what’s your happy place?

We are all different. Very different. For that I’d like to say, “Thank you, Jesus!”

Different things make each of us tick. Different things make us happy, sad, hurt, inspired…you get the point.

Today I want to talk about your happy place. And mine. For the sake of the conversation, let’s remove our family as our happy place. That should be a given. At least for me and my life, so we are going to the “next place” that we like to go when we need to recharge, rest, smile, laugh, dream. And all those other much needed releases in order to make life more bearable.

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epoch48 Trip Report: South Fork Colorado

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Our maiden voyage in Gipzee, our 40 foot 5th wheel, was to South Fork Colorado and it was a total success! Zeke, our beast of a truck, pulled the mountain passes like we were on flat ground. The weather was perfect, our campground was top notch, and the local food was amazing! We probably couldn’t have asked for a better experience. In a word, “AWESOME!”.

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the final countdown.

You know that Geico commercial that takes place in a boring, white office lunchroom and some guy is heating up a burrito in the microwave?  For some reason, they thought that the song, The Final Countdown, by Europe, would be an appropriate theme song. For heating up a burrito.

I don’t like that commercial. Ask my kids. As little as we watch TV (no cable in this house), every time that one comes on I cringe.  I might also lament out loud in anguish just so everyone around knows how much I despise the commercial.

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unboxed. or no regrets.

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I’m not sure how much I have in common with Johnny Cash since I never have or ever will meet him, but I believe it’s very little. I can play a guitar. And… That’s probably it. I’m even less sure about how accurate the movie Walk the Line depicted Mr. Cash. I imagine there are some truths, and other “facts” that were “tweaked” to make things more interesting. What I do know is that in the movie, Mr. Cash said something in response to his life that my life speaks to me. Over and over… And like him, what I want to say back is,

Don’t give me no rules. All I got are rules.

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