Dick and Kathleen also shared a house in Inverness, California where they kept a sailboat, the Shiksa, with which he took many residents sailing after their grueling tours of duty on the hospital wards.
Dick and Kathleen did not postpone anything they wanted to do, including travel to England, Scotland, France, Spain, Africa and Central and South America, as well as all over the United States.
Dick apparently passed along his love of seeing the world to their daughters Lynn and Sarah, who lived in Argentina for a number of years, where their parents visited a number of times.