Posts from ‘October, 2006’

Mission: To complete the Detroit Free Press Marathon with flying colors. Mission: Completed. Net time 4:34:50! When: October 29, 2006 Where: Detroit, Michigan a.k.a The “D”, Motor City, & Motown Why: As many of you may recall I did this walk across America thing with a program called Steps Across America earlier this year. (Yeah, [...]

It’s been several long weeks of training. Some were definitely harder than others, but my now or never moment has finally arrived. Detroit – I have arrived. Tomorrow is the big race day and I’m excited! It took a bumpy and delayed flight to get here and the wind is certainly fierce, but I’m ready. [...]

Welcome to Nevada! Las Vegas – n : largest city in Nevada; located in southeastern Nevada; originally settled by Mormons but is now famous for entertainment and gambling and general excess, A city of southeast Nevada near the California and Arizona borders. It is a major tourist center known for its casinos. Everywhere I turned [...]

After awhile one starts to wonder if they’re being given too much. For instance my eyes have been blessed with the opportunity to see more National Parks that the average American will see in their lifetime and while they’ve all been absolutely amazing I can’t stop to think if it’s too much for one moment. [...]

Our plans to go check out the Lion King were extremely last minute. We’d just made it into Westminster, CO (an area between Boulder and Denver) a few hours before making the decision to do something in Denver at night. After checking the listings at the Denver Performing Arts Center the answer to what we [...]

Purple Morning Mountains… This morning when I woke up I had one thing on the brain and that was to get my butt out on the road to try to capture a beautiful sunrise on the mountain tops. As much as I wanted to back in further to Yellowstone, I didn’t want to face another [...]

You wanna know where Yellowstone is? I’ll tell you where – out yonder. As beautiful as America’s first and oldest National Park is, it is not close to much of anything and requires up to three days if you really want to see it all. In regards to seeing it all – we didn’t come [...]

The land of brokeback or something I guess… After a very long day of driving (14 hours from Omaha, NE to Jackson, WY) – Richard and I finally made it into Jackson, Wyoming. Can we say “womped!” Boy, am I tired. Richard took the first shift which got us out of Nebraska (nothing really to [...]

Since the weather in Omaha took a turn for the ugly in time came for my long run I decided to fork up my dough and head into the nearby Gold’s Gym. I had 12 miles to do and there was no way I was going to run in on and off drizzle and the [...]

Yup, your very own favorite brown girl with the fro. Thought you knew? I’m notorious for meeting people on the internet. The blessing is that I’ve met nothing, but amazing and hospitable people from the net. If it weren’t for my early days on Black Planet I would have never met Mister Brook D’Leau of [...]