Thanks to my friends and family...

We had a wonderful day yesterday at Ranchito Cielo Azul (the Kemsley southern homebase). Ten of us gathered to finish prepping the feast and around a table in the front room to eat. Joe P said a blessing and we went around the table giving one thing each we were grateful for. Then we tucked into a beautiful feast of thanksgiving...

A good meal with lots of laughter and sharing and a good time had by all. If you weren't with us there, I wish you were....another day perhaps you will be and for now just know that our love went out to you wherever you are...

Great blessings as we go out from here....

MWB

Happy Thanksgiving....

I was thinking about the Thanksgiving holiday and how it affects some of my friends and need to say that I am finding that the less I allow the past or even ideas to rule me, the freer I am to BE HERE NOW.

I want to wish you all a great day and I hope you stop and try to make just one person smile today...even yourself.....you are loved by those you don't even know....

Blessings abound in the Universe and we can all claim some by passing them on.....

Happy Thanksgiving...

MWB

For some reason I don't understand, my blog page no longer has the little strip across the top that lets me go to the places where I can make a post, do housekeeping with the blog, etc....frustrating and it must be something I did since it still appears on my other computer, the nettie. Weird but not unusual since my computer literacy is at the level I usually can get into trouble but not get out without help. I would have said that it is at  third grade level but in this day and age third graders may well be way beyond me....LOL

So today I will enjoy immensely since my wife and mom-in-law and good friend Jim C are here and I can just hang out...after the morning Men's 11th step meeting I so enjoy, we will all head down to the Arrey café for breakfast and a blast of New Mexico's finest red chile and then Mom will be filling the house with her pie baking smells...egads, heaven on earth....apples from Kit's tree in Durango made into Mom's pies!!!!!

With the really moderate weather now the mineral bath is getting a workout these days...I take one nearly daily and Jim has and now Kit.....Moms prefers cooler water so too bad for her.

Jim has bought the canned ham trailer and now has his own southern home in TorC...in our yard! He has been a great and close friend for nearly 30 years and I love it when he comes to be here with us. We have traveled a bunch of the world together with him and he bought the land next to us in Alaska and lived there until we sold out and headed south. Ordinarily these days he is in Alaska or in Hawaii when not traveling. A great friend indeed.....

So that's it for now, I am trying to get comfy with posting more often and if it is trivial and mundane (as a friend likes to say...filled with minutiae)...sorry but that is my life many days...trivial and mundane, but the job is to stay present in it and if you like to visit...cool beans...if not, I trust you will give it a skip...

Hugs to all...
MWB with two less wheels...

Thanksgiving....stop, look and be grateful!

I wonder why people who talk non-stop and completely monopolize the rap, invariably say, "Oh I love to travel and meet people and learn about them!!! LOL! Amazing!

I am getting ready for a houseful of folks over the Thanksgiving holiday. I just got a call from friend Jim from AK/HI that he is on schedule for the morning picking up in Las Cruces.... Kit and her mom will be down Tuesday and then a bunch for dinner on Thursday...

Excellent....very big fun coming up!

I'll say it now so I don't have to remember: I hope your holiday is one that you can be grateful for. I know mine is, as well as my amazing life on this spaceship...earth....

Peace,
MWB

Oh man, I don't like the feeling of not having my van in the yard...she's back now and fixed but whoa....weird!

Part of it is not having the van itself, but a lot of my personal stuff resides in her and when she is not handy, neither is my stuff...

I had my sidecar rig and my tiddler and bicycle so I was not going to be immobile but I feel like my van is a part of me.

That is why I take such good care of her, she is faithful and dependable but I need to do my part of keeping her in good running shape....

Happy traveling...

MWB....

Well old Chinookie goes in this morning for the last of the mechanical things for now. She gets a rear brake cylinder leak fixed and a checking and replacing the rear brake shoes if needed....

She is getting antsy for some travel....um, wait...that's me that is getting antsy...

My traveling genes need to be recognized once again.....

Travel well and smile,
ManyWheelsBri and Blue Sky Expeditions

Relief.....is just a click away...

I quit the last forum I was on and the relief is palpable!

I finally realized I was way too attached to what was said, and my role in it all....

Pesky EGO!

I feel much more present and able to be here for the people in my F2F life. Amazing how distractions can seem so important when what is really important is in being here now.

Nothing that profound but it needed doing....and I am here!

I am getting ready for having some family...especially my bride...and friends here in TorC for Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday...not because of some early pilgrim drama but because I love it when gratitude is talked about so much and I can break bread with those close to me. 

Some of my Amerind friends hate it and I don't really blame them, but all that very real and terrible history aside, I do like the harvest festival/thanks-for-my-life-and-all-in-it....event...

Also readying the van for some vanliving this winter, maybe Mexico, maybe not...but some nice desert camping and traveling.

Nothing promised but I will make the effort to keep up my blog...I am so inspired by some of the bloggers that I follow....George & Tioga who posts every day...Glenn with To Simplify who is also a daily blogger...

I try to remain apolitical on here but I think I can say that I am greatly relieved to have the political season over with and my president is back to being a president and not a politician...I hope he keeps his head on straight and continues to do right by the 99% and not so much the 1%.

Blessings to all and a very good and healthy holiday to you....

ManyWheelsbri