In 1962-1964, when the author was 9 to 11 years old, his family sailed to and lived on Roosevelt Roads Naval Air Station in Puerto Rico. In the book the child describes the exciting trip as well as life on the base in a tropical paradise. Described and depicted are the Hurricane Hunter airplanes, flying fish, hermit crabs, coqui tree frogs, little league baseball, tropical rainstorms and hurricanes. In 2018 the author revisited the Navy base which...