I grew up in the Thousand Oaks / Westlake area since the mid 70's and have rotated all the local gyms and most recently Spectrum. Before the Bay Club acquisition I seriously considered changing to a more modern gym with today's equipment and full services.
The author of the poem was an elderly Texan art dealer named Forrest Fenn. An inveterate raconteur with an infectious chuckle, Fenn was a familiar face in Santa Fe, where heâd lived with his wife, Peggy, since the Seventies.
Forrest joins the army for service in Vietnam, finding new friends called Dan and Bubba, he wins medals, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, starts a ping-pong craze, creates the smiley, writes bumper stickers and songs, donates to people and meets the president several times.