Russ Cicotte:  

Well, it’s been 60 years since I graduated from Shoreline High School and I’m still alive. Like most of my classmates, I’ve been retired full time for a while (9 years). I have now lived in San Diego for about 55 years and still love it here. It is an especially good place for golf, which I do fairly frequently (but not all that well) and for bicycling. It is also a great place for scuba diving which I did for many years but have not done for a while. Although San Diego has a great climate, I still like to travel to other places, especially ones that have warm weather and nice beaches. Like a lot of our generation, I have done quite a bit of traveling. When I was in my mid 30's I took four months off work and toured western and eastern Europe and also a little bit of northern Africa. That extended trip also included Greece and the Greek Islands, Turkey, and the British Isles. My wife Carol and I visited some of the same places in Europe on a Mediterranean cruise a few years ago. We've also done a Caribbean cruise, a Baltic cruise, and toured New Zealand, Costa Rica, and Alaska. We've been to Hawaii so many times that my wife doesn't get enthused about going there anymore. I still love it, especially Maui. Probably the most exotic trips have been Tahiti and Bora Bora and French Polynesia - once with my first wife and more recently with my second wife. Probably like many of our generation, my hobbies have changed due to aging. I played basketball and skied for many years and was in Karate for over 20 years. However, bad knees and a hip replaceme...Expand for more