Alice talks about her time at the Kate Cocks Babies Home in Adelaide where she worked as a Nurses aid. For Alice this was a major life experience.
Ruth tells us about her first job with the Olumpic Tyre and Rubbger Co. at the top of Anzac Highway in Adelaide. She travelled to work by bus which was 3/4 hour journey. She was hired as a mail clerk and was required to sort mail into pigeon holes, frank the...
Jill talks about going back to Clare, South Australia, after her education in Adelaide and working in her first job as a Pharmacy Assistant for 2 years. She then moved back to Adelaide and worked as a Clerical Assistant with Clarksons.
Margaret talks about joining the Wren's, her initial training period and her posting to the small village of Eglington. She was a Signal Messenger, delivering messages by car and bike. Her most memorable delivery was to a young man who at the end of the shift refused to sign for the...
Margaret talks about her first job as a handicraft instructor......
Bill spent his early years in Tarlee South Australia and then moved to Adelaide. In this story he recalls life in Adelaide in the early 1930's and especially his first job.
On the road …again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek A is for Afghanistan His urge to visit Afghanistan was precisely as James Michener described in his book "Caravans." That was many years ago and he has forgotten just what Michener said in the book about the incident...
On the road… again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek C for Costa Rica The Switzerland of Central America is known as the country that has the most stable democracy in Latin America. Costa Rica is also a magnet for studies in tropical ecology, whether one is interested...
On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek L is for Lesotho Three days on horseback is just enough time to get the point that not everywhere in Lesotho can be reached by road. Miles of green pastures and not a few shrubby patches of thin soil was...
On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek U is for Uganda The first sight he ever had of a dik-dik was up close, real close. His old E-Mail nickname “DikDik” comes as no coincidence. It was a hint of Africa and a reminder...
On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek To Russia, With Gloves When we think of Siberia, we imagine a cold and desolate place, but nothing shocked him as much as seeing frozen streambeds in the middle of October. Flying over Siberia was as close as...
On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek H is Honduras After getting a small grant to research a few selected teak plantations in Central America, compliments of the Organization for Tropical Studies, the Footloose Forester chose Costa Rica, Panama, and Honduras. The decision was...
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Dominican Republic As a country right next door to Haiti, and occupying about 2/3 of the Island of Hispaniola, the Dominican Republic was also a pleasure in contrasts. The Footloose Forester went there...
On the road …again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek G for Greece Greece was on his bucket list of places to see well before the popular concept of “things to do and things to see before one kicks the bucket” was made into a movie. As a...
On the road…again! Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek M is for Madagascar Madagascar is so puzzling as a nation that even the people who live there generally acknowledge that it would be meaningful to divide up the island into four distinct regions. If one would slice...
On the road… again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Horses and Mules Once in a while making a trip by horseback was preferable to walking, but not always. The Footloose Forester was only a sometimes rider, so never got comfortable enough around horses and mules to...
On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek G is for Ghana Only after Ghana defeated the United States in World Cup soccer in 2006 did it occur to the Footloose Forester that a Ghana story might get somebody’s attention. The name Ghana was tossed around...
On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek T for Thailand Two weeks was the limit for a visa to Thailand, so the Footloose Forester too soon had to leave the vacation atmosphere of Bangkok and seek adventure elsewhere. Vacation, yes, since eating good food everyday and...
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT MEMORANDUM DATE: 1 April 92 REPLY TO ATTN OF: Dick Pellek, REDSO/ESA Natural Resources/Policy Advisor SUBJECT: ...
