The only exception to my 100% Carroll County stories takes place each Fall when I keep up with ACC Football 🏈🏈🏈 in general and Duke football in particular. Today is opening Day !!!

Β  The age old line of Toto, we are not in Kansas anymore ( Wizard of Oz) is very fitting in regards to the ACC Season opening game being played tonight over in Hawaii. Not a typo, Hawaii.

It’s fitting that Stanford, which is as far away from the Atlantic Coast as you can get on the mainland is heading even further West out into the Pacific Ocean to open the ACC season

Duke opens their season on Thursday night down in Durham versus Elon University so there will be football in the coming days !!!!

Houston, we have a problem…but its not with your 1,2 Baseball punch! Separated by just 23 miles, the Astros and Space Cowboys 🀠 share our Countrys fourth largest city…

23 miles is all that separates Constellation Field, home of the AAA Sugar Land Space Cowboys and the Astros MLB stadium 🏟.

When you finally get ” The Call πŸ“ž ” to the Show ” its a local call. Seattle and Tacoma have a similar situation out in the Pacific Northwest.

Getting to Round Rock, Texas earlier today completed the Class AAA Baseball ⚾️ Loop and the goal now for me is to not create any more Loops !!!

The AAA trek absolutely happened by accident over the years, until the past few weeks. Albuquerque, El Paso, Salt Lake City, Sugar Land and Round Rock were the remaining ones. Easy enough to finish off.

Softball is a more enjoyable watch for me but there’s something about the individualality ( not sure if that’s a real word) of the Baseball parks, at all levels.

MLB, AAA and four of the Class A leagues are among the 100+ ball parks that I’ve attended and each one is different from the previous ones.

Round Rock, home 🏑 of the Nolan Ryan Express.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
El Paso wins the Award for most original ways to feed their Fans !

In a few hours it will be an Early Bird 🐦 flight ✈️ out of Houston, 5am departure might be way to early Bird….

A quick stop βœ‹ over at Duke University and an important trip to The Hill on Thursday morning πŸŒ„.

Cool 😎 Scoreboard, rivals the one they have in Nashville…

Some of the Treks :

ACC Basketball πŸ€ arenas

ACC Football Stadiums 🏟

Major League and AAA Baseball ⚾️

All 41 NCAA Football 🏈 games

61 years of Duke University Football Bowl 🏈 games – easier than you think being there has only been 11.

Every golf β›³ course in the Old Dominon, playing each that I could talk my way on to.

Visiting all 50 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡² States in the same calendar πŸ“… year.

WNBA arenas

Each college in the Commonwealth where Basketball πŸ€ is played.

Proof of that one, which was actually enjoyable !

It’s time to collect the final 7,000 steps πŸšΆβ€β™‚οΈ needed to keep the streak of 20K everyday going so its a great stopping point.