Gibraltar Monkey by Tojosan, on Flickr

Liberty call can be pizza and a beer or sitting on the beach in Bermuda. There’s times you’ve likely spent an evening in the bar but I think climbing the Rock of Gibraltar was a highlight for me.

What’s your favorite or most interesting liberty call?

The photo, while on liberty at Gibraltar, includes one of the scary monkeys.  Word was the monkeys were very aggressive and disease ridden. Note how we carefully steered clear of them. Of course, they said the same thing about the British soldiers stationed there.

Sharing these memories with friends and family is fun, and often times met by looks of disbelief. Life outside the States and after months at sea can be dang unusual or crazy.

Got a favorite liberty memory? Care to recall it for us? How about one your spouse shared with you?

For this go round, be sure to keep the language PG.

Going subsurface Navy makes on think you’ll not have those long gaps between port calls. Boy was I a fool. Our shortest underway periods were as short as a couple of day, up or down the coast, but woah, the longest was too long.

Few things were quite as exciting as pulling into port, any port. Heck, I was happy enough to pull into port for a few hours to load stores. That few hours of daylight was worth the heavy lifting.

My longest underway was about 89 or 90 consecutive days. On a sub you begin to think they outside world is full of ominous clouds and action music. (um, one too many movies?)

What about you? Months? Weeks? Just a few hours with your spouse? Do a quick tour of the bay with your son?