David Soafer:  

Life Well, After sitting at home with a full length cast still on my L~leg from a broken Patella and another 1/2 cast just removed from my swollen R~fractured ankle in 1974 while everyone else was walking across the graduation stand and receiving their diploma, I unceremoniously received mine from my home teacher (Drafting) Mr. Young. High School was over...... B average, not too bad for those heady days. I graduated, that's nice, but few fond memories like the rest of you reading this. Oh well, time to move on... Completed some course work at Cypress College just up the street from my home of 17+ years in Buena Park and got the urge to "see the world". Well that didn't take me too far at first and I only got so far as Palm Springs working at the aerial tramway for the next 8 months. It was a flexible working schedule though and I spent allot of time backpacking and trekking in the San Jacinto mountains and canyons (anyone remember Taquitz Canyon ? ) above P.S. Met allot of great folks I wo...Expand for more