The Tucker Stories

Today, the Clan Tucker starts another Grand Adventure by moving back to the United States and me getting ready to retire from the US Army.  We’ve spent the last 1613 days enjoying European living and are really, really looking forward to returning to the US.  Sure, there are things we won’t miss, however, there are just as many things that we will miss.  Regardless, yet another adventure kicks off this weekend and I’m sure that it will be very exciting.  Now, if I could only find a job that does NOT require 6 to 12 month deployments on a rotating basis!!  Who’da thunk that working in the Tool Bin of Home Depot was SOOO demanding??!?!!??

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It took a while but I was finally able to get all of the photos uploaded from our last trip in Europe.  Yup, there are a lot but it truly was an EPIC trip.  I really do hate to admit it but MIUK (Maggie In The UK) was a better trip that MITA08 (details here and here).  Over 9 days we went about 1200 miles driving across Scotland, Ireland and Wales and it was Awesome!!  Here’s an example of just how great the trip was.  Happy Snaps posted and details after the break.

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This was a very, very busy weekend with Matthew graduating from AFNORTH International School on Friday and being presented his Eagle Award on Sunday!!  All in all, not too shabby and my work here is DUN.

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Just a quick note to let ya’ll know that I’ve finally updated the Happy Snaps with a couple really good shots, like Ganimals and PROM!!  ZOMG!!!  I am so…..  Well, you’ll see.

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After much delay, here’s the trip report for our visit to Crete. It was GREAT!! For me, it was one of the hidden secrets of Europe and Crete seemed to be the Hawaii of Europe, though I’m sure there are those who would disagree.  Crete runs a close second to Sorrento as the location we’d fly from the States to see again.  This trip just about covered all of the modes of travel: Planes, trains, automobiles and boats!  Only thing we didn’t ride was animals!  The general plan for the trip was to fly in and out of Athens, take the overnight ferry to Heraklion, drive over to Rethymno and spoke out from there.  Details after the break. Read the rest of this entry »

Matthew has successfully passed his Eagle Board of Review and is just one step away from being an Eagle Scout!!  At the risk of hubris, my “work” as a father is validated with another confirmed Lutheran Eagle Scout son.  Now we have to wait about a month for Matt’s Eagle packet to get approved by the National Boy Scout Committee and then we’ll schedule his Eagle Court of Honor.

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It has been quite some time since my last post and there are a couple of significant events to share with the group.  One is that I’ve gotten my retirement orders and the other is that Matt got accepted to the University of Texas at Dallas!! Read the rest of this entry »

Since the kids had Fall Break this week, Kelly decided that we’d go down to Normandy.  Yeah, I’m a history buff and going to Normandy is right up there with going to Gettysburg.  However, I felt somewhat reluctant and it took me a while to figure why.

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This afternoon, Nyssa was inducted into the National Honor Society.  This is after being in the National Junior Honor Society last two years.  These warm and fuzzy moments are sooo cool for a parent!  Happy snaps are posted here.

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Matt finished his Eagle Scout Leadership Service Project last night and we were tired!  The project wasn’t as physically demanding as Kyle’s project was but the stress of getting this done was HUGE!!  What a relief to get that stress off and he did an excellent job with the whole project.  Pictures posted under Happy Snaps!!

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