Texas Two Stepping Out of Arizona

We are leaving the State of Cactus and Boredom!  Today is our last day in Arizona.  This bus will be departing in the morning, passing through New Mexico on the way to TEXAS.  Our stay there will be much too brief this go around but what can you do?  Our commitment in New York begins the first of May and we don't want to have to push too hard on the way up since the throes of winter are still clinging in the midwest and east.  Curtis doesn't like to drive in high winds and inclement weather and I don't like to "passenger" in the same.  

Just in the last few days one of the guys from the Lamesa High School class of 1966 (Kim's classmate) passed away.  Johnny never came to Lamesa for one of the infamous Jubilees (big school reunion held every 5 years) but several of us were able to reconnect with him through Facebook just in the last couple of months.  What a shock for all of us!  Johnny was the consummate Texas gentleman.  I had known him since elementary days and we were in many classes together throughout our school days in West Texas.  I never heard him say a bad thing about anyone or any situation and he always had a smile on his face for everyone.  I know his family will miss him greatly and those of us who knew him in Lamesa will miss not being able to see him again.  This sure did give us a moment of pause.  We take our lives for granted and don't enjoy the little things enough.  

I'll post again from Texas in a few days.  Until then hug your families and enjoy this wonderful life that God has given us - warts and all!