Blog 3739 – 10.20.2025
Let’s Go On Adventures Together
I found the little plaque pictured today in Nebraska on my last six month away from home work-assignment before I retired. The bicycle reminded me of a bike that we got my wife when our son was born. Her’s was not an actual bicycle built for two, but an added child seat attached over the rear fender made it a bicycle built for one and a half. The three of us, the two of them and I on my bike, had lots of biking adventures in our neighborhood and beyond.
When I retired from my day job in December of 2021 I had hoped that my wife and I would pull an RV camper all around the country seeing places where we had never been and revisiting a few that we had. I had stayed in a 20 foot long pull behind camper that I purchased in Wyoming on my first long away from home work-assignment in 2012. My wife drove up from Houston a couple of times to spend a couple of weeks with me, which began a tradition that had the two of us sharing adventures together additionally in Colorado, Alabama, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Nebraska. I hoped that tradition would continue with many road trips together.
Alas, in February of 2022 after just one long road trip to South Carolina and back without a camper, yet with my wife’s mother on the trip back to stay with us and Linda’s sister awhile, Linda had some issues that changed our plans. Last year I bought some timber acreage in Bon Wier, Texas about a three hour drive north east of Houston in the East Texas Piney Woods very near the Louisiana state line. Actually the closest little town with a Dollar General store is in Merryville, Louisiana about six miles away.
I bought the property to help my son realize his dream of owning a hundred acre wood. A few months later I bought another tract of adjacent timber land and I expect to close on a smaller adjacent homestead tract in a few days. That will bring our total acreage, his and mine to within about four acres of “our” shared One Hundred Acre Wood dream – just like Winnie the Pooh, Christopher Robin, and the gang.
For the better part of 2025 I drove over to the property every week to spend a few hours preparing a campsite hoping to put an RV Camper on it an then bring my wife here so we could share adventures together much as we had planned just modified a little. This week we drove up on Sunday and hope to stay through Thursday. That will be our longest adventure away from our home in Houston since January of 2022. Our stay may be cut short if I need to be back in Houston to close on the homestead site, but I have learned to be a little more flexible. And important skill especially if you really want to enjoy and get the most out of these adventures in time and space that we call our lives.
I repeat a quote from the Unitarians that I like a lot, “Life is meant to be good.” And then I add a Jackie Gleason line to it, “How Sweet It Is!”
Your friend and fellow traveler,
David James White
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