Fortieth Birthday, exactly 40 years ago today, flying my Orca flag 1,000 miles off Cape Mendocino, California. I had finished a watch at 8 a.m.; slept until 11; and woke up to a cabin filled with balloons, a half rack of beer and a can of tomato juice (I went on a red beer kick for a while in those days.); and 24 hours off watch. Drank more beer that day than I have in the past five years. To read more about that birthday follow this link and scroll down to October 13: Log of the Midnight Sun Part 2/' xlink:href='%23b'/%3e%3cuse fill='black' filter='url(%23c)' xlink:href='%23b'/%3e%3cpath fill='white' d='M12.162 7.338c.176.123.338.245.338.674 0 .43-.229.604-.474.725a.73.73 0 01.089.546c-.077.344-.392.611-.672.69.121.194.159.385.015.62-.185.295-.346.407-1.058.407H7.5c-.988 0-1.5-.546-1.5-1V7.665c0-1.23 1.467-2.275 1.467-3.13L7.361 3.47c-.005-.065.008-.224.058-.27.08-.079.301-.2.635-.2.218 0 .363.041.534.123.581.277.732.978.732 1.542 0 .271-.414 1.083-.47 1.364 0 0 .867-.192 1.879-.199 1.061-.006 1.749.19 1.749.842 0 .261-.219.523-.316.666zM3.6 7h.8a.6.6 0 01.6.6v3.8a.6.6 0 01-.6.6h-.8a.6.6 0 01-.6-.6V7.6a.6.6 0 01.6-.6z'/%3e%3c/g%3e%3c/svg%3e){kind=small}
And many, many more!
Happy birthday Tim!
Happy birthday, friend. Lots of good memories.
Happy birthday Tim!
And a very happy birthday to my old friend! May your next trip around the sun be your best bet!!
That’s awesome! Happy birthday!
Hope you have a good day!
Happy birthday old friend. That’s a milestone!
Happy day tim
Happy birthday, Tim!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Tim! You will come up with a way to celebrate. I’m sure friends will remember. You have friends In Buffalo too!
Happy Birthday, Tim! Pleased to have met you 45 years ago. Wishing you a fine and lively milestone birthday year!
Have a good one, Tim. It can be a little lonely out here beyond 80. I know I do. But you can feel a little uppity about managing the karma it took to get you here today.
Joe May Love that phrase "out here beyond 80"
Happy Birthday Tim . . .have a grand day!!
Gefeliciteerd !! Congratulationsand Happy Birthday!!
Happy birthday, Tim. I’m sure you’ll figure something out! Go find some delicious cake!
Carole Trombetta Thoresen Settled for a Marie Callender mud pie.
Oh heavens, make me feel old! We were children when we met!
Janine Oros Amon That's part of the secret, face the world with childish wonder.
Happy Happy Birthday Tim!
Happy Birthday Tim!!
Happy birthday mate
Happy Birthday Tim...Have a Great day celebrating YOU !!!
Happy Birthday Orca!
Stacey Smith Mitchell Thank you KBPB
It’s hard to believe I met you 43 years ago!
Happy Birthday!
Donna Fischer Happy birthday
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Hope you had the best birthday ever! Wishing you many more years of peace, happiness and good health. You continue to bring love, laughter and joy to the world. Rock on, keep writing and live every day to the fullest, no matter where you are!
Nikki Klinger I don't think anything can top that one 40 years ago as it marked achievement of three of my life goals, one of which was writing a book: I picked up the first copy of "Last Great Race" when we went through Seattle and I had just finished my third year as a professional boat operator, not to mention I was sailing the big ocean from Alaska to Hawaii. I had only one more of those idealistic goals to reach and I did that three years later when I built that cabin at the East Pole. But this birthday turned out to be pretty darned good, frankly I was overwhelmed by the well wishes, so, thank you.
Thank you, all the people who took the time to wish me well on this monument of a birthday. I was looking for a way to celebrate it and you all gave me one for which I will always be grateful. We too often use superlatives but this one truly fits: I am overwhelmed. My wish for you is that you can experience the same as life goes on. Again, Thank you all. And, onward …
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Libby Riddles Happy Birthday, village time! all the Best!
Tammie Stoops Happy birthday
Louis Tex EdwardsGreat photo (and smile)!
Tim Jones It seemed like the right one for looking forward and racing headlong into your ninth decade.
Louis Tex Edwards Fair winds and following seas!
Tim Jones Hope for the best, prepare for the worst
Louis Tex Edwards Amen!
Tim Hale Happy birthday!
Cheryl FairHappy birthday, Tim!
Timothy Turner Happy Birthday old friend, still cheating death I see.
Rebecca Johnson Nice picture
Michele Longenbach Happy Birthday Tim!
Joe May Did my annual VA physical last week. Was weighed, measured, (and maybe found wanting). Measured only 5' 7 1/2 " where before turning 80 I measured 5' 9" SO, if it seems you must reach "up" for your coffee now, that's it, you're probably condensing a little.
Tim Jones Yeah, I'm down about three inches.
Steve Lindbeck I love that photo, Tim. Happy birthday!