JON KELKER:  

(Updated 21 September 2021) Following TFHS I spent summers on a USFS hot shot fire crew, winters on the Sun Valley ski patrol and ski school, spring and fall attending college, a great schedule while it lasted. A subsequent hitch in the Navy, some as a hospital corpsman (medic) with the Marines, earned me a lifetime membership in the Disabled American Veterans. I joined the Navy to see the world but instead I saw the other side of life. Following early retirement from a rewarding three-piece pin-stripe suit career as a budget officer and Nancy's resignation as a finance and procurement specialist, we sold our house in Kansas City, MO, gave all our possessions to our kids and charity, and moved into a 41' diesel motorcoach (Time Bandit) in which we've lived full time on the road since April '97. As of today, our bus/house totals 258,362 miles while towing our Jeep Rubicon (Rubi J). We spend about five months each "winter" parked on our waterfront lot on Long Island (Port Isabel, TX) on the tropical Gulf of Mexico coast just north of the Rio Grande River and travel throughout North America the rest of the year. Our favorite...Expand for more