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Canton ohio

whatever is the worse, it can always be worse

I spent some years in the oil/gas industry. Couldn't wait to get out the business of being gone all the time.

Curious how working a rig in Russia worked out.

For a little over a year at Parker Dam (Colorado River) in the Govt housing (1930's build) at the dam, on the Cornholefornia side of the river no less. Hottest day we saw was around 122 in the summer and it actually snowed about a 1/2" in February that year, but that didnt last long. Circa 1984-85.

Thanks guys.

Ft Drag, North Cambodia!

I was there in the summer. LOVELY place

Pusht Rod, Afghanistan.

Hotels/motels. A different one in a different town/city/State every week. Four years worth for the railroad and four more for Time Warner. It sucked.

Moved up to Washington state north of Spokane to live with my cousin Dave and learn how to build log cabins. He lived out in the woods with his girlfriend in a log cabin that they had built.
No running water, he had an outhouse. A stinking sh**thole. No showers. Had a wood stove. Took 1 1/2 hours to make a pot of coffee.
I lived there for 7 months. I did build one log cabin.

Good God I got sick of being dirty and crapping in a stinking shi**thole. Got out and never went back.

Soviet nuclear test site in Kazakhstan. It was only 3 months but I liked 27 months in RVN. better. At least we got to shoot the commies there.


mike r

About 60 miles offshore Caspian Sea on our man made island. Freezing winters and hot summers with a bunch of idiots to manage. On shore Atyrau Kazakhstan was a solid second.

Helicopter shot.



My living quarters on the Schotov, a retire Russian cruise ship.





Tired, home after 28 12's.



Wasn't Texas O&G...

New York state and Massachusetts- by a mile.

Seems there's a strong military nexus here.

Can't say I've ever lived in a horrible place or one that I hated. They all had something good about them. West Berlin was the coolest and most exciting place I've ever lived with none of the crime and urban rot of big American cities. Ft. Lauderdale in the 50's and 60's was a sleepy little city 8 months of the year with great beaches and world class deep sea fishing. Utica, NY had an old European immigrant soul and great food; it was overtaxed and damp and cold in the winter but upstate NY in general was very pretty in a rolling farmland, small village pastoral way plus it had a ton of history all around it.

Mobile Aladamnbama. Most inbred place I’ve ever seen.

Toledo, Ohio

Three years in Louisville. If I never have to go there again I will count myself lucky.

Stateside: Dayton, OH
Abroad: Samarra, Iraq

I was born there - back when they had good water at least.