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Tuesday, December 30, 2003

There and Back...A Tale of Christmas Travel

Well, while the season of Christmas is still upon us (and will be until Jan 6-Epiphany) the day itself has come and gone. We spent a good bit of the time around the 25th traveling between southern Alabama and southern North Carolina. The time in Alabama was both good and less so. It was great to spend time with Kathy's sister Bonnie but some lingering malease keep the day itself from being what we had hoped. An important mental health tip here-if some one walks into your home and you start to count the people who didn't make it instead of being thankful for those who did, you need to look into getting counseling or anti-depressant medication or both.

After the holiday itself we headed up to a friend's lake home near Brevard, NC and had a great time of beer drinking, cooking, talking and mountain bike riding. Big Poppa, Capt'n Scotty and I did a 20 mile epic ride through the trails of the DuPont State Forest where Big Poppa showed us the finer points of underwater snorkling while carrying a mountain bike during one crossing of Little Creek. I actually never crashed while the bike was moving which, considering my descending skills and the ruggedness of the downhill terrain, is quite remarkable.

We're home now for the duration of the break. The lovely wife and I, due to all the traveling, have yet to open our Christmas presents to each other. That will happen sometime on New Year's eve. Right now it's a lot of little errand running and downtime here at the Hightower House. This is one of those times when I wish I had cable so I could watch all the College Footgball bowl games and generally veg on the couch. It's probably a good thing I don't though as there actually a deccent number of things I need to get done of the next several days.

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