{"id":126,"date":"2020-05-14T15:33:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T22:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streaming2nps.com\/?page_id=126"},"modified":"2026-01-03T06:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:54:06","slug":"about-mark-gail","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/streaming2nps.com\/?page_id=126","title":{"rendered":"About Mark &#038; Gail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"color:#0b4506\" class=\"has-inline-color\">History<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong><span style=\"color:#fe0505\" class=\"has-inline-color\">RPI Class of &#8217;75<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"569\" height=\"319\" src=\"https:\/\/streaming2nps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2000-06-03-RPI-Reunion-Saturday-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-343\" style=\"width:288px;height:162px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/streaming2nps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2000-06-03-RPI-Reunion-Saturday-6.jpg 569w, https:\/\/streaming2nps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2000-06-03-RPI-Reunion-Saturday-6-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bill&#8217;s picture of Tommy, Mark &amp; Gail at 25th Reunion Lunch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>We met at our <strong>25th College Reunion<\/strong>, at <strong><span style=\"color:#fa110a\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute<\/span><\/strong> (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpi.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RPI<\/a><\/strong>), in Troy, NY, in June, 2000. <strong><span style=\"color:#fa110a\" class=\"has-inline-color\"> <\/span><\/strong>We met at the Class Parade, had lunch together (with Mark&#8217;s RSE Brother Tommy and &#8220;Good Things Happen When Bill&#8217;s Around&#8221; friend Bill-C),  and then spent the afternoon with Bill, in downtown Troy.  We hit it off, and discovered we had something in common, so became &#8220;<em>Divorce Buddies<\/em>&#8220;.  Make that &#8220;<em>Bi-Coastal Divorce Buddies<\/em>&#8220;, as Mark lived on the Jersey Shore and Gail lived outside Seattle.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#2f00a3\"><strong><span style=\"color:#2f00a3\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Divorce Buddies &#8211;&gt; Couple<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>A year+ later, on Mark&#8217;s first visit to Seattle, we realized we weren&#8217;t going to be just friends. The rest is history&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A <strong><span style=\"color:#2f00a3\" class=\"has-inline-color\">decade<\/span><\/strong> as a &#8220;<em>Bi-Coastal Couple<\/em>&#8220;&#8230;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A growing mutual interest in visiting National Parks, Civil War Sites, MLB Stadiums, Lighthouses, WWII Submarines&#8230; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A mutual love of <a href=\"https:\/\/streaming2nps.com\/?cat=12\" rel=\"nofollow\">Road Trips<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Transition <strong><span style=\"color:#2f00a3\" class=\"has-inline-color\">away<\/span><\/strong> from being &#8220;<em>Bi-Coastal<\/em>&#8221;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/streaming2nps.com\/?p=1402\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gail&#8217;s Retirement<\/a> in October 2011 and &#8220;part-time&#8221; move to NJ<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/streaming2nps.com\/?p=1413\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mark&#8217;s Retirement<\/a> the end of 2013 and more time to travel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mark&#8217;s selling of the Jersey Shore house in August 2018 and &#8220;official&#8221; move to Washington (via a <a href=\"https:\/\/streaming2nps.com\/?p=1602\" rel=\"nofollow\">X-Country Airstream Trip<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong><span style=\"color:#1d6a06\" class=\"has-inline-color\">National Park Sites<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking back, we realize that we visited our <strong><span style=\"color:#f9062b\" class=\"has-inline-color\">1st 4<\/span><\/strong> <strong><span style=\"color:#1d6a06\" class=\"has-inline-color\">National Park Sites<\/span><\/strong>, the 1st few times we got together!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>September 2000 &#8211; <em><strong>Meet me in St. Louis<\/strong><\/em>, before we had dinner together on business trips there, we walked under <strong><span style=\"color:#1d6a06\" class=\"has-inline-color\">The Arch<\/span><\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/sway.cloud.microsoft\/QGobJ4ZsWThxyjDS?ref=Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Gateway Arch National Park<\/a>).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>April 2001 &#8211; Gail visited Mark for a long weekend on Manasquan Beach. On a day trip to NYC we stopped at <strong><span style=\"color:#1d6a06\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Ellis Island<\/span><\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/sway.cloud.microsoft\/mPd0RvBjEA7ZxCQu?ref=Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">National Parks of New York<\/a>).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>July 2001 &#8211; Mark visited Gail for a week vacation in the NW. We visited the <strong><span style=\"color:#1d6a06\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Klondike Museum<\/span><\/strong> in Seattle, and camped at Kalaloch in <strong><span style=\"color:#1d6a06\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Olympic National Park<\/span><\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/sway.cloud.microsoft\/7duxh92P0vJO9xC9?ref=Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Olympic National Park<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#034e6e\"><strong><span style=\"color:#0b6084\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Taking Trips &#8211;&gt; Life on the Road<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The dream of <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#034e6e\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Life on the Road<\/mark><\/strong> started with\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#034e6e\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>LOVING<\/strong><\/mark> our many <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#034e6e\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>Road Trips<\/strong><\/mark>:   <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#034e6e\" class=\"has-inline-color\">5<\/mark><\/strong> X-Country Trips in Gail&#8217;s Prius;  lots of Civil War Trips to Virginia, Tennessee &amp; Mississippi; East Coast;  West Coast; and more.  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#034e6e\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Not liking<\/mark><\/strong> schlepping suitcases in-an-out of hotels and not being able to Cook on the Road.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#0b6084\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Dream Took Flight<\/mark><\/strong>, with\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>HOURS\/YEARS spent at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colonialairstream.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Colonial Airstream<\/em><\/a><\/strong> in NJ:  sitting in different models, measuring, planning, and finally buying <strong><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#a1bcf7\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Lizzy<\/mark><\/em><\/strong>&#8230;Thank You Patrick!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Other hours with Mark poring over Chevrolet Truck Specs, comparing them to Airstream Towing requirements and finally buying <strong><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#c10707\" class=\"has-inline-color\">The Beast<\/mark><\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In 2017 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/streaming2nps.com\/?p=81\">We Did It!<\/a><\/strong> &#8230;that&#8217;s when we did the actual procurement of <strong><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#c10707\" class=\"has-inline-color\">The Beast<\/mark><\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#a1bcf7\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Lizzy<\/mark><\/em><\/strong> and took our first <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#0b6084\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Airstream Trip<\/mark><\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And don&#8217;t forget the <a href=\"https:\/\/streaming2nps.com\/?page_id=620\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spreadsheets<\/a>! with that growing list of places to visit&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/streaming2nps.com\/?page_id=6136\">National Parks<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/streaming2nps.com\/?page_id=6277\">Lighthouses<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/streaming2nps.com\/?page_id=1481\">MLB Baseball Stadiums<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/streaming2nps.com\/?page_id=12583\">State Capitol Tours<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/streaming2nps.com\/?page_id=6619\">WWII Submarines<\/a>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>September 2019 we transitioned from <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#a1bcf7\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Trips with <\/mark><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#a1bcf7\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Lizzy<\/mark><\/em><\/strong> to <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#a1bcf7\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Life on the Road with <\/mark><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#a1bcf7\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Lizzy<\/mark><\/em><\/strong>&#8230;until <a href=\"https:\/\/streaming2nps.com\/?p=421\" rel=\"nofollow\">Covid-19<\/a>, mid-March 2020. After isolating in Arizona, we hightailed it home the end of April.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>From May 2020 to December 2022, we were mostly home (with Gail&#8217;s daughter Alyson), taking occasional local trips mostly to the Oregon Coast, Columbia River, and Olympic Peninsula. Frequency and length increased, until we took a 2 month trip through the High Plains &amp; Rockies, to our 49th State (Colorado) and back.  Then&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>January 2023, we got back to <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#a1bcf7\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Life on the Road with <\/mark><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#a1bcf7\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Lizzy<\/mark><\/em><\/strong>, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/streaming2nps.com\/?page_id=7950\">intent<\/a> to keep it up for at least a couple more years! And we got married at the end of the year. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As of January 2026, we expect we have a few more years on the road\/travelling.  There will be more, like our trip to Alaska (e.g. Hawaii), that will be done sans <strong><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#a1bcf7\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Lizzy<\/mark><\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"color:#0b4506\" class=\"has-inline-color\">&#8220;Mission&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our &#8220;mission&#8221; is to explore the country, traveling first in <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#c10707\" class=\"has-inline-color\">The Beast<\/mark><\/strong>, as of mid-2025 in <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#c10707\" class=\"has-inline-color\">The Brute<\/mark><\/strong>, living in <strong><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#a1bcf7\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Lizzy<\/mark><\/em><\/strong>, aiming to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Visit every <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#1d6a06\" class=\"has-inline-color\">National Park Site<\/mark><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tour every <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#046969\" class=\"has-inline-color\">State Capitol<\/mark><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See a game at every <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#0a4277\" class=\"has-inline-color\">MLB Stadium<\/mark><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The list of &#8220;places to visit&#8221; suggests the routes we take and places we stay, but does not limit where we go. And some trips are, and will not be, &#8220;<strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#a1bcf7\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Streaming<\/mark><\/strong>&#8220;, e.g. our July 2025 month in Alaska.  We will be doing more traveling sans <strong><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#a1bcf7\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Lizzy<\/mark><\/em><\/strong> in the next few years&#8230;like Hawaii, Virgin Islands &amp; Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam (all for National Parks), Australia &amp; New Zealand, Italy, Great Britain, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"color:#0b4506\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Trivia<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#6a0202\"><strong>We have a few &#8220;weird&#8221; things in common<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We&#8217;re both the oldest of 5, in families with 1 girl &amp; 4 boys (and we&#8217;re only 4 months apart in age)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Both sets of parents married in the fall of 1952, and stayed married ~60 years, till Death Did They Part (and both are together again.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Both our High School colors were <strong><span style=\"color:#fe6e06\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Orange<\/span><\/strong> &amp; <strong>Black<\/strong> (but different mascots&#8230;Donora  Dragons and Prouty Panthers).  <br>(<strong>And<\/strong>, strangely enough, those are also the colors of Mark&#8217;s Fraternity, <span style=\"color:#fe6e06\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Rensselaer Society of Engineers<\/span> (<span style=\"color:#fe6e06\" class=\"has-inline-color\">RSE<\/span>)!!!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We both chose to attend <strong><span style=\"color:#f9062b\" class=\"has-inline-color\">RPI<\/span><\/strong>, when we went on our campus visit and it <em><strong>just felt right<\/strong><\/em>, even though, before that, we each thought we were going somewhere else.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#6a0202\"><strong>We also have a few other odd things in Parallel<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><span style=\"color:#6a0202\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Mark<\/span><\/strong> grew up in the house<br><span style=\"color:#6a0202\" class=\"has-inline-color\"> <strong>his mother<\/strong><\/span><strong> <\/strong>grew up in, in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><span style=\"color:#6a0202\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Gail<\/span><\/strong> grew up in the house <br><strong><span style=\"color:#6a0202\" class=\"has-inline-color\">her father<\/span><\/strong>grew up in, in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/donoraboro.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"717\" src=\"https:\/\/streaming2nps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/donoa-1024x717.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-647\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Donora, PA on the Monongahela River, south of Pittsburgh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Home town of <strong><span style=\"color:#6a0202\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Baseball Greats<\/span><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stan the Man Musial<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ken Griffey Sr.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ken Griffey Jr.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Home of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/g.co\/kgs\/2dvgq6\" target=\"_blank\">1948 Donora Smog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trivia&#8230;Mark&#8217;s Mom went to school 2 years behind Stan Musial, Mark was 2 years behind Griffey Sr<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastbrookfieldma.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/streaming2nps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/east_brookfield-e1591206824552.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/streaming2nps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/east_brookfield-e1591206824552.jpg 500w, https:\/\/streaming2nps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/east_brookfield-e1591206824552-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">East Brookfield, MA, on Lake Lashaway, 3 towns west of Worcester (&#8220;Wuhstah&#8221;)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Home town of <strong><span style=\"color:#6a0202\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Baseball Great<\/span><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cornelius McGillicuddy, <br>better known as Connie Mack <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Baby town of Massachusetts (100 in 2020)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stupid trivia&#8230;Gail&#8217;s 2nd grade teacher lived in Connie Mack&#8217;s old house<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History RPI Class of &#8217;75 We met at our 25th College Reunion, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), in Troy, NY, in June, 2000. 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