Hi Rod,Well i like to travel all over Australia,many years ago i traveled over to Western Australia by horse doing a job as a drover of cattle and i saw Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory,and parts of Victoria Australia,i liked that it only took me 6 months to complete i was 17 years old at the time and liking it so much i went and did my "National Service" i like it some what,but nothing to rave about, some of the instructors needed a swift boot in the rear end, after that i joined the NSW Goverment Railways and i stayed at this for 3 years straight with no time off so i applied for annual leave but the head office said that they couldn't see there way clear to let me go off on leave at point in time(i dont know what the law is where you live but in Australia your are intitle to have three /4 weeks leave every 12 months) so we had a few words over this problem ending with me telling them to stick job up their back passage,and i went called into the main office in Sydney took a friendly solicitor with me got all of my pay owing to me holiday pay as well,( left with them saying i would not get work as work was hard to find,i gave the "V" sign to them and left walked out of there one street down the road walked into another building after doing test i had signed myself into the Royal Australian Air Force for six (6) years and i enjoyed it, i had a great chance of seeing the world with this job and the only thing or foreign soil i saw was to "Tasmania",as i had an accident in 1957 a ruined my right hand up for good, i had ripped all tendens and nerves out of four of my fingers and broke my right thumb in five places,not much use now,but in there wisdom in the RAAF they decided that i could not leave the cold climates of the country, so when i eventually finished my time of service they said i would have to stay in the eastern states in future as when they repaired my hand they had had to nylon sinews in my hand,and that i had to be very careful i did'nt burn or otherwise they would shrivel up and the hand would'nt be any good anymore, but went i left them i did everything they said not to do except burn my fingers still time to do that to, i now live in a hot place (no its not hell),as a matter of fact i was in two minds whether or not to sign up for another 13 years as i had my heart set on being a Doctor,but i was informed that with my hand the it was and is i was out of luck, as they would not pass me through the exams with it like that,the 13 years i was going to do was for me to study through them to be a dr,but i loved my time in the armed forces made a lot of good friends and i still have these same friends around although a few passed away, when i finish this letter to you i am going over to Myheritage for families event's and put your Surname on the inter Net and see just what comes up in Norway,then i might put a bug into my cousin over there "Elliot Hanns",by for now Rod see you in the nether.pete