"Behold, how good and pleasant it is when people dwell in unity. " Psalm 133:1

Long post warning...

After the last week, and really the last year, I absolutely needed to join my heart with fellow believers today at St. Luke's just to try to wrap my head around the amount of humankind's inhumanity to one another that is so manifest these days. Since ( Read more... )

After exiting Tombstone, I journeyed on to Las Cruces NM to spend a couple evenings with my friend John and see the area. I can't believe I spent that time with him and never got one photo of him! In any case, we had a great time together as he showed me the historic original part of town, Old Mesilla. The area reminded me a lot of the Old Town ( Read more... )

I reluctantly left Gib and Ben behind to head to Las Crucis, but decided since I was as close as I was, I would head to Tombstone, home of the gunfight at the OK Corral and the historic Boothill Graveyard. The historic downtown area was about as expected - extremely touristy, but I enjoyed strolling around on a relatively uncrowded Monday as there ( Read more... )

Other than visiting Gib and Ben, I wanted to get another National Park under my belt, as well as see the air force plane graveyard located in Tucson. So, my one full day there, I drove the relatively short drive into the desert to Saguaro, including a stop at the Arizona Senora Desert Museum located very near by. It being October, I did not expect ( Read more... )

I reluctantly left Tucson after two wonderful days. If Harley and Lee had not been leaving  the day after I did for their vacation in Montana, I would have stayed longer. However, I hit the road early for Tucson where I planned to visit with my long-time Dallas friend Gib (a fellow Aggie and singing cadet Neil) and his partner Ben. More on them ( Read more... )

After finishing my day at the Grand Canyon, I drove my exhausted ass back to Flagstaff for the evening where I checked into the hotel and immediately went to the hot tub for a much needed soak, then went to the only restaurant nearby that was not an IHOP or fast food, Denny's. I had every intention of being "good" and getting a salad. I did, but ( Read more... )

I again got up with the rising sun to set off on day three of the Route 66 portion of my road trip on September 29. Having a body on Central Time helped me get going a little earlier, and billeyler was nice enough to make sure I was packed away and had left nothing behind. I was looking at about a 4 hour trip to Flagstaff where I hoped I would be able to ( Read more... )

So early Monday morning the 28th I left Michael's before sunrise as he was headed to the office early and I really wanted to hit the road  while there was very little traffic on the road. We went to Starbucks for coffee, I then gassed up the car, and hit the road. I did not get far as Cadillac Ranch is just west of town and the dawn light was too ( Read more... )

I have just finished a multi-day, 3500 mile road trip that took me from Dallas to the Grand Canyon, down through Arizona and to southern NM, then the Davis Mountains in the Trans-Pecos region of Texas, San Antonio and home. I decided to break it down day-by-day and post some reflections and photos ( Read more... )

A few photos I took from this season, some action, and some candid.

My buddy Ron, taking his eye off the ball which did result in a foul that was caught for an out. His coach was happy I shared as he had been chiding Ron about this habit.


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