Everywhere He Goes
April 2025 | Making Amends | Our Personal Stories

Everywhere He Goes

His love for meetings and sober connection has taken this longtimer places he never dreamed of

I’m 83 years old and I’ve been retired for the past 23 years. Since I got sober in 1984, I’ve been to some great AA meetings around the world. I went diving off the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and got to an AA meeting the very same day. Once I caught a 60-pound king salmon on the Kenai River in Alaska and got to a meeting that day too. I was in Berlin, Germany one time celebrating 15 years of sobriety and I was able to pick up a medallion at a meeting that day.

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