Yellow Submarine
Day One Bob and Gwen Willis had just moved to Montgomery from San Antonio Texas where Bob had retired from a career in the military as a Colonel in the Army. Meg, Stephen and I were visiting Mary and George when Bob and Gwen stopped by on their way to Lineville. I hadn't seen them since I was about 5 years old. My most vivid memories of them came from an 8mm home movie of their wedding and some water-skiing footage taken of them on Lake Martin. I had with me a box full of men's French Shriner shoes of all sizes that sold for $5.00 a pair. Bob, George and I were trying on shoes and talking about no matter how ugly they were, you couldn't pass up a deal like that. The conversation drifted to camping and fishing and it wasn't long before I started telling about how much fun Steve and I had on our 3-day fishing/canoeing/camping trip year. After about two milliseconds of arm-twisting, we were making plans for a trip on the first full moon in April. April came around a...