One thing's for sure, the only nightmare that I ever remember having (I know that I had others, but this one I remember in detail) was at Big Bear. The dream was that some robbers came to our cabin and were interrogating me, trying to get me to tell them where Mom's purse, the wellspring of all wealth, was. Of course I resisted telling them, and when they left me to go find it, I ran and hid it (or something like that). The scary part about it was that the dream took place in the very cabin that we were staying in, so when I woke up I still was afraid that the robbers would come back.
The other thing I remember is that the cabin was an A-frame – I'm not sure that this is true, it just sticks in my mind for some reason. Also, I have a memory of getting bows-and-arrows (with suction-cup ends) and shooting them at some cardboard target outside (though this could have been a Rouge River memory)...
So what do you all remember, if anything?
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Was I ever at Big Bear
I thought that was the tall clock tower in the middle of England
Yeah, I think you would have been pretty young. We have pictures of me you and Matt on some couch in the cabin (though that could have been the cabin where we played High Mountain Rangers!
If I am remembering correctly, Big Bear was where we watched Nickelodeon...Mr. Wizard and Turkey Television. It's also where we went to a mini zoo and saw a skunk and bobcat in cages and wow Ben...High Mountain Ranger!! That brings back some great memories.
Matt
We went to Big Bear when Pop came home from his first long deployment, so Nate and older would have been there. This was before we had the camper--that was initiated with the Oregon trip.
We stayed in an A-frame cabin at Big Bear, from the loft of which you could see the TV at night after you had been put to bed. There was a very nice little zoo in town with specimins of local animals that had been injured and were rehabilitated there. That was the High Mountain Rangers base, and the cable TV source of the shows Matt remembers, too.
I remember pressing Pop to take leave as soon as he came home from overseas--it was his first six-month deployment. I didn't listen to his reasons for needing to work the first few weeks back--helping others cope with their readjustments This became a source of contention with his senior officers--all because I insisted rather than allowing him to lead. I didn't learn that lesson perfectly--or rather haven't apply perfectly what I learned from that experience, but it has been easier for me to follow Pop's leading throuugh difficult times because of that incident.
yea...i don't remember!
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