In 2001 I turned 21 years old… I was legal to do anything I wanted to do, go anywhere I wanted to go. Oh yeah, total freedom.
2001 also brought me my love for Alaska. My parent’s took the family on a cruise through the Inside Passage. It was such a phenomenal, even spiritual journey. It was just as they had described but even more beautiful. I will never forget seeing the glaciers calve, walking through the streets of Ketchikan, watching the salmon swim upstream. That beautiful state made every other place I had seen in the world seem dirty and regular. It was nothing in comparison to Alaska. My heart was won over. Someone else’s heart was won over on this trip too… My brother asked Evie to be his wife, and she said yes. It was a wonderful trip.
I’m pretty sure this is the year that we burned Pier 1 in Utica Square down too… Not sure. I’m really bad with dates, so there could be information under one year that belongs in another year. We still were going to see Admiral Twin regularly and you could always find us on Sunday nights at Arnie’s playing shuffle board with a Harp in hand.
Kelly & I seeing Admiral Twin one night... It looks like I was a flipper baby. "It was only a couple of flipper babies!!"
President: George W. Bush
Vice President: Richard Cheney
Population: 281.4 million
Federal spending: $1,864 billion
Federal debt: $5,807 billion
Unemployment: 4.8 %
No. 1 Song the week of February 12, 2001: Ms. Jackson by OutKast
Nobel Prize for Literature: Sir V. S. Naipaul (UK)
Random Facts:
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone opened.
- Terrorists attack United States. Hijackers ram jetliners into twin towers of New York City’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A fourth hijacked plane crashes 80 mi outside of Pittsburgh (Sept. 11). Toll of dead and injured in thousands. Within days, Islamic militant Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda terrorist network are identified as the parties behind the attacks.
- Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh executed.
