# A 20th Century Adventure


## Pages

- [USS Oriskany](https://1incrediblelife.com/uss-oriskany/): The Oriskany wasn&#8217;t the first ship I was on, but it was one of the most memorable ones. My career in the Navy started in San Diego Naval training center in February 1964. Like everyone else, I became a number for the duration of my basic training. Our vocabulary was, &#8220;Sir, Yes Sir&#8221;. We didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]
- [Seattle 2](https://1incrediblelife.com/seattle-2/): This is what you would see the year after I returned from Brazil. To the right is the 1962 Seattle World&#8217;s Fair. I was there the day it opened &amp; the day it closed. It was an awesome scene. This was my first home after returning to the US. It was an apartment building that [&hellip;]
- [Brazil](https://1incrediblelife.com/brazil/): In January 1958, my mother &amp; I boarded the freighter, Bergitte Torm, bound for Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. It was tied up at a pier in Hoboken, New Jersey. We hadn’t been there before, even though it was near Jersey City where we lived for over a year prior to this. It was the home [&hellip;]
- [Jersey City](https://1incrediblelife.com/jersey-city/): After traveling across country by car, we settled down in Jersey City, to prepare for moving to Brazil. Some of us were better prepared than others. For instance, some had enough money to allow them to obtain a Visa or had a job or promise of a job which also allowed them to get a [&hellip;]
- [Seattle 1](https://1incrediblelife.com/seattle-1/): Seattle was one of the most beautiful cities in the US. It isn’t anymore. I will be showing you &amp; telling you what the “Emerald” city was like when I was growing up. What has happened to it is an utter disgrace but I will always remember it as a very nice place to live. [&hellip;]
- [Gig Harbor](https://1incrediblelife.com/gig-harbor/): Our time in the Gig Harbor area covers roughly 5 years. We were living on a country road, Ray Nash Dr., between Rosedale (@4 miles from Gig Harbor) &amp; Arletta (@6 miles from Gig Harbor). I attended this school in Arletta for 2 years &amp; then Gig Harbor Intermediate for about 3 years. We had [&hellip;]
- [Wilkeson](https://1incrediblelife.com/wilkeson/): We moved from Vaughn to Wilkeson in 1949. It was a very small town, situated in the country, just 7 miles from Mt. Rainier National Park. Just to show you how isolated it was, it was the end of the railroad tracks. There was 1 small community between Wilkeson &amp; Mt. Rainier, by the name [&hellip;]
- [Tacoma](https://1incrediblelife.com/tacoma/): I was born the third of three children to a very loving couple on July 16th, 1942, in Tacoma General Hospital in Washington State. My parents were Guy &amp; Ruth (Lane) Weaver. Guy was 55 &amp; Ruth was 30 when they got married. He had been married before. He didn’t have any children from his [&hellip;]
- [“The Story of Paul Weaver’s Life”](https://1incrediblelife.com/): DEDICATION &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This book is dedicated to my loving mother, who of course, without, I wouldn’t have been born. More importantly though, she instilled in us, a sense of adventure. We learned at an early age that we could do anything that we set our minds to. She brought us up against all odds, literally [&hellip;]


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