Category Archives: Travel

Jason’s Yearbook Photos

My buddy Blake Thompson has been inspiring me to keep blogging since around the time “blog” became a word, and his post of old yearbook pictures made me want to make fun of myself publicly. So, here are some fun photos of me through the decades. Because they look the least doctored, I think my [...]

East Texas Burger Company

We are having a fine time at East Texas Burger Company. This has been a regular stop for us for a number of years. Here is a photo of our oldest daughter’s first Gumball (courtesy of a nice patron).
If you have not tried the home-style fries at East Texas Burger Company in Mineola, you are [...]

Flying with Kids

I am sorry Allegiant Air. That is all I can say.

Wordpress iPhone App Test

Testing out the new iPhone App by Wordpress. Hopefully this will create a post with a picture I took with the Wordpress iPhone App.
If it works, we may be doing some good old fashion photo-blogging during our vacation to Texas over the next week.

Getting Robbed in a Foreign Country

I have a former employee at my current church who quit working for us to go on a one-year round the world missions excursion on a bare bones budget. Read his commentary on this trip blog.
The crazy news is that he was robbed at gunpoint in Johannesburg last night and all his possessions were [...]

Swamp Buggy

When mom and dad were over here in West Palm Beach a few weeks back, we went out to the South Florida Shooting Sports gun club where I am a member for some shooting. We took the whole family because Lily just loves to go out and watch me shoot. An incredible storm came up [...]

We Crossed the Florida State Line

After three days of travel, we crossed the Florida line on Friday and stayed in Pensacola Florida in a Howard Johnson Express Inn. Let me say, when they say 2 stars on Hotwire.com, they mean it. Don’t fall for the $57 special. While the room was clean, the area and parking lot were really rough. [...]

What is RAGBRAI?

“What is RAGBRAI” is a question worth answering. I will be riding it at the end of next July. Wikipedia says one thing and the RAGBRAI web site says another, but let me give you my version.
It’s buses and buses and buses of people. It’s the craziest costumes you will hopefully ever see. It’s bike [...]

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