five more kids to the count), 14 grandchildren ages 9 to 37 years and three great grandchildren ages 3 months to 8.years. As a side note, Nancy was raised in Kansas City, MO, and is more than a little envious of our rather idyllic growing up years in Twin Falls where we attended my 50th high school reunion in August 2013 and had an absolutely fabulous time. In 2018 we attended her 50th in Missouri with the same results. At each gathering all those years simply melted away and for three days we were again teenagers.. We're now looking forward to my 60th in less than two years. 'Tis simply unbelievable to say the least.
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![From the Time Bandit and her crew...................
29 Mar (Fri): Port Isabel, TX. Having survived South Padre Island Spring Break 2024, we’re now nearing the end of Holy Week which finds the college kids replaced by cro](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cmpb/medium/e/0/1/1/100233122062_1717785826402.jpg)
![22 Apr (Mon): Galveston, TX, where Time Bandit is jacks down for ten days after an uneventful gulf coast run north from our winter home base in Port Isabel. Today has special meaning as we are now officially beginning our](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cmpb/medium/d/0/1/1/100233122061_1717785825512.jpg)
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Yesterday we arrived at the Harrisburg, PA, Cummins Coach Care shop for an 0700 hrs routine chassis and engine servicing today. All went well but then Time Bandit wouldn](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cmpb/medium/c/0/1/1/100233122060_1717785824362.jpg)
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![We just had a front row seat to history in the making. From right here in our park (Long Island Village, Port Isabel, TX), barely four miles north of the SpaceX Boca Chica Spaceport, we had an unobstructed view of the laun](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cmpb/medium/3/6/b/7/100220173155_1700355977559.jpg)
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![Sad news: Our beautiful son, Bjorn Diego Kelker, passed from this life at 1:30am today, 16 October 2023, as the relentless ravages of acute alcoholism were not to be denied. His battle lasted for many years but in the end](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cmpb/medium/0/9/3/c/100218815376_1698791843471.jpg)
![Sunrise today at the I-44 Travel Plaza (Mile Marker 85) near Chickasa, OK, found Time Bandit waking up between two good friends - Ken Worth (right) and Peter Bilt (left). You may need to click on the photo to get the full](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cmpb/medium/2/9/3/c/100218815378_1698791844115.jpg)
![21 Sep (Thu): Hannibal, MO, and we are jacks down near the Mississippi River, French version of a Native American Ojibwe word, “Misi-ziibi”, meaning “big or long river”. In 1541 near present-day Natchez, MS, Spanish conqu](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cmpb/medium/8/a/3/6/100215907240_1695642340045.jpg)
![My HAPPY BIRTHDAY girl, Nancy, sitting in her office and after 273,567 miles still Time Bandit’s primary driver by 1,793 miles. (you may need to click on the photo to get the full picture)](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cmpb/medium/d/2/8/0/100214835245_1694680026215.jpg)
![A few days ago while fueling at Loves in St. Joseph, MO, Nancy mentioned that in 27 years full time on the road we’d never taken a picture of the process. With that in mind she vacated the driver’s seat, grabbed the camera](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cmpb/medium/7/e/4/e/100214367463_1694312788084.jpg)
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