Down and Clear

Our week-long football bowl trip, family excursion and tour of Texas is complete, and the First Lady and I got home Tuesday night around 5:30.

The only bad thing to say is that Ann picked up an ear infection on our first full day in Dallas/Fort Worth, so we had to scale things back just a little bit. We did get the chance to reconnect with some old friends, and in my case, make some new ones.

Obviously, the football game didn't go as we'd hoped. Cowboys Stadium is everything people say. It's incredible. We sat in the end zone, so we didn't have one of the obscenely huge replay boards, but we did have one staring at us (and in turn, us staring at it) when play was at the other end of the field.

Following the game, we flew to El Paso to commemorate my folks' 50th wedding anniversary. Had a great time seeing family, some who lived near and some who traveled from afar, as well as friends I'd not seen in years, and in a few cases, decades.

We flew out Monday and stayed the night in Longview, Texas to watch the Crimson Tide beat LSU, driving the rest of the way yesterday. Total mileage driven and flown is approximately 2,024.

Now, it's back to some semblance of normalcy, as Ann has begun teaching for the spring semester, and I return to work tomorrow.

There were no negatives at all during this trip, and I hope to spend the next little while going in depth into some facets of our trip.