Robert Springer:  

Life I joined the Air Force in Jan. '64. I was sent to the Defense Language Institute at Syracuse U. for a complete immersion in the Russian language. I was then sent to Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo, TX for technical training. I was sent to Germany for a tour of duty, but before my tour had ended I was recruited by one of the "alphabet soup" government agencies and was transferred to them with the blessing of the USAF and went to Berlin. After I had enjoyed all I could stand with the government, I went into computer programming and systems analysis. I moved to Tampa in '71 and job hopped from Tampa to Orlando, where I met and married Susan Oberender, and finally to Miami Beach. Susan and I quit the rat race in '86 (the rats kept winning), sold all our furniture, the house and the rest of our "stuff". We moved aboard a 35' catamaran and started cruising the Keys, Bahamas, and finally cruised around the Caribbean until '99 when we returned to the U.S. We bought a place and moved ashore in 2000 when HARMONY went into the yard for a major refit. The old girl really needed to be spruced up. The plan was to turn the property into an income producer when we moved back aboard. Unfortunately our plans didn't work out. I resumed working as a computer consultant and Susan went back to dentistry. We took our first cruise,...Expand for more