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a small bit of history
By Ron Kule of Sales Training Services, Inc.
Late in the 1950's our family moved to Bogota, Colombia from Pennsylvania. My mother and my sisters flew down there ahead of my father and my older brother who booked passage from New York City to Panama on the Grace Lines passenger/freighter, Santa Margarita, to bring the family belongings on board in metal trunks.
The night departure was a real adventure for me as I was in my early teen years and already a fan of travel in any form. Even the stormy days riding the gale force wind-blown waves rocking us from leeward to starboard for days, off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the eastern seaboard Atlantic were exciting. While other passengers refused the hearty meals offered, I was rewarded with plenty of food to enjoy! I learned a few tricks with the other 53 passengers, like wetting the tablecloths so the glasses and plates would not slide off the tables, and locking hands and arms together while watching "The Sound of Music" movie...as we slid from one end of a long padded bench to the other - all 30 feet of it - and sang along with the magical music! I learned to survive, too! You see, once when the ship had rolled away from the deck I was about to step out onto, I almost got tossed overboard when the ship suddenly rolled back to me pushing me dangerously close to the railing that was closer to the ocean's white tipped foamy wave tops than I will ever care to be again while off-balance. Only a desperate grasp of a lanyard nearby saved me from getting lost at sea ignominiously. Shaken but alive, I meekly returned to my cabin that evening with a new sense of awe for the ocean and salt on my tongue. The sooty train ride along the humid Panama Canal will forever be etched in my memories, along with the night flight up into the Andes Mountains to Bogota's plateau. We arrived weary but happy to see the rest of the family...and forever changed by the greatest adventure of my life.
Ron Kule writes about many things, including healthy products, significant events, opinions about how to make the economy better, and his own creative writing projects including poetry, short stories, novels and screenplays. Some of these will be available on his upcoming web site, coolartworks.com
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the adventure described is a part of the history of my lifetime.
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