Transfer to Santa Maria, California.

In 1956, Kerry was two, Schlumberger transferred me from Ventura to Santa Maria. It was exciting. Santa Maria was a one truck location and I was in charge. I can remember the coastal fog on Highway 101 between the two cities that I drove a lot before we got moved. I can remember driving at 2 in the morning where I could barely see the hood ornament. But I  wanted to get home so I drove.

It was an interesting place for me to work. I had spent four years in San Luis Obispo going to school at Cal Poly. During the war I spent months there taking training at Moro Bay. I met the famous Jacqueline Lois Ireton in San Luis Obispo. I had taken Army basic training at Camp Cooke. Camp Cooke is now the Vandenburg Air Field.

I logged wells in the Guadalupe San Dunes for Union Oil. The Dunes were a few miles from the office in Santa Maria. On some wells we logged the logging truck was almost parked in the ocean. I wrote a letter to my boss that if oil went to $5 a barrel that Union Oil would drill some wells. How much is oil now? (over one hundred dollars a barrel)