Tuesday, January 04, 2005

New Year, new adventure

We’ve spent three weeks in the New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland area visiting the families and old friends. They are what we miss most being away from here. As much as we’d like to see them all more, living here isn’t an option. My health has steadily declined since arriving and I’m looking forward to being in the Desert Southwest again tomorrow. It’s amazing that the pace of life in a big city like Las Vegas is actually slower than in the suburbs of Philadelphia and Baltimore. People here are stressing themselves into early graves and it seems that they don’t even realize it until their health fails. I’m concerned for the people we care about here.

The New Year promises to hold new adventure. We hope to stay in Henderson awhile and make some money so we can travel again in the summer. We might get to visit California and other areas in the meantime. Letting the tides of life carry us always seems to work best.
Mark and April and their daughter Melanie sit next to Gera
Lexi hugs her snowman
Aunt Laura and Ed
Andy and our Christmas present to him
Drew, Ed, Jake and Matt
Ed rides his new electric scooter in Las Vegas