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| Copyright Photo by John Rezell |
Strange how dates are aligning this year — that the 15th anniversary of our driving out of Strawberry Plains, Tennessee on the summer adventure of a lifetime would fall perfectly for a Saturday Morning Blog.
The year 2020 means 15 years ago we found Oregon.
As I've been posting, 20 years ago I enjoyed my final season covering bike racing.
Heck, 30 years ago I dove headfirst into cycling with my first coverage of the Redlands Classic.
If you haven't figured out I'm an old fart yet, I graduated college 40 years ago ...
Today, however, we celebrate the amazing journey chronicled in my memoir You Can't Cook a Dead Crab and Eat It.
It was 2005, and our daughters were finishing first and third grades. Debbie and I were married 14 years before we started a family. We got all the career ME stuff out of the way so we could focus on our family.
I hit the zenith of my journalism career in 2000, when the girls were toddlers. In 2005 they were coming of age. That is, they were hitting the age when they could watch their parents and see the example of how you live life.
We enjoyed a good, yet strangely unfulfilling life in Tennessee. So Debbie and I decided to quit our jobs, sell our house, pack what we couldn't sell in a month-long moving sale into storage, and embark on a quest to find our home for next 12 years until the girls finished high school.
Our motivation was quite simple. We wanted to show our daughters that you can make your life what you want it to be. If it isn't working out, embrace change. Take on adventure.
Today I'll just share one tidbit from the book:
As we rolled out, Taylor blew us away with the wisdom of life through the innocent eyes of a 6-year-old.
"We're like a baby chick, inside an egg, getting ready to hatch out of the shell," she says. "We don't know what the chick will look like. It's just starting."
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| We took a leap and landed with a big splash in Oregon, the girls hitting Dexter Lake in late August. Copyright Photo by John Rezell |
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