Jody Van Driel:  

Life Life has been an adventure for me since high school. There have been both highs and lows on the road of life for me, mostly highs, but in a word, a whole lot of “fun”. I married into the military in November 1991, the Air Force to be exact, when I married my high school sweetheart Pete Van Driel, class of ’88. I joined him in Germany where he already was. Our daughter, Krystyna, joined us in May 1993. Our family is rounded out by two, shorthaired, red, miniature Dachshunds. We’ve lived in Germany for just shy of ten years between two tours, Washington State for five and a half years and now Colorado Springs, CO for the last year and a half. We’ll be in Colorado Springs until the next assignment or until retirement, which is in as little as two years from now. After that we’ll just have to see what happens although this place seems to be growing on us. We haven’t been anywhere long enough to know where we want to settle down. We only know where we don’t want to go back to. We’ve been fortunate to have had many opportunities to travel in Europe. Some of our highlights have been Germany, Paris, London, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and Trier (the Gateway to the Roman Empire). In our travels we were able to visit Disneyland Paris, Neuschwanstein Castle (the castle Walt Disney used as a model for Sleeping Beauty’s Castle), the grave site of General George S. Patton at the American Military Cemetery in Luxembourg and a tour of the film locations fo...Expand for more