Adventures with Chuck – Page 11 – The Chuck Yeager Foundation

Chris Golden – Oak Ridge Boy

By Victoria Yeager / September 9, 2010

Photo by Patty Wagstaff. Fr left to rt: William Lee Golden, Donny Carr (lead guitar), Chuck Yeager, Chris Golden, Chris Nole (keyboard) Chris is the son of William Lee Goldin. He gave K and J a copy of one of his CDs in Oroville where General Yeager introduced the Oak Ridge Boys. When General Yeager got…

Fishing on the Tsiu, Beachcombing on the Pacific, Alaska

By Victoria Yeager / September 9, 2010

The next day, it threatened rain. Many had gone duck hunting. We ate breakfast, put on our gear, got into the cart, and, while I was thinking maybe I’ll stay back and read about Eddie Rickenbacker…it POURED rain. Sigh. We got to the Big Bend where we could see LOTS of fish that had gotten…

Fishing on the Tsiu – First 2 days

By Victoria Yeager / September 8, 2010

We arrived on the spit between the Pacific Ocean and the Tsiu River in the rain by Gooney Bird, the DC 3 -which is always a great ride rain or shine. That afternoon, many went out to fish, including Gen Yeager. I slept and read – really needed it.Gen Yeager came back quite happy – he had caught…

Scraping the Roads

By Victoria Yeager / August 30, 2010

garden, eggplant, scraping roads, tomato sandwiches

No fly day

By Victoria Yeager / August 29, 2010

General Yeager and I planned to eat lunch and then go fly. We did a couple errands after lunch since we were early – plane was booked. When we got to the airport, it was 108 degrees. Wow! Hot! The diamond has a bubble canopy that bakes you and it had been closed for a…