Wandering Wahls

We keep thinking we’ve come full circle on this trip, from meeting up with friends from MC’s first assignment, to visiting the friends who introduced the two of us. But, here we are at Travis AFB coming full circle two more times!

We arrived to visit our first “joint” friends from the military (friends we both met after being married). Gary and Bridgette Grabowski are retired AF friends (fighter pilot type and nurse) who we met during our early days at Nellis AFB (after meeting in the O’Club, they promptly “no-noticed” us later that night at our apartment and we’ve been friends, Godparents to kids, etc. ever since). They were also the first people we visited in the RV.

So, here we are at Travis thinking we’ve come full circle yet again. However, we went to church on base and sitting a few pews in front of us are Sonia and David Kuch – the people we bought our car from when we PCSed to Landstuhl, Germany. They’re now stationed at Travis, of all things. What makes this another form of “coming full circle” though is the car they sold us is the one we kept at my brother-in-law’s and ended up being burned to the ground at the local auto repair shop (through no fault of my brother-in-law). They enjoyed hearing that story.

It appears that there are many ways to come full circle. Maybe we should change the phrase to “come full concentric circle.” In any event, it’s a small world out there, especially after a military career.

You spin me right round...Coming full circle!

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