Over the years I have endeavored to offer an encouraging and hopefully useful word as a new year arrives. In trying to organize and make sense of the things I want to achieve and how I want to organize myself…
A Poem
When you were younger I rode the ride with you. We are both older now, so You can ride the ride by yourself. I will be just outside the gate, watching, As I have grown weary Of motion sickness.
Red Buds in Raleigh, Spring 2014
I think that the red bud trees were prettier this year than any time I can remember. There may be some debate about whether this observation is objectively true, or a subconscious correlation to the fact that they bloomed after…
Great Arizona Adventure 2014 – Day 6
22 Apr 2014 – Sedona, AZ – Raleigh, NC For the last time, we availed ourselves of the fantastic breakfast that comes with the place we rented, and were on the road by 830ish. One of the things on Jack’s…
Great Arizona Adventure 2014 – Day 5
21 April 2013 Sedona, AZ 20 phone pictures from this day Today was the day we biked, which was the big thing on my trip bucket list. I had booked all this in advance. We arrived at the bike shop…
Great Arizona Adventure 2014 – Day 4
20 April 2014 Grand Canyon, AZ – 65 photos from this day It’s hard to get a straight answer about how long it takes to get from Sedona to the Grand Canyon. I think the reason is that there are…
Great Arizona Adventure 2014 – Day 3
19 April 2014 Sedona, AZ – 68 pictures from today They day was beautiful, which was a mild surprise considering some of the forecasts we saw. After breakfast I checked out the brook behind our villa, which is the famous…
Great Arizona Adventure 2014 – Day 1
17 April 2014 Raleigh, NC to Sedona, AZ – We took a morning flight combo to Phoenix and were out of the house successfully by 6:45a. We changed in St. Louis and arrived in Phoenix with no trouble. In Phoenix…
Great Arizona Adventure 2014 – Day 2
18 April 2014 Sedona, AZ – The day was overcast when we woke up. After Thursday I had gotten it into my head that we wouldn’t see any clouds on the trip. [all photos link below] After breakfast, we checked…
Our Carbon Monoxide Alarm Went Off
(I had better get this posted while it still has a smidge of relevance…) As a kid I saw a movie about a bank heist, and that set-up was this: The vault had six different alarm systems; and the bad…