Gordon Preecs:  

Life Flunked out of engineering school and into Viet Nam before getting a Biology degree at Eastern and an MD at Georgetown. Married 49+ years to Connie (Marycliff/Eastern) with 3 good kids and a career as eye surgeon in Juneau, Alaska. Retired in 2013, moved to the Seattle area to be around for my 94 y/o mother. Mom passed away in 2015 after a wonderful life. We recently moved to the Austin area to be near the grandkids and downsize from our former 4 acres of lawn duties. Daughters have both moved to Augusta, Maine where youngest works for the State and oldest has returned to grad school in Public Policy. The daughters amazed us in 2014 when the Alaskan son-in-law went into Kidney failure and the older sister donated her kidney. Remarkable experience, Went well all around. The youngest daughter did a "destination wedding" in Adak, Alaska that was just a joy (very primitive/dystopian) then surprised herself and all of us with a honeymoon pregnancy. Beautiful new granddaughter is the delight of her father in particular since this is a stage of life he really didn't expect to reach before his transplant. We did the U-Haul move of their household from Alaska to Maine during the Covid Spring after they moved in midwinter. Did NOT feel welcome crossing the Canadian border! We've done a fair bit of travel, Did an Asian cruise to start retirement and did a pilgrimage walk from Florence to Rome in Spring of 2017. We did a bit of RV traveling but it just didn't fit for us. Sold the rigs and have settl...Expand for more