A Lifetime Adventure

Jack Fritzs memoir-A Lifetime Adventure-is aptly titled. After reading it youll come away wondering how one man could have packed so much living into eight-plus decades.From growing up on the shores of Lake Michigan to living the majority of his life on the shores of Puget Sound Jack checked all the boxes of a life well-lived-including the pretty wife and two kids that are an essential part of the fabled American Dream.After a Huck Finn kind of boyhood that included learning to hunt (animals and fowl as well as pretty maidens) he went to college and was on the football team until a concussion ended his playing career. After college his love of the water led him to enlist in the U.S. Navy which afforded him his first chance to see the world-and he and his buddies took full advantage of the opportunity in the various ports of call.After mustering out of the Navy he-like so many other veterans at the time-went to work for the Boeing Company in Seattle where he applied his education and training in Industrial Engineering in ways that saved the company millions and led to a variety of jobs in the personnel and training fields-from the Washington state capital of Olympia to the oil fields of Alaska with a side trip to Saudi Arabia.While working at Boeing Jack met one Jill Johnson on a ski outing at Stevens Pass. They shared a chairlift ride and-in the words of the fairy tale-Jack and Jill went up the hill . . .-and on to a lifetime of further adventure-together. They took trips to Scandinavia to trace their roots trips to many mountain resorts to fulfill their mutual love of skiing and-in the later years-annual snowbird trips to their Winter home in SaddleBrooke AZ. There they both became champion senior swimmers and enjoyed cycling in the nearby hills-but neither interfered with their obligatory daily Happy Hour either together or with their friends.Jack even shares a couple of health scares he had in later life-all of which hed recovered from as he penned his page-turning assembly of recollections at the ripe old age of 87.This is one mans memoir and its also an inspirational handbook on how to live life to the fullest.