kpont adventures and contemplations The Best Part A perfect spring morning brought along the beauty of life and hope as we piled in the Honda and drove south. It misted ever so slightly, stopped, and eventually gave way to warm, gentle sunshine. Traffic was light on the way down from Mt. Pleasant and the City of Alma was either nearly vacant or most of the residents were sleeping in. I suppose that’s to be expected before nine o’clock on a Saturday morning. We walked into a quiet building on the college cam
We had arrived about twenty-five minutes before the start time, surprising the lead examiner a little with our early arrival. He welcomed us and had us start on the paperwork as the rest of the exam team arrived, all of them seeming to be cheerful and glad to have people testing. Two more examinees showed up, rules were given, and we started.
My lovely wife and my four brothers present passed the Tech exam. One of my brothers passed all three exams in one sitting, going from unlicensed to Amateur Extra. I teased him after the testing that he went from “zero to hero”. Everyone at the test site was quite impressed. I also passed the Extra test.