My dad and me at the first house I can remember living in on the north side of Pittsburgh. Taken in 1947

And here is my dad and me at the house where we lived most of my early life. Taken in 1984 as I left Pittsburgh heading home on a 7 week road trip.

What a nerd. Me at my folks house during my senior year of high school in 1964.

US Navy boot camp final day, November 1964.

Old navy buddy, Laurin Boyer, his dog Buck, me and Laurin's truck the day before leaving San Diego for Alaska in August 1971.

Me in a wig with my kids mother, Mona, in Ketchikan in 1976.

My family including brothers-in-law at a reunion in Pittsburgh in 1991.

Me with my kids in 1990 in Homer.

Me and the boys sipping a sample of Irish moonshine (Poteen) that I smuggled out of Ireland. Photo taken in Anchorage in 2005.

Kathy and me at a Hemingway memorial in Salmon, Idaho. It was our first road trip together and it convinced us we were going to make it.

That's Caelin, my grandson who was born in Ketchikan in November, 2005. Holding him is his uncle, my son Cori. Two good O'Toole faces.