The Saturday that falls in mid-December marks the beginning of the ever changing Bowl 🥣 Season. Start to finish it covers four weeks with the Saturdays being the busiest. Saturday December 16, 2023 is no different as Bowls are being played in six different cities and not being played in one Island Paradise (Bahamas).
Here is the link to the start of the journey.
https://wordpress.com/post/aroundthevalleyin60days.blog/28965
We pick the story up now at 40,000+ feet as we fly on the maiden voyage for Alaska Airlines from Nassau, Bahamas 🇧🇸 to Los Angeles, California. We were greated with two gifts 🎁 each and realized that there were 18 passengers on a plane built for 186.
We are very familiar with Alaska Air from our decades on the West Coast but I’m not sure how many people will choose to take a 6 hour flight ✈️ from LA to an Island without said Island being one of the Hawaiian Islands?
Enjoying the ride as much as possible being this is as close to having a private Jet as I might ever get. Myrtle Beach ⛱ slid into the vacated 11am slot and a very talented Ohio University team is whopping up on a 6-6 Georgia Southern. The lead grew to 27-0 before the Sun Belt Conference representative started to mount a comeback.
2,525 miles is a Long Way but the Gronk LA Bowl 🥣 (new name this year as Gronk replaced Jimmy Kimberly as the sponsor is the only 12/16 Bowl 🥣 I haven’t experienced. It’s played inside So-Fi Stadium 🏟 is a magnificent facility that I am truly looking forward to experiencing !
We have our first final score !
It will be interesting to see how the 12 (out of 14) Sun Belt teams fare in their Bowl 🥣 Games. James Madison University, Appalachian State University and Troy are talented but many of the other nine went 6-6.
Appy (8-5) received a tough driaw in Miami of Ohio (9-3).
Final approach into LAX – 2 hours ➕ before Kickoff. Will be back once again in my Birth State, back amongst my homies but not really.
Jacksonville State and Louisiana are late in the third with JSU retaking the lead, 24-21
Final #2 of the Day !
How’bout them Eers !
The coolest Stadium 🏟 I had never been in before today !
Opening Day is in the Books 📚
So-Fi Stadium 🏟 was everything I thought it might be and then some!
The Dog 🐕 that ran out to pick up the kicking Tee after each kickoff was Lin’s favorite part of the evening so the little photo 📷 that you can’t quite tell what is, that would be the Pup.
No Bowl games on Sunday so there’s plenty of time to worry about Charlotte on Monday.
32,780 – attendance for the LA Bowl 🥣… 00,000 in the Bahamas 🇧🇸 Bowl and a mixture in between.
It will be a long night for the workers at the Stadium 🏟 to get it cleaned up and ready for the Rams game on Sunday.
Sometimes when you’re on the Road you stay at a Hotel 🏨. But Saturday night 🌙 we stayed in a bit of History in Downtown Los Angeles at the Biltmore!
Dozens of Movies 🎥 and numerous TV shows have been filmed here over the decades and the hallways are lined with pictures 📷 from the movies
Two of my favorites are older movies – Eddie Murphy stayed here in the 1984 Beverly Hills Cop 👮♂️ and in the original Ghost 👻 Busters when the team burst into a fancy Hotel 🏨 to capture Slimer for the first time it was also here at the Biltmore. Coming here from the LA Bowl 🥣… it was safe to say that we were under dressed by comparison.
Some of the Photos 📷 hanging on the 5th floor of the Biltmore
Right outside our Room – Taylor Swift recorded one of her videos here.
Oceans 11 had scenes here
Austin Powers, Baby !
Details
Who you gonna call 📞? GhostBusters
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With the Hotel 🏨 in the rear view mirror its off to Nevada, which will be our 🏡 base for the next 10 Days as we use the World 🌎’s busiest Airport (LAS) for a number of Flights ✈️. The trip includes Mountains, desert 🏜 and critters of all sorts. Plus Route 66 runs 🏃♂️ through this part of California. Now I have that song 🎵 in my head.
Been fortunate enough to experience Route 66 from Chicago to Cali, so much History!!
How far ?
2,448 miles long !
The next time you find yourself on Ghost 👻 Town Road in Yermo, California you need to stop ✋ and see / eat at Peggy Sue’s 50’s Diner !
A place that will take you back !
Peggy Sue knew some folks !
I think those Four had a nice ride !
Look at how young Steve Martin was in that Photo 📷
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While we know that the assignment is 11 College Football 🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈 (11) we wanted to add what we call 📞 a Crazy Eight. It’s 8 side items that get added that you have to balance out the Football. Here you Go:
- 8 Planet Fitness Visits
- 8 trips to Starbucks
- 8 Women’s College Basketball 🏀 Games
- 8 people we know to have our paths cross with
- 8 States to Visit
- 8 Unique places to stop ✋ / stay that we can share
- 8 people that we can share the link with that care enough to follow .
- 8 Different Airlines to get us where we need to go!
Next Stop ✋ – Baker, California
Population -600 earthlings and some Aliens 👽. Also the Gateway to Death Valley, the M Desert 🏜 and the World’s Largest Outdoor Thermometer 🌡. The highest temperature ever recorded was here at 134°
Across the street
We Will Not Harm You !
At least I hope that was his message
Spooky
They’re everywhere
We escaped !
Now, its State #5 !
Thanks for your kindnes, So Cali !
Cactus 🌵🌵🌵🌵
Visitors #2, #3 !
Family 👪 Tradition to pose with the Horse 🐎 Statue….
Day #5 of 23 is in the Books 📚!
Tomorrow is the Fake Bahamas 🇧🇸 Bowl 🥣 on the Campus of UNC-C
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Welcome 🙏 to Day #6 :
The focus today will be on the pop-up Famous Toastery Bowl 🥣 in Charlotte, North Carolina and the intrigue about how it came to be and what the future is for both the Bahamas 🇧🇸 Bowl 🥣 and its last minute replacement.
The Bowl 🥣 game trek is about three things for me. #1 – The Stadium 🏟 the game is being played in, #2 – The City its being held in, #3 – The game itself.
This one is tough because its the Fake Bahamas 🇧🇸 Bowl 🥣. There’s no history to it and there’s no guarentee it will ever exist again but you can’t rule it out either. The Bahamas 🇧🇸 Bowl has always been a “Gimmick” Bowl to me because of the lack of a window for fans to be able to plan on attending the game. By comparison the Basketball events held at Atlantis are planned well in advance which allows fans to make plans.
Old Dominion University is from the Sun Belt Conference and is located in Norfolk, Virginia. There fan base would of had zero expectation of ending up in the Bahamas. The MAC has ties to the game so you can at least have the possibility in the back of your head. ODU (6-6) was sitting at 4-6 with two games left so two weeks ago they weren’t planning their Vacation around a Bowl game.
Not sure what the future holds for the Bahamas Bowl or the Famous Toastery Substitute Bowl? Just know that they will be playing 🏈 later and that I will be watching 👀.
Trying to keep things a mix between Football and Not, this seams like a good time to add the Bahamas 🇧🇸 photos 📷
The young Lady 👩 standing 🧍♂️ next to Linda is her older Sister, Tracy Mellis. We actually were able to get her over there as a complete Surprise to Lin !
Less than 3 hours until Kickoff !
LIVE BLOG – first thing that made me smile was seeing the Toast Mascot!!!!
ODU scores TD’s sandwiched around a Western Kentucky fumble. Monarchs lead 14-0 inside of the first six minutes.
Our previous experience with this Stadium didn’t end well. Duke fell to the 49ers in their season opener a few years ago, it was the first Power Five victory ever for Charlotte.
WKU throws a pick-six, 21-0 @ 7:54 (1)
WKU picked up four First Downs and entered the Red Zone before committing their third turnover of the first quarter (1:59 (1))
3:14pm – end of the 1st Quarter (21-0). Nice touch for Atlantis to keep their support package in place for the game..
ODU posts a fourth TD, 28-0 (13:38)
Western Kentucky finally gets on the board with a beautiful 1 handed TD grab ! 28-7 (8:14)
Both teams have now punted for the first time and 3:40 remains in the first half.
Fourth 1st half turnover with 0:03 on the clock sets up a 47-yard Field Goal for ODU. 31-7 @ The Half (4:00pm).
These two teams are meeting for the eighth time today and the Hilltoppers are leading 6-1.
I am confused a bit by ODU having 28 and not 31. I thought the last second FG was good ???
WKU with a second TD drive, now 28-14.
ODU goes 72 yards in 9 or 10 plays for a score, 35-14 (3:04 – 3rd)
Western Kentucky answers back with a TD pass on a play where the receiver hurdled a tackle at the 25 yard line on his way to the end zone.
14:09 remains – ODU 35-21
9:42 – After ODU’s first turnover the Hilltoppers march 69 yards and now its 35-28 (9:42)
A game that will be talked about for years to come is finally over. WKU trailed 28-0 and wins the game 38-35 in OT.
Time to turn the attention to the Girls Basketball games being played back home.
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Monday night 🌙 concluded with the viewing of a Carroll County High School 🏫 Girls 👧 Basketball 🏀 Game in which Elon signee Alyssa Ervin poured in 43 points. Now its on to Day #7.
The lone Bowl 🥣 game today is being played down in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolis in the Suburb of Frisco. No need to pay a great deal of attention there as we watched Jordan Love and I believe it was Utah State a few years back. Frisco is the Home to the Dallas Soccer ⚽️ team and its their small stadium 🏟 that hosts the Bowl 🥣. D-FW has four Bowls in total with one being in Frisco, Dallas, Arlington and Fort Worth (TCU). With no need to pay it much attention this time around its off to find something else to fill Day #7 / 23.
Even took the time to share the score with Max Preps !
What a Ball Game yesterday afternoon !
4pm / 2pm / 1pm – Tip off today
The stats from this game were insane. The Trailblazers shot 67% from deep but only 33% on their two point shots. Four different players shared the scoring load and the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) team led from wire to wire.
The State total reached seven on Tuesday with the addition of Arizona and Utah.
There was one Bowl 🥣 Game yesterday but it wasn’t one of our 11.
This young Lady 👩 had herself a Day. She was on the Game Day artwork and followed that with a Triple Double !
Reaching a Goal of Eight Women’s Basketball 🏀 Games while chasing the final Bowl 🥣 games started just before heading out of town –
Kenny Brooks & Va Tech made 1 and now Utah Tech makes 2 so there’s still plenty of work to do on this part of the list !
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Wednesday December 20th (Day #8):
Dateline – San Diego, CA
Two more Women’s College Basketball 🏀 games and a heavy dose of Sightseeing. We will be back one week from Today for the Holiday Bowl 🥣😎.
Olde Town Trolley 🚎 for the tour and Jenny Craig Pavillion on the Campus of the University of San Diego for the Hoops.
The coolest 😎 part of the Day is the price tag. From Las Vegas and back on Spirit Airlines plus the tour and Hoops for just over $130.00. Crazy Deal….
Such a beautiful, beautiful City
Stay Classy, San Diego….. that’s a classic Will Farrell line !
See you next week San Diego !
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Day #9 of 23 :
Another NCAA Women’s Basketball 🏀 Double Header today! This time the games will be played inside of a Horse 🐎 Arena in the city of Enterprise, Nevada
This one Bowl 🥣 game today and it involves Syracuse out of the Atlantic Coast Conference down in Boca Raton, Florida. The trip down to Boca was a fun one and it was Appy- WKU when the Hilltoppers had Zappe setting TD Pass records.
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Crossing Paths – #4 & 5 / #8!
Otis, the Family 👪 Horse 🐎❤
Booogz !
@ The Half – Eagles soaring !
23-19 Eagles in the 3rd after a half court heave swished for EWU.
Next up – Wyoming vs Wright State…
Wright State is trying hard to deal with a Wyoming front line of 6’4, 6’2 and 6’1. Down 32-20 @ Halftime
Wright State fought all the way back to take the lead but the Cowgirls prevail in the end, 71-61.
Wyoming scored the first 10 points and then they played even at 61-61
Cap off Day #9 – South Florida 45, Syracuse 0 down in Boca Raton…
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Day #10 – more Women’s College Basketball 🏀 and Carroll County JV Basketball (Girls 👧) and Wrestling.
Our JV Girls 👧 Basketball 🏀 program swept through their 3-Day event.
Finishing up here in Enterprise, Nevada with Women’s College Basketball 🏀 games 7 & 8. Eastern Washington University has led wire to wire in the opener.
EWU 56-41..2 minutes remaining
EWU 62-43…. Next up Wright State vs Presbyterian
Leaving Enterprise as Day #10 Comes to a close.
Day #11 – Birmingham and Honolulu!
4,371 Flight ✈️ Miles between the two cities / Bowl 🥣 Games….
SWEAT HOME 🏡 ALABAMA !
The Year was 1989. The city was Birmingham, Alabama when Mark Brace and I left St.Peters, Missouri to watch the Duke Blue Devils play in something called the All-American Bowl 🏈🥣…
I didn’t realize that Duke was playing in their first Bowl game in my 26 years. We were led by an up and coming Coach named Steve Spurrier and he announced right before the contest that he had accepted the job at his Alma Mater, Florida.
We were spunky but had no answer for a jumbo sized Texas Tech team. Here we are 34 years later we head back to where it all started . This time we lost our Coach a few weeks ahead of time. For the 10th time in my 60 years we are going Bowling 🎳! For the first time in those ten trips we are going back to a city for the first time.
Duke limited Troy to a pair of 3 & Outs in the Second Quarter! – 2:27 of possession out of 15:00! Duke 14-0 and set to receive the 2nd Half Kick.
30 Seconds after the Final score we received the Iron Dukes email 📧!
Next Stop ✋ – Hawaii Bowl 🥣
Five straight Bowl W’s !
Next 48 hours will be spent enjoying the Christmas 🎄 Holiday and getting over to Phoenix for the Guaranteed Rate Bowl 🥣 on 12/26. That one begins a stretch of 6 Games in 6 Days
Merry Christmas Eve !
The next Cross Pather on the Journey is Wally. Wally and I were tight back during my time in Portland, Oregon.
Wally is still working with the Portland Pilots. He is in town for the Basketball 🏀 tournament. His Pilots just dropped a heartbreaking 💔 1 point loss to Temple in the 7th place game.
Quadruple Header of Hoops on Christmas 🎄 Eve…
Game #3 goes to Coach Dixon and his Horned Frogs 🐸👏…..
Another Day, Another Gym Trip !
UMASS took Game 2 over Old Dominion who was still playing with out Coach Jeff Jones. Jones suffered a Heart Attack two days ago and is still recovering.
Nevada and Georgia Tech play next for the Championship but not sure if we will make it to the end of Game #4
Head Coach Steve Alford and his Nevada Wolfpack won 🏆 👏 the event, defeating Georgia Tech in the Finals.
The final act of the final trip to Hawaii was to travel over to North Shore and watch the Sun Set in a place most never see 👀.
Sunday has turned into Monday which means we Celebrate the Birth of Jesus, or as most like to call it, Christmas
Time to head back to the Mainland after 60 hours or so which spread across 4 Days and 3 Nights 🌙.
The flight ✈️ rotation looks like Honolulu (Delta) to Los Angeles to Las Vegas and finally to Phoenix (AA) for the Guaranteed Rate Bowl 🥣 Tuesday night 🌙.
Fortunately I am with the Love 💘 of my Life so though its a Travel Day its also be with the Wife Day !!
Have a Merry Christmas !
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Happy to be back on the Mainland after time on two sets of Islands set apart by….
Just shy of 5,000 miles….
Watched Ghostbusters on the flight ✈️ to see 👀 the scenes from The Biltmore Hotel 🏨 from earlier in the trip.
Day 12 /22 means we are on the backside of the Trek !
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Tuesday December 26th – Day #14 takes us to the first of back to back Baseball ⚾️ 🏟🏟 hosting Football 🏈🏈 games. Chase Field in Phoenix to be followed by Petco Park in San Diego.
Football 🏈🏈🏈🏈 in a Baseball ⚾️ Stadium 🏟
The Roof is Closed !
Day #14 is winding down as we await Kickoff here in Phoenix ! (7pm – Mountain ⛰ Time)
Kansas has scored 28 unanswered but sadly has collected 5 Personal Fouls in the 1st half.
UNLV scored on its initial possession but 7-0 became 7-28 quickly. 28-10 @ Halftime
Ruining Rebels have scored 17 points in less than 5 minutes off game time over the break! Kansas lead down to 28-24….
Day #14 has become Day #15 back on the East Coast…… 26,478 attended the Ballgame last night 🌙 as both teams traveled well.
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Day #15 takes the trek back to Southern California
Quick flight ✈️ over to San Diego for the Holiday Bowl 🥣. Kickoff 8pm/5pm…..
Airport Count for Trip –
LAS – will finish up at 8 after we fly out tomorrow morning….
San Diego – 4, Los Angeles 4, Atlanta 4 are some of the ones that will finish tied for runner-up.
Southwest Airlines breaks into the scoring column.
They join American Airlines, Bahamas 🇧🇸 Air, Alaska Airlines, Delta Airlines, Hawaii Air, Spirit Air (7 of the targeted 8)….Happy to report that all Flights ✈️ to this point have went off without issue !!!!!! Breeze Airlines will be the 8th and Final Airline partner. No Frontier or Jet Blue on the little end and no United on the Big end.
Time to take off for a quick flight ✈️ over the San Diego….
Now presenting “8 Hours in San Diego “.
We love San Diego but its as pricey as it gets when it comes to staying overnight. So that was the reason for coming down last week for a Day of Fun, because today is just about catching the Holiday Bowl 🥣.
Witnessed 10 more Touchdowns
The Holiday Bowl 🥣 had a Big Time feel to it from start to finish ! Great energetic crowd 👏 (35,000+) & plenty of offense.
Now its time for the last flight ✈️ out before the 11:30pm Airport curfew. Back to Nevada for a quick nap after writing ✍ a Gamer about Carroll County Boys 👦 Basketball 🏀 at the gate.
Day 16 is here and its off to Texas for the first time on the Trek ! Oklahoma vs Arizona in the Alomo Dome down in San Antonio.
Kickoff is 8:15 pm Central Time, leaving enough time to visit the River Walk before hand. Flying out of LAS for the final time here in a bit, making the final total 8 times.
Back home 🏡 we will have three of our four Basketball 🏀 teams competing today. Both of the Boys 👦 teams at Fort Chiswell High School 🏫 and the Girls 👧 down in South Carolina.
University of Texas – San Antonio Men’s Basketball team is playing tonight ahead of the Bowl 🥣 Game
UT-SA
We still have the Alamo Bowl, Liberty Bowl, Arizona Barstool Bowl and the Citrus Bowl 🥣 before taking a break ahead of the Natty down in Houston on January 8th….
Getting ready to say Goodbye to the Pacific Time Zone here in a few minutes. American Airlines flight ✈️ to Dallas-Fort Worth and a connection to San Antonio. Two hours until Tip for the JV Boys 👦 back 🏡.
Final meal in Nevada – LAS Airport has treated us well, all eight times !
Some of the sights and sounds from Thursday night 🌙.
55,853
We have reached Day #17 now (Friday) and amazingly we have our initial ugly travel day.
Delta Airlines ✈️ out of San Antonio Airport at 5:06am to Atlanta. Not Cool! But it didn’t happen until Day #17 !!!!
Halfway to Memphis (ATL) as Georgia breaks into the scoring column….
Memphis, Tennessee is the home 🏡 to a historic Football 🏈🏈 Stadium 🏟 apply named the Liberty Bowl 🥣. My history with the building was a trip there with the Duke Football team roughly a decade ago.
44,000+ were in the building that day and the Blue Devils went home happy!
Going to be Cold 🥶 in Memphis
Bob & Peggy Reed, residents of Memphis, Tennessee and members of OneofUs.Care alongside Booogz!
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Day #18 got off to an early start (2am) followed up by an early Flight ✈️ (5:06 am) from Memphis to Houston. We are currently sitting at the Gate for the connection flight ✈️ to Phoenix, followed by a 100 mile drive 🚗 through the Desert 🏜 down to Tucson
Photos 📷 from the Past Few Hours
Sub 40° here in Houston this morning 🌄 so thankfully its just a stop ✋ over this time.
Getting ready to jet across the bottom of the Country
Next up – Arizona Bowl 🥣
Visitor #7 – Lawrence Nesselrodt of West Virginia Tech Golden Bears 🐻 Baseball ⚾️ Program !
Tucson has three area Gymnasiums and we hit all 3! 1 prior to the Kickoff and two following!!
Wyoming wins the game with a walk 🚶♂️ off Field Goal 🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈
The One Way rental car 🚗 from Phoenix to Tucson was an absolute BONUS!!! Brand New Malibu with leather seats 💺 = Dreamy New car smell !!
In & Out Burgers 🍔😋
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Day #19 – New Years Eve!
Greetings from the Tucson AZ Airport! Not sure which is cooler – Pegasus statue or the trio of Cactus plants inside of the Lobby ?
Today is just a travel day as we are set to fly 1,700+ miles across the bottom of the Country to Hotlanta and then on to Orlando, Florida ahead of tomorrow’s Citrus Bowl 🥣.
6am departure (Mountain ⛰ Time)
Flying out with an Airport full of Wyoming Cowboys 🤠
Atlanta from the Airplane ✈ window!
Just a short layover then on to the Land of Mickey Mouse !
Crossing paths #8/8 – Christina Bell, long time friend of Linda, resident of Florida.
Planet Fitness #7 / #8 Orlando – Turkey Lake Road.
Citrus Bowl 🥣 tomorrow (10 of 11) so the finish line is becoming easier to see 👀!!!
Amazing 👏 Fact about the 45 minutes lost to the delayed 2nd flight ✈️ today was the first delay of the trip !!!
Day #19 is the end of the Loop for Linda as she will spend the next five days hanging out with her friends.
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Day #20 – leads into 2024, so Happy New Year to everyone following along..
First piece of business was to make the 8th trip to Planet Fitness!
Next up – head over to downtown Orlando for the Citrus Bowl 🥣.
Good Ole Rocky Top, Rocky Top Tennessee !
The highlight of the Day came when the crowd in Orlando recreated the famous Wave to the patients in the Children’s Hospital 🏥 back in Iowa.
Now its on to the National Semi-finals !
Michigan wins the opener in OT, 27-20.
Day #21 gets off to a great (early) start as the UW Huskies advance to the National Championship Game next Monday in Houston, Texas !!!
So it was a Flight ✈️ to Charlotte, drive 🚗 to Laurel Fork and then over to the Hill for Boys 👦 Basketball 🏀 games. Tomorrow, will do the same in reverse….
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Day #22 – Successful drive 🚗 back to the Charlotte Airport and perk of getting bumped up to First Class for the Flight ✈️ back to Disney World.
After the final return tomorrow the journey takes a break until Championship Monday. Big Bonus to have the UW Huskies joining me in Houston !!! The trip goes from completion of a Long Loop to that plus cheering on the Dawgs while completing said Loop.
Still have a few hours left here ahead of the 10am departure time tomorrow morning 🌄….
Option #1 – Lady 👩 Knights (UCF) Hoops….
Option #2 –
Take a Flight ✈️ on a newer Airline, named …..
Breeze, up to Charleston, South Carolina. The 9th and final Airline used on the Trek!! 42 minutes of Flight ✈️ time was all that was needed to add it to the list of Airlines used – American, Alaska, Bahama, Breeze, Delta, Frontier, Hawaiian, Southwest and Spirit.
The flight ✈️ out of Charleston in the morning 🌄 takes off at 5:09 am so the final day 😴 will begin too early at an Airport. If the travel goes well the day will end at the High School 🏫 On the Hill at 6pm!
Monday and Tuesday of next week will be stand alone and serve as the final chapter to the Box 📦 Set of Bowl 🥣 Games !!!
Two straight Bowl 🥣 seasons with double digit games was all it took to cross the imaginary Finish Line !!!
The goal for the remainder of my Life is to NOT start another Box Set. The list has been lengthy and fun but capping off the final two this season – WNBA Arenas & College Bowl 🥣 Games makes it a Wrap.
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A great deal has been learned over the past 3+ weeks about the economy of College Football 🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈 and I’m further convinced that there’s No Turning Back.
Having spent half of my Adult Life living in the State of Washington so I would naturally be cheering on the Huskies Monday night 🌙. But its equally important to note 📝 that Michigan played six of its games without its Head Coach because he was suspended for Breaking the Rules. The second time was because of a MAJOR issue with having staff flying around wearing outfits of other teams to steal signs..
Folks believe that omitting Florida State from the Final Four was a travesty but I’m not sure having Michigan carrying off the Trophy next Monday is what we need either.
College 🏈 , to borrow a line from Oldsmobile – this isn’t your Dad’s College Football ! But you’re supposed to finish what you start and that’s about to happen !!!
The Hoops game that was traded in for Charleston… Fortunately the College Basketball 🏀 games taken in on the Trek were already well into double figures.
Celebration Time – Having reached Platinum status for the first time in my 60 years, this morning 🌄 I had a Bob Eucker moment where he says – “I must be in the front row !”
Except I actually did get moved to the Front Row !!!
Some times decisions can be hard but this isn’t one of those times. I have made it back to Charlotte, five us hours ahead of Linda. Option #1 is stay here and hang out in the Admirals Club or fly down to Orlando and return with my Bride 👰 as was the original plan.
Lin didn’t just come along on the trip, she was in the Stadium in Los Angeles, Honolulu, Phoenix, San Diego, San Antonio, Memphis and Tucson. Such a great sport from start to finish 👏 and I know that she has enjoyed the five days and four nights 🌙 in the Land of Mackey Mouse 🐁 with her dear friends. Now its time to close the trip out in style by getting on the flight ✈️ and riding back up with her.
I feel safe in saying that after Houston next week I will be okay to not fly for a long, long time – maybe forever like…..
Scooped up my Wife and we are moments away from crossing the perverbial Finish Line !!!!!
One More for the Road !!!!
Monday, January 8th, 2024
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On a flight ✈️ full of Wolverines and a handful of Dawgs…..its time to take off for Houston, Texas….
Tuesday January 9th, 2024…..
All that is left to do is fly back to Charlotte and then drive 🚗 back to Laurel Fork. The Motto is Finish what you start and place the College Football 🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈 Bowl 🥣 Loop complete !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
12 Airports, sounds about right….
The Goal now is to live the balance of my Life without creating any new Box 📦 Sets…..
Time to go 🏡🏠🏡🏠🏡🏠🏡🏠
Carroll County Sports Report 