No, regrettably. I was looking forward to it, but I'll be in Pittsburgh, PA for the National Narrow Gauge Convention (it's a model railroad thing).

jmarlett@cox.net

My Facebook page was hacked and I could not regain control. In the process of starting a new one I was permanantly removed for sending too many friend requests in a short period of time. You can touch base through my wife's Facbook page: https://www.facebook.com/patty.marlett

June 7

OK, Black, Bryant

Hadley

Until his death, I talked with John Thompson on the phone every week or two. I see Linda Barnes Fiegal occasionally and I bump into Jim Henry from time-to-time.

In 2019 I was diagnosed with an aggressive prostate cancer. I had surgery, radiation, and androgen deprivation therapy. In 2022 a metastatic lesion was found in my L7 vertebra. Radiation treated it effectively, but a new lesion was found in the head of my femur this winter, so the future is less certain than it was. Still, I plan to keep plugging along. We went to Southern Chile in November of 2023 on another wildlife adventure where we saw King Penguins, Lesser Rheas, Guanaco, and Pumas (mountain lions to us Kansans), and Botswana (Africa) in March & April of this year (2024). We hope to make another trip to Australia later this fall. Stateside, this year I've been to Alabama and twice to southern Illinois, once to see the total eclipse (wowie-zowie!) and again to explore "Snake Road" with my youngest son.

My main hobbies these days are photography and model railroading. I have given up trying to build a dragster. I began to suspect I would never get it finished. I'm not really sure about my future and I didn't want to burden my wife with having to dispose of it or its parts. I have enjoyed travel to all 50 U.S. states, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador (including the Galapagos), Brazil, Chile, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Botswana, Australia, New Zealand, and Thailand. The region I have visited most is the Amazon Rain Forest, having been there over a dozen times. If you click the "View Website" in the first section, you can see pictures from some of our travels.

We moved to a different house in Wichita just before I retired. It needed a lot of work, which means I spent a lot of time dealing with home improvement. We still have a few things to do, but we are now mostly in maintenance mode.

I'm beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel on my model railroad. It is a fictitious representation of a narrow gauge railroad in the mountains of Colorado (think of the Durango and Silverton). There still isn't much scenery yet, but I'm working on the last major section of track. That will take a while since it will have a roundhouse and turntable as well as a major yard and industries. I expect it will take a while to get the track all down and functioning. When the whole railroad is finished, it will have over 200ft. of main line serving five towns. It's fun being a railroad tycoon in my old age!

"Finish" my model railroad (they are never really finished).

Keep doing what I am doing.

Persistant, loyal, old

Follow your dreams.