Some favorite photos.

As I've mentioned before while writing on this blog, I've been spending a lot of time uploading photos to my Flickr site. I've uploaded pictures from both of the road trips that I went on. Here's a couple of my favorite photos from "Road Trip 2002." That was the year we headed west to California. I got home from Junior Camp, had two hours to do laundry, repack, and get back to church for departure.

We headed first to the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, then the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial, followed by church on Sunday morning in Dallas at Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship (Tony Evans' church). From there we headed to San Antonio, El Paso, Phoenix, the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Lake Tahoe, Jackpot, Nevada, Yellowstone National Park, Mount Rushmore and then finally, home, two weeks later. It was an exhausting trip, but I'm looking forward to our five year anniversary road trip in 2007.

We took the photo on the left at the Alamo in San Antonio. Before the trip, we had gone to Impact Center and stolen all of Tommy Lee's beloved bobble heads. We took his prized treasures on our trip and attempted to sell and give them away to people we encountered. We approached a police officer at the Alamo and asked him if he would be willing to hold Mr. T, while we took a picture. We didn't expect him to do it, but to our surprise, he was more than willing. Oh yeah, the Alamo was pretty cool to. But don't ask Michael what he thought of it. He has a couple of choice words to describe it.

The photo on the right was taken on the first night of our trip in St. Louis. We had gotten there a little before midnight and found a couple walking nearby the Arch. We asked them if they would pose for a picture with us holding out the bobble head and we would give them money to hold out ready to make the purchase. Well, they got into it and the guy actually opened up his own wallet and held out a $20 bill. What a big spender. I think he was probably trying to impress his girlfriend.

All in all, we were just amazed at how willing people were to help us in our silly excursions.