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Tuesday night – day and night


Friends,
    Not sure when my last chance to blog will be. I think I have a day or two more. I’ll keep writing as long as I can. That said, there’s not much I can relate about the last two days other than they’ve been really fun.. and really interesting. The folks around this project seem great.. though we haven’t really gotten a chance to get to know one another yet. That will come in time.   All I have for pictures from my day are the views from my hotel window..





not bad.. but I’m itching to get outside.    I’m getting really excited about this project.. I’m also already really missing my family. It feels different already than a business trip.. I know how long I’ll be away.
   I guess I should stop writing before I say something I shouldn’t . I can’t wait to share the stories from this place.. but that will have
to wait until fall. For now, I’m sending you all my love.  Gnite friends.. Gnite Diance, Max, Gabe I love you.. Love you too Sam
-me

 

Monday night – on my way

Diane ,
   It’s so wonderful to log in and see your blog from the day.. It’s great to see what’s going on at home..It will be a cool way for me to see hat happens while I’m gone. I miss you guys all so much already !..  I love you !

I’m going to try and add a few blogs of my own until they shut us down.. I think I’ll have until Wednesday.. not sure..   Anyway.. here was my day.. I got up this morning.. packed the socks and underwear I’m allowed to bring and got ready to go. Gabe’s off school this week, so he Trevor and Diane left just before I did .. on their way to Sugarbush. (you see in Diane’s post, they ended up at Cole’s instead)

I hugged Gabe and Diane about a hundred times   then kicked them out of the house and finished packing.   It was very hard to let go of them.. and I felt very strange as I watched them drive away..

I’m going to miss my furry family as well

Friend Kathy showed up around 10 to take me to the airport. .. so I petted the dogs one more time, hung up my keys.. and headed out the door..

I was on my way figuratively and literally..

It was an hour or so down to Philly.. then nearly 6 hours to LAX. SOmewhere over Kansas I started wondering what the hell I was doing !…

But then it passed.. I know in my heart that this is a good thing for me to do…   I want to thank all of my family and freinds for supporting me as I do this.. It’s goign to be an interesting ride..

Good nigth folks.. more tomorrow.. Good night, Diane, Max, Gabe.. n d Sam.. I miss you all !
-me

ps. Nearly 500 blog readers tonight !!!  Wow.. Looks like I’ll hit my 200,000 read sometime later this week.

Saturday night – live the life you love


I forgot to write about this yesterday. Yesterday morningI had a vivid dream about Sam.. that doesn’t happen very much for me. He and I were sitting next to each other watching a movie. The movie was about the project I’m about to take on..  He gave me a big smile and told me that he thought it was cool and was proud of me for doing it. I remember patting him on the kneee. then I woke up.   I felt so good …

TOday was a really nice and peacedful day.. which is what I needed after this past hectic week. Gabe had a snowboard competition at Sugarbush. Diane and I took an hour and a half energetic snowshoe while we were waiting for Gabe’s runs. The snow was beutiful and very deep.. It was over my knees in many places.  Diane found this tree with natural snow ‘ornaments’ on it.. We put a Samstoen on top


I pushed my poles into the snow to show the depth.. and made a pumpkin face.. or radioactive symbol.. you choose.

On the way back to the car I was suprised to see this bumber sticker.. The funny thing is .. I saw this same sticker yesterday.. and thought it was talking to me… but I didn’t have a camera… so here it was finding me today !  Pretty funnty !

And… what’s more.. it was on a car with the Greatful Dead’s Europe 72 guy on it.. (the Cohn-head).. My very first record albunm.. OK.. maybe not that significant.. but I liked it.

We went up and wathed gabe.. His runs were very good. It was fun watching him and his cronies work the park. It was a beutiful day to be outside watching ..

WAfter the competition, we dropped gabe at the mountain and came hoem and worked around the house. I had a bunch of repairs to make before I dissapear.. Then Diane and I went to  Barnes and noble for me to ‘study’.. I skimmed every wilderness survival and inventing book in the store.. I didn’t learn much which was either good or bad.. we’ll see..

OK. I see my batteries are low.. Gotta send this before they go.. Tomorrow, Gabe and I finish attaching skies to a broken wheelchair to use for the Bolton pond  skimming event.. which I’m going to miss.. .. I’m goign to miss many things these next couple of months.. but I’m goign to have a balst.. I’m pretty sure..

OK.. That’s all for now.. Gnite all. Gnite Sam !
-me

ps. My mom sent me this quote from Mark Twain ..It spoke to meP

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do then by the ones you did.  So throw off the bowline, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore.  Dream. Discover.”