Judy Beaver:  

Life After I left PA in '59, I went to UW one year, got married in 1961 in Coupeville & had two children, then moved to Ohio in 1964, when my husband got out of the Navy. I lived in Canton, Ohio, until 1981 (no mountains and no ocean <:() but I survived). I kept my married name of Brothers after the divorce & moved to the Washington, D.C. area (closer to the ocean and mountains) where my parents were then living. I went back to school to become a computer programmer/system analyst. Vacations were spent at my time share in Cancun. I met my second husband while living there, & we were married in 1988 after we moved to Boulder, Colorado (Ahhh, mountains again! but a long way from the ocean.) That's when I became a Beaver. I loved Boulder & thought I would stay there forever. I was certainly in the best physical shape I've ever been in what with all the hiking up mountains & cross country skiing we did. After the second divorce & deciding Boulder wasn't big enough for both of us, I kept the name Beaver, moved to Wilmington, N.C., where my parents had retired, & I went back to school again, this time to become a medical transcriptionist. I started my own business there, decided I didn't like the hot humid summers & the hurricanes (even with the ocean and living in a house on the inland waterway and mountains about a two-hour drive away), & moved to Santa Barbara, California (with mountains, ocean. & a warm climate <:). I lived there for 11 years, running my own business; then I went on the vacation trip of a lifetime in June of this year to celebrate having made it to 65 and 8 months so my Social Security kicked in. A friend & I jumped into my brand new screamin' yellow Ford Focus & headed up the coast on Route 1, taking our time travelling to Vancouver, B.C. where we took the Rocky Mountaineer train to places like Lake Louise, Jasper, & Banff. WOW! On the way to Vancouver, we stopped in Sequim so I could show Beverly what I had discovered in 2004 when I came back to Port...Expand for more