European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday february 10, 1990 the stars and stripes Paga 9 Over Here love struck Seagull hops across Europe b Gary Miller suit writer Naples Nlaly Enlinda Granger s pockets con Lam inc same sons of things most european travellers carry. But mixed in with the pfennig francs Kroner and lire Are a Lew fragments of Concrete. They re my pieces of the Berlin she said smiling the shards Are some of the few souvenirs she s allowed herself during a Siv month. Shoestring budget trip around Europe As one of a dying Breed of women called seagulls. Seagulls Are the wives or in Granger s Case the Girlfriend of Navy men who follow inc Fleet from port to port. While flocks of seagulls followed ship throughout the Mediterranean in the 60s and 70s. Granger was alone As she Pur sued the combat stores ship san Diego. Her Fiance. I Elty officer 2nd class Sieve Rogers an electronic warfare technician thought Granger s plan to Trail his ship on $600 a month and a eur ail pass was a pipe he knew he w As wrong when he saw her on the pier at the san Diego s first port of Call. Naval station Rota. Spam. I was really Rogers said. Iwas also Ama cd she was there and glad she was since then. Granger has Only twice missed meeting the san Diego on it arrival Al More than a do in ports throughout Europe. In both cases the ship docked Early. The san Diego s port visits were As incl As an hour or two in some cases or As Long As a week or More. Rogers took leave while the ship was in port a Trieste. Italy during the Holiday sea son. During the san Diego s briefer port visits the two explored whatever Civ the ship was visiting. Sometimes when Rogers had duty. Granger visited him aboard the san Diego. Finding affordable lodging proved to be one of her biggest challenges. The guide Book i had listed hotels. That Cost $15 to $25 a the resident of Williamsburg. A. Said. Thai was Way More than i could of because her $470 eur ail pass entitled her to two months of unlimited travel she Rode night Grams. Combining transport Wanh lodging at one Point in the trip she spent is consecutive Dayson trains. Before she began using the rail pass. Granger spent a month in spam follow ing the san Diego from port to port on buses and air planes i be kept a running talk of the types of transportation i be used on the she said. I be Ridden 89 trains three planes. 27 cars. 26 subways 46 buses. 10 taxis. Six boats and terries and no Sas Gary Mitler Gllinda Granger says she and Petty officer 2nd class Steve Rogers know each other better thanks to her porn to port trek. said the former promotions director for a Williamsburg radio station. During the weeks i was constantly using the trains. I had the schedule in my � for one eight Day stretch she Rod her hotel on rails from Barcelona. Spain to Paris to Copenhagen Den Mark then Down to Strasbourg. France and Vienna. Austria. It was during one of Granger s Marathon train rides that the Berlin Wall came Down and three Days later she visited the once divided City for eight hours. I Don t keep up on International events so i did t think being in Berlin at thai time would affect she said. But it really moved Granger found the celebrations and conversations Wuh East germans who were experiencing Freedom Lor the first time so exciting that she had to share her thoughts with her family. So she took a night Tram to France because she understood that Calls to the United states were cheaper there than in West germans1. During her travels. Granger also found out that sometimes she did t need Money at All provided of course that she had an american Zippo lighter. A Zippo lighter costing $5 in the slates can sell for As much As $45 in France or As Granger discovered can be traded for a hotel room. Other popular barter items were ship Ball Caps. "1 always made sure i had a couple when i was she said. She traded the Caps for such things As taxi rides. Sometimes it took More than cur Rency of any kind to survive. Granger s last $40 was stolen in Madrid. She look the train to Rota and called the red Cross. Volunteer Barbara Bennison Lei grander stay Al her Home until the san Dii go pulled in three Days later and Granger could More funds from Rogers. Granger made other friends on the Road. The morale welfare and recreation office in Palma on the Spanish is land of Majorca helped Granger find a room there for $10 a Ghl and a family to stay with in Malaga. Spain. When she arrived in Naples in Early january the Uso there referred her tothe naval support activity family service Center. They hooked me up with a family through their ind a room Granger said. I stayed with . Dave Price and his fam Price family treated Granger Well. Being Able to stay with English speaking people and watch american television things she had done Little of in Ali acc months made her Tim with the prices especially enjoyable she . Granger will have plenty of americans to Chat with. She left Naples for Spain in late january and will re turn to the untied sales in mid february. The san Diego will Clurn to its Home port. Norfolk. A. A few Days and Rogers plan to marry in april but Granger said they know each of her much better thanks to her experience As a the six month she said our relationship has gone through 10 years of British scouts door opened to girls London a breaking Wilh an 80-year tradition and a warning in the first boy scout manual that girls can lower a Man s innate the British boys group has opened its doors to the other sex. The decision announced thursday by chief scout Garth Morrison prompted criticism from the girl guides the boy scouts sister movement. A scout spokesman thursday said there were 680.000 British scouts and there had been a lot of pressure from girls eager to join attracted by the More adventurous activities. Morrison announced local Seoul groups would Beable to choose whether to admit girls noting that some want nothing to do with no group would be forced to have Ihm. He said. We arc aware Hal in some places there is a press ing need for it. And we Are anxious to meet that need. It is an Impo Nani move and a move in the right direct Morrison said. Morrison an sex Royal Navy lieutenant said the scout movement would be opened to girls age 6 to 15. With the first girl scouts probably enrolled in 1991. The boy scouts of America movement has allowed girls age 6 to 15 in its explorer division for about 19 years according to National spokesman Lee Sneath. Or. June Paterson Brown. Chief commissioner of the British girl guides association said she was very angry when she Learned of the decision. I Hope we Are big enough to say Hal if the souls want this it s their decision. Ii they iry to poach our girls then it will make things very she said. The two groups had just finished a two year joint study on greater cooperation. The head of the guides who count Queen Elizabeth ii As their most famous sex member added they Are out of step. Youth services in general have gone Lul Circle and now generally tend to favor single sex activity lord Baden Powell the founder of the boy scouts developed Many of his ideas about scouting from his experiences in the Boer War and originally envisaged the group As a surveillance Force to keep watch on enemy Baden Powell founded the scouts he allowed girls to he had difficulty communicating with women and preferred the company of boys and men. It had always been his intention that the souls would before boys and biographer Timothy Jeal told the times of London. It was Only an edwardian outcry against the coarsening effect anal such a thing Wouldhave on genteel Young ladies that forced him to aban Don the times said eight girls had come in uniform to the first National scout rally in 1910. Baden Powell reportedly turned to his sister. Agnes and said. Do something about them will the girl guides were founded two months himself always had doubts about the effect of the female of the species on the psyche of the developing male. In his 190s founding manual. Scouting for he wrote a loud vulgar girl could lower a Man s innate
