OH, MORGAN!

JUNIOR MEETING MORGAN AND MIKE

JUNIOR'S GRAND AM FLANKED BY TWO TRANS AMS

MORGAN'S TRANS AM WS6

DIEHARD GATOR FAN

YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING!!!!!

It is 5:55 a.m. and dark out at 52.0 degrees, and calm. Patrick is still in bed.<p> Junior, Patrick and I road tripped our way to Lafayette, Ind. to meet and greet with the drivers from the Spike TV show "Bull Run", a road rally reality show, and to look over their cars. There were four vehicles and five teams there. And more buxom beautiful blondes than I've seen on one place in a long time.

Junior got a Bull Run T-shirt signed by all the drivers and got to meet hot 24 year old Morgan and her Father Mike who ran a WS6 on the show and we suspect might have won (Show is still airing). The show is patterned after the real Bull Run, which is limited to 100 participants and runs from Maine to Florida every year.

Anyway, on the way up we saw a car with a GATORS decal and exchanged chomps and "GoGators" with the driver. And while in Dick's looking at Kayaks, we chatted with another Gator who showed us his Gator Tattoo--(We know each other by our ball caps)

For lunch in Delphi, at a little mom and pop's, we enjoyed the WORLD'S LARGEST BREADED PORK TENDERLOIN, and it was perfect!! Their own breading, and home-made onion rings. And they gave us free cake as it was their one-year anniversary. Waitress showed us a photo of their FOUR POUND hamburger on a huge bun that they baked themselves...

Found a few caches on the way, and hid a few, and met some cachers we knew on the trails. Patrick got his travel bug discovered.

Good Saturday!

From the Patriot Post:

This week’s ‘Alpha Jackass’ award:

“We are going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war.” —Senate Majority Leader Dingey Harry Reid, putting politics first in a time of war.

From the Inbox:

CLASSROOM DESKS

Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies school teacher at Robinson High School
in Little Rock, did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with permission of the school superintendent, the principal and
the building supervisor, she took all of the desks out of the classroom.

The kids came into first period, they walked in, there were no desks.
They obviously looked around and said "Ms. Cothren, where's our desk?"
And she said, "You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn them.

They thought, "Well, maybe it's our grades." "No," she said.

"Maybe it's our behavior." And she told them, "No, it's not even your behavior." And so they came and went in the first period, still no
desks in the classroom.

Second period, same thing, third period. By early afternoon television news crews had gathered in Ms. Cothren's class to find out about this
crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of the classroom. The last period of the day, Martha Cothren gathered her class. They were at this
time sitting on the floor around the sides of the room. And she says, "Throughout the day no one has really understood how you earn the desks
that sit in this classroom ordinarily." She said, "Now I'm going to tell you."

Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it, and as she did 27 U.S. veterans, wearing their uniforms, walked into that
classroom, each one carrying a school desk. And they placed those school desks in rows, and then they stood along the wall. And by the time they
had finished placing those desks, those kids for the first time I think perhaps in their lives understood how they earned those desks.

Martha said, "You don't have to earn those desks. These guys did it for you. They put them out there for you, but it's up to you to sit here
responsibly to learn, to be good students and good citizens, because they paid a price for you to have that desk, and don't ever forget it."

My friend, I think sometimes we forget that the freedoms that we have are freedoms not because of celebrities. The freedoms are
because of ordinary people who did extraordinary things, who loved this country more than life itself, and who not only earned a school desk for
a kid at the Robinson High School in Little Rock, but who earned a seat for you and me to enjoy this great land we call home, this wonderful
nation that we better love enough to protect and preserve with the kind of conservative, solid values and principles that made us a great nation.

"We live in the Land of the Free because of the brave"

Remember our Troops...

GO GATORS!