<VV> My Plans for Monday

[mike hicks]

I was 10 and living on Guam (dad was in the Air Force).  I had to listen
to it on the radio because the one TV station on Guam didn't come on
until later in the day.  I had my ears right up against the speakers and
my eyes closed so I could better imagine it.  Man. 

No Corvairs in my life at the time but I was bopping around in my dad's
'63 VW bus. 



> / On July 20, 1969, I was riding shotgun in my father's 1964
> Greenbrier,
/>/ on a highway in New Jersey known as the Garden State Parkway.  At 4:18
/>/ PM that day, we heard on the car's radio:
/>/
/>/ "Houston, Tranquility Base here.  The Eagle has landed."
/>/
/>/ How big a moment was that?  To this day, every time -- and I mean every
/>/ time -- that I drive past the point on the highway where we were when
/>/ this happened, I think of it.  Every time.
/>/
/>/ Monday will mark 40 years to the day.
/>/
/>/ Dad's been gone over ten years now.  But I still have his Greenbrier.
/>/ On Monday, at 4:18 PM, with the radio on, I will be driving past -- or
/>/ stopped at -- that very location.
/>/
/>/ Where you in a Corvair when man first landed on the Moon?
/>/
/>/ --Bob
/