Finland Photos

Finland photos. Trying this again. If you’re new here, welcome. If you’re a regular, thanks for coming back.

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Thank you for your patience. I may open a Flickr account to make posting photos easier. I post them on Facebook for Family & Friends, but for the world’s audience, that isn’t practical.
Make it a GREAT day.  It’s up to you.  Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂

Zombie, or just tired?

Totally zombie. Only two other times in my 50 years can I recall being this tired.

The first was driving a Washington State University professor’s pick up truck from Pullman to Seattle, twenty-five years ago.

The professor was relocating and driving his U-Haul moving truck.

We volunteered to drive his pick up, on one condition.  We could throw our two 18-speed Trek touring bicycles in the back.

My wife was a WSU Residence Hall Director for several years.

Upon returning from our cross-state bicycle Honeymoon, we’d have to load our 48 boxes of “stuff” on a shipping truck and then drive our green Mercury Monarch to Orlando.

Before our Honeymoon, we had to be completely packed and moved out of the Coman Hall apartment.  It took all night.

Then, we had a six-hour drive across Washington.  Let me tell you there were some terrific, wide-open spaces.

The kicker, Cheryl could not drive a stick shift at the time.  Otherwise we could have taken turns.

Cheryl loves to tell the story of me howling like a dog, and other assorted crazy things to stay awake.  It was torture. I could not stop.  The professor needed to be in Seattle.  If he only knew….

We made it.  Finally.  Got a great night’s sleep in our tent, and then started our bicycle trip through the San Juan Islands of the Puget Sound, before hitting the North Cascades Highway east, over the Cascade Mountain range, back to Pullman.

I was too poor to give my wife a traditional honeymoon.  So, one year after we were married, we took that cross-state bicycle honeymoon.

It was the best 17-day honeymoon money could buy.  Seriously.  Seventeen days of world-class honeymoon.

The other kicker, even back in 1984, that $200 wasn’t very much money.

Carpe diem, jeff noel 🙂

Not since our Honeymoon

Not since our Honeymoon have I felt this way!

You’re not gonna guess this answer.

No way.

Not in a million years.

Ready?

Tired.

I am flippin’ exhausted.

Same way I felt the day we drove a Washington State University Professor’s sag wagon.

Tell ya the rest later.

For now, it’s rest time.  Carpe sleep, jeff noel  🙂

More Today Than Yesterday?

More today than yesterday?

Yes.

I LOVE my Family more today than yesterday.

That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it!

Carpe diem, jeff noel  🙂

I Love My Family

I Love My Family.

That’s all I can really think of right now, having already written four other posts.

I Love my Family.

My Wife, Son, Mom, Step Mom, In-Laws, Sister, Step Brother, Aunts, Uncle, Cousins, Nieces & their babies, our canine son, and ditto the list on my wife’s side too.

I Love them all.

Some know this more than others.  Such is life.  It’s a big, two-way street.

I’m heading tomorrow to an eight-lane track, in Finland.

The trip is as much about Love as anything I’ve ever done.  Seriously.

Carpe diem, jeff noel, out in Lane 8 🙂