Where I Was 40 Years Ago

On the coffee table, I have a large stack of old pictures to scan. The snapshots were taken in India during the summer of 1994. It seemed like a bit too much to attempt this afternoon, so I went in the bedroom and fished through a container with more images. I have vowed to put every single one of my paper photos online this summer. I was reaching for an envelope that felt fairly thin. I didn't know I'd pull out one with only twenty photos.

Interestingly, they were taken during a May, but they were from May 1981. So, the trip these photos represent occurred exactly forty years ago. Forty! When did I get old enough to type a sentence with a number like that? 

We graduated from Keene State that year. KSC was formerly known as a normal school meaning they took in high school graduates and made teachers out of them. Even in the early 1980s, a large proportion of the college body was involved in training for educators. I graduated with these three friends in my program of Elementary Education. We grabbed our 'Bachelors of Science in Education' that month and headed on a road trip to Florida. We figured we could use a vacation. I put six of my twenty images here today.