Category: OneofUs.Care

Being there’s no plane on Sunday, let’s see where a $5.00 adventure might lead us….Destination : Miami and a different type of Trifecta!!!

Fort Lauderdale Station 🚉 is the starting point for the trek. Being that I parked the rental car 🚗 there, the day will end there as well.

The No Plane reference is to the fact that I arrived ahead of my son and three granddaughters. So I have a day to fill and thus an adventure to create !

The first step was to purchase a $5.00 ticket 🎟 and head south towards Miami…

I will add to the post 📫 as the day plays out…

The Miami Marlins are hosting the San Francisco Giants today, and it’s 4 for $44 Day. Maybe that is stop ✋️ #1????

It would appear that the stop to take is the Metrorail Transfer, where you switch over ( same ticket still works) for the ride to downtown.

1:40 1st Pitch

Yeah, that’s the ticket 🎟 !!!

Music 🎶 is our friend 🧡

Free Hat 👒 for all Father’s ! Need proof for Lin that I didn’t buy another hat.

Miami,

I love ❤️ what you’ve done with the place ! The Marlins were still playing at a football stadium when I made my stop ✋️ on the Poor Man’s MLB Loop.

So say this is a serious upgrade doesn’t due it justice. Just the retractable roof

Nice touch with the visiting teams lineup
1st Pitch – spot on 1:40! 89° outside, nice inside !
It’s turns out that there is some type of watch party 🥳 just 2 miles away….

Bottom 2nd, Kyle Stowers just launched a rocket 🚀, Marlins leading 1-0.

Touch them all !!!

2:10 – end of 2nd inning, 1-0

They are getting ready out in Omaha for Game 2 between the Heels and the Sooners. UNC must win in order to keep playing ball.

Giants with a two out rally in the top of the third, tying the game.

Marlins scratch one out in the bottom of the 4th inning, lead 2-1

Stop ✋️ #2 – Baymont Park for the FIFA ⚽️ FANFESTIVAL!

Belgium 🇧🇪 versus Iran 🇮🇷

There is no charge for admission

The backdrop

NO GOAL, Iran was offsides

UNC just tied OklahomaI at 2-2 !

1st half dehydration break – 3:30

UNC leads 3-2

First Final Score :

Marlins 2, Giants 1

Check out the Game Time (2:14)

Crowd 18, 749

4:30 pm – Iran 🇮🇷 Belgium 🇧🇪 still nil-nil in the 65th minute.

Carolina now leads 4-2, [Bottom 5th] looking to play again tomorrow !

2nd final score !

7th inning stretch, Tar Heels 6-2 !!!

A metro 🚇 train 🚆, a connector train and now a free chartered Bus 🚌!

Heels now in the 8th….still 6-2.

Winner 🏆 takes the crown 👑 tomorrow

The Bus 🚌 has stopped ✋️at some type of loud sporting event ???

Kevin just put the biscuit in the basket 🧺 and things got REAL up in here!

Hydration break on the Pitch…

Uruguay leads in shots in goal, 7-1 , yet trail 1-0.

43:05 of the first half, we have the equalizer for Uruguay 🇺🇾!

Sliding header
Extra time nets a go ahead goal…

Direct kick from just outside the box 📦 was blocked 🚫 by a dedicated Uruguay 🇺🇾 player in the 59th minute.

Right after that, we have our second equalizer of the match !!! 2-2 with just under 30 to play ▶️

Four goals = pandemonium

2nd half water 💧 break after a waved off goal, still 2-2 [7:39]

64,003 is the announced crowd for today.

Uruguay 🇺🇾 with a flurry as we enter the final 5:00 of regulation.

Game winning direct kick sails ⛵️ high over the net.

Marion Harris shares great news about the Women’s World 🌎 Cup in 2031. Some of those matches will be played on American soil.

8:00 have been added in stoppage time ⏲️.

Crunch Time !!!

Final minute……..8:03 pm

We have a 2-2 draw……

8:16 – back on the chartered bus 🚌, which has Air Conditioning !!!!

8:42 – back at the train 🚆 station 🚉 for the ride back to my car 🚗.

Just heard from Vickey Ritchie, and she has sent me the 411 on our Special Olympics Basketball 🏀 practice today ! That will be a self-standing post 📫 here in a bit…

Need to go North for four exits, then back to the Condo.

9:19 – All Aboard the Choo Choo !

Big WIN for Kelsey and Company !

12-3-7 for a stat line !

That concludes the 12 hour adventure !

Perfect sign off : Happy Birthday 🎂 to Madison !!!

Trying hard to chase down as many of the 8 Ferry ⛴️ routes operated by the great State of North Carolina

While I have zero desire to ever own a boat 🚢, my favorite place to be is always on a Ferry Boat ! Son of a Son of a Sailor, I went out on the sea 🌊 for adventure is the opening line of the song 🎵 and today will include #3, #4, and #5 of the eight.

Ferry ⛴️ boats are like people in that they come in many different shapes and sizes with many different destinations.

The one right above me was Ship #3, and the one up top is the one that I’m currently on going from Swan Quarer to Ocracoke. We sailed ⛵️ at 1:30 pm and will be on the water for quite some time!

Welcome 🙏 to another week of attempts to lift the spirits of others ! We kick things off with a pair of Bible Verses. One from a friend of our program and one who probably doesn’t know that the program exists.

Travis Osborne and his Bible Verse of the Day !

Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

Thank you, Brother Osborne and Pastor Joel !

Let’s see 👀 what we can get done today !

Have a Blessed Day 🙌

Howard Mayo and his Motovational Nugget for the Day !

Let’s call 📞 this one : Connecting the dots between Mark Messier, Pappy Meade, World Cup Soccer ⚽️ and going the distance !

McDonald’s is using their marketing tools 🔧to promote the current World Cup, and anyone who reads my stuff knows that I’m a sucker for marketing! The Cup shown above came from the local McDonald’s this morning 🌄.

Now that UNC has finished off West Virginia in the college World Series, a quick flip of the channels takes us to Game 6 of the Stanley Cup finals. Note – it’s a great day to be a fan of teams from Carolina as the Hurricanes 🌀 are 20 minutes away from clinching the Cup over Las Vegas.

Back in 1994, before the National Hockey 🏒 League was still very, very affordable, and when you are raising small children without much money 💰, affordable is an Awesome thing !!!

Our three younger children grew up on Vancouver Canucks hockey. We could cross the Border and watch a game and return home for less than what one ticket costs today.

Pavel Bure and Trevor Linden were two of the stars 🌟 for our home team, and in 1994, we were ready for a serious run at winning Lord Stanley’s Cup.

Lin and I were able to attend at least one game in each round of the playoffs, right up until we faced the New York Rangers in the finals. To this day, I am still convinced that the finals that year were one of the greatest of All-Time. Mark Messier guaranteed the New York Rangers would end their drought by winning game six and seven.

It’s worth noting 📝 that another New York team just now ended a historic drought. The photo 📸 above of Messier holding the Cup still stings a bit, even today. Mess is in the middle of the coverage in the other pic up top.

We knew that we could see a Finals involving the Canucks sometime soon. Then we signed Mess as a free agent, and it was going to happen REAL SOON ! His Canucks Captains jersey is the only authentic one of the 40 in my closet.

Fast forward 17 years and the Canucks finally made it back into the Cup Finals and this time it was against one of the other Glorious teams, the Boston Bruins.

One night, after working all night, I drove from Luray, Virginia, to the parking lot of the Boston Garden. Slept in the car 🚗, woke up, and had $400.00 in my pocket. To this day, it’s the only time I spent ” real $$$” to attend any sporting event. If $400 didn’t get me in, I would be watching from a sports bar across the parking lot.

Bobby Orr was in the building, and the atmosphere was beyond description. It’s the most amazing place I can remember being involved in, and 15 years later, it still is. Boston won the game and the Cup days later, but I drove back to Luray with no regrets.

Bill ” Pappy ” Meade is the third brother that I never had and for days after the game, Pappy was still trying hard to console me about traveling all that way just to watch my team lose the game.

No matter how hard I tried to convince Pappy that I also lived in the Boston area twice and sometimes the event was greater than the outcome. I never got him to see the magnitude of the game or what it meant to me.

It’s time to bring this full circle 🔵 as Carolina just added an empty net goal, and the Cup is going to the Tar Heel state !

Here in a few days, my long-time and dear friend, Pappy, is going to board a flight ✈️ with his adult sons, Will and Tim. The trio is flying out to San Francisco and will be attending the Australia 🇦🇺 versus Paraguay 🇵🇾 World Cup match.

This trip makes me smile for a number of reasons. While I couldn’t convince Pappy what being in the arena for a Stanley Cup finals game back in the day, I fully understand what this trip will mean to Pappy.

Funny thing, Pappy, I know that you felt bad because you felt my team lost that day in the Garden. I laugh because at least I had a team in the game… Australia 🇦🇺 and Paraguay, really ? You either get it, or you don’t. The World 🌎 Cup is like the biggest thing in the world for 75% of the population.

I couldn’t be happier for my friend and his family, and I hope they have the trip of a lifetime !!!

Going the distance means different things to different people, and when you have a passion, you should chase it whenever you can.

Being that Carolina just won the Cup, this pic seems appropriate !