<VV> My Plans for Monday

[Dennis Pleau]

I had driven my Corvair from Davis to Woodland where my brother was playing
Legion Baseball.  It was the last game of the season and they were having
drawings.  One prize was a B&W portable TV which was plugged in and a bunch
of us were huddled around the TV and not paying any attention to the game.

dp

-----Original Message-----
From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
[mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Robert Marlow
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 3:10 PM
To: Virtual Vairs
Subject: <VV> My Plans for Monday

On July 20, 1969, I was riding shotgun in my father's 1964 Greenbrier, 
on a highway in New Jersey known as the Garden State Parkway.  At 4:18 
PM that day, we heard on the car's radio:

"Houston, Tranquility Base here.  The Eagle has landed."

How big a moment was that?  To this day, every time -- and I mean every 
time -- that I drive past the point on the highway where we were when 
this happened, I think of it.  Every time.

Monday will mark 40 years to the day.

Dad's been gone over ten years now.  But I still have his Greenbrier.  
On Monday, at 4:18 PM, with the radio on, I will be driving past -- or 
stopped at -- that very location.

Where you in a Corvair when man first landed on the Moon?

--Bob