Daniel Best:  

CLASS OF 1982
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Milwaukie, OR
Burbank High SchoolClass of 1982
Burbank, CA
Burbank, CA

Daniel's Story

I was most likely known as the guy who never completes or finishes anything!! I moved to Burbank Ca. at age 12, I can't remember the name of the elementary school there I just remember it was near I-5 and the airport. I then went all three years to John Muir Jr. High up on the hill. At the time I was into cycling-road racing and kept my most precious possession a Peugeot bicycle in the art class to keep it from being stolen, it was said I could ride as fast up to John Muir as most students could go down. On graduation day I didn't go because I was offered a trip that week to Yosemite so I went there and again didn't complete something important. I then went 1 1/2 years to Burbank High School where I got into motorcycles and some bad habits, if any of you remember some crazy kid racing and popping wheelies on a white cafe' style motorcycle in front of the HS yep, that was me, I got a lot of tickets back then! Time came that I knew if I continued the coarse I was going I was going to kill myself with my reckless lifestyle, so I called my Dad up in Oregon and asked to move in with him. So starts my new chapter in life, I went from a no self respecting nobody in California to the new kid in town from California and living with a father with loads of self respect. So I sold my motorcycle. stopped my "bad habit" and started a whole new life, but still didn't finish anything. I got thrown out of the house 6 months before graduation at Clackamas HS in Oregon so I went back to Burbank, I was now 18 and Burbank HS would not let me go back but said I could go to adult school there next to the mall, NO THANKS! The next few years found me drifting back and forth between California and Oregon working in con...Expand for more
struction. However everything changed in my life in 1986, that was when I was told that I was going to die! I had Stage 3B Hotchkins Disease and I had to start taking this experimental chemotherapy every week for a year to survive, guess what, I dropped out 1 month short of completing the regiment, and sure to the doctors words the cancer came back! So for 10 years I battled cancer and it made me take control of my life and complete chemo or die, it took 4 tries, but I finally completed something! During that time in 1989 I married a wonderful girl, Khrystyl and in that same year I went in and got my GED. Then in 1994 we moved to Iowa, yeehaa, and in 1996 the year I finally got into remission, we adopted two sons Mike and John. Then we moved to Texas YeeHaaa!!! I Love Texas! Where we raised our son's, Mike who is now married and has my grandson Reuben age 2, and John, well he's John, all of them still live in Texas. I tried to retire in 2008 after selling my home and contracting company in Texas and bought a 40' motorhome to travel in. However, I was offered my lifelong dream job of being a Lead Park Ranger (Rec Tech) for a BLM resource area in Oregon Cascade Mountains and close to our aging parents in Salem, so I couldn't refuse! Now my job is to make sure everyone's having a good time! I do many interpretive programs, campground planning, film making and building projects here at our parks. You can find information on the parks and me on Facebook under Fishermen's Bend Recreation Site or some of our film testing on YouTube under GeocaverDan. So it took many years but I finally learned to finish what I started. oh and my motto is....I Don't Watch Life, I Live It! So now you know my life story ;)
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