09-17-2011, 08:47 AM

Originally Posted by baggss

As the old Chinese saying goes, "May you live in interesting times"...I think we got there.

That's more of an ancient Chinese curse

10-13-2011, 01:39 AM

I was frantic for months prior to 9/11 feeling as if I had to "get away with my kids". I put everything I owned in storage, gave notice to my landlord that I was moving "anywhere else but here", bought an 8 man tent, fishing poles, generator, and little fishing trailer. The dog and the kids and I headed to Yosemite (we live in northern California). We found a place to camp for free on the fire-trails outside of Yosemite's west gate. My oldest son turned 15 years old the first day we were there, September 5th. The place we were staying was glorious. I finally felt relieved for some reason. I felt calmer away from the city. The river was running right by our campsite, there were other people but we didn't see them often. The moon was so big every night. The kids and I bathed in the running river waters and fished for our diners. I prayed every morning, thanking God/Universe for the beauty of it all.
The kids and I had grown used to driving to the nearest rv park and small town for supplies, about 10 or 15 miles from our little sanctuary. I decided to stay at the rv campground, renting a trailer for a night of soft beds and clean, warm showers on 9/10. We had not had tv for weeks. I turned on the tv the morning of 9/11 and the news was horrifying. Why had this happened? The internal pain I felt was excruciating. My 2 youngest children were almost 5 and 3. I turned off the tv, returned to our river-side campsite and began the difficult task of "explaining these things and why they happen" to my children.

10-13-2011, 07:50 AM

The week before the attack I was on vacation in New York, we returned on a Saturday and the attack was on a Tuesday if I'm not mistaken. I remember we went up on the top of one of the towers on Thursday the week before. It was pretty scary thinking that we might as well could have been up there. We were actually supposed to go the week that it happened, but the tickets that we wanted were sold out, so we went a week earlier, luckily for us.

I went back to New York last month, and were there for the 10th year anniversary. It was amazing to be back, really love that city!