The drive

Driving through the dessert can be wearisome, fatiguing and all the things that you dread in a long drive. Not this trip, it was the new beginning, I was on my way to find myself. I had 14 hours to contemplate the reasons I was doing this. My friends said I was nuts, family said I was stupid. Let's see, nuts and stupid, um, O.K. I guess everyone has their own opinion. Its not really …

…a lecture on the way life deals cards and all that stuff , you know the stuff parents tells their kids when they think they are making a big mistake. Sacramento here I come. The mourning I left was a nice March day.. A nice day to start a new life in a new town. A nice March day to take a drive in the dessert. A nice day to vow never to drink tequila again.