Here’s the new FJ Cruiser that Erin bought me for Christmas. I was driving along the drainage ditch out front and veered to close to the edge. Fortunately for me, I was able to get unstuck without getting my feet dirty!

We tent camped this weekend at Julia Pfeiffer Burns S.P. in Big Sur. It was pretty foggy all weekend. Not too much to report on. We camped with Megan, Frank, Patrick, Katherine, Lane (4 months old), and Lisa. Lane might be the most well-behaved baby I’ve ever met. He smiled all weekend!

Only in GA and AL (I hope!) could the state governors be stupid and absurd enough to ask citizens to pray for rain!

ABC news story

Wow, maybe we can pray for world peace, an end to poverty and hunger, and new cars for everyone while we’re at it!

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
~ Mark Twain