Arch Patton, It Was 1993, Chapter 29
Nov19

Arch Patton, It Was 1993, Chapter 29

Arch woke up wondering where he was. The cold was penetrating every pore of his body. He shivered awake, sitting up quickly, survival driving adrenalin into his system. And he couldn’t see anything except a thick grayness. He looked down…….

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Arch Patton, It Was 1993, Chapter 28
Nov18

Arch Patton, It Was 1993, Chapter 28

The first thing Arch noticed, again, were the clouds surrounding the very top of the mountain that was the center of the western lobe of the island. They were huge, slowly billowing, and beautiful in the morning light. Good signs for a rigorous hike………

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Arch Patton, It Was 1993, Chapter 27
Nov12

Arch Patton, It Was 1993, Chapter 27

The first thing Arch noticed, while walking up the pier toward downtown Lahaina, was the clouds surrounding the very top of the mountain that was the center of the western lobe of the island. They were huge, slowly billowing, and beautiful in the morning light…..

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Arch Patton, It Was 1993, Chapter 26
Oct31

Arch Patton, It Was 1993, Chapter 26

Doug, the pilot, was wrong about one thing. Arch had traveled the islands very extensively but as a youngster, bumming along aboard his father’s Coast Guard cutter. Maui was an inhospitable island for beaches and for ports. …..

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Arch Patton, It Was 1993, Chapter 25
Oct30

Arch Patton, It Was 1993, Chapter 25

Arch knew that their only hope for surviving getting into Maui, and possibly beyond, lay with the radio operator. They had to have a ‘front’ aboard the Independence, and then some sort of protection when getting off the ship at the port in Maui…..

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