{"id":54267,"date":"2023-08-01T05:12:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T09:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/?p=54267"},"modified":"2023-08-04T03:51:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T07:51:38","slug":"aug-1-23-august-whewie-meet-tim-mcbride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/?p=54267","title":{"rendered":"AUG 1, 23 .. MEET TIM McB"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where is the time going?<\/p>\n

Is time flying? How about this story. It seems like “yesterday”.<\/p>\n

It would have been prior to year 2006, but probably after year 2002, I was in an 8pm Monday night meeting in Royal Oak, Michigan, at The Greater North Woodward group. At my table was a gentleman I had never met. I introduced myself as a visitor from Manley Hot Springs, Alaska. After the meeting he walked up to me, and very casually said to me, “Tell me how to get there and I will drive up to see you.”<\/p>\n

I told him, “Drive North to Fairbanks, Alaska. When in Fairbanks, call my wife for directions.”<\/p>\n

At the time we did not have a cell phone tower in Manley so no one could use cell phones. Many of the year around residents had land lines. My saving grace was a very functional pay phone at the Post Office and I would call Patti at least daily if not several times a day. Patti could also call several of my friends who had land lines. So we were in touch by phone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since it was around 20 or so years ago, I just can’t accurately recall all the details BUT in (what seemed like) a relatively short time, Patti told me that, “Someone named Tim McB called me from Fairbanks wanting to know how to get to Manley.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Either Patti called Tim (sitting in Fairbanks) back or gave me a number and I called Tim.<\/p>\n

And? Voila! All the way from Royal Oak, Michigan, 3,890 miles, Tim showed up in Manley!<\/p>\n

He stayed the rest of the day, overnighted and headed back the next morning for Royal Oak, Michigan, 3,890 miles!<\/p>\n

Crocodile Dundee would exclaim, “THAT Mate, sure is something!”<\/p>\n

Crocodile Dundee would also add, “If Tim McB says he is going to do something, he will move mountains to do it!”<\/p>\n

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Last Friday I got a phone call. “Hi Cap, this is Tim McB. I am down on the Kenai Peninsula. Can I stop in and see you?”<\/p>\n

Monday, July the 31st (yesterday)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

At 6pm, Tim and Patti and I met here in Anchorage at Wendy’s and for an hour and a half we just “visited up a storm”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oh Yes. In the ensuing years after he visited Manley, whenever I was in Royal Oak (Detroit, Michigan) Tim and I would visit.<\/p>\n

Tim and myself.<\/p>\n

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Patti and me.<\/p>\n

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Patti wanted me to include the below photo. She really liked it. I was in our truck and Tim snapped it as we were saying goodbye.<\/p>\n

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Tim YOU really are something!<\/p>\n

Then off Tim headed, going North to Denali National Park and Fairbanks and (with Tim who knows) points beyond. Trust me on this : Tim is a real world traveler.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Your Allies .. Cap and Patti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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