Mary Jane suggested I make a photo album or some type of scrap book that symolizes my good bye to you. Actually, the following idea occurred to me at christmas and that was to take a bicycle ride. It would be the bicycle ride that Scott Richards and I took at the beginning of our college education. It was from Columbus Ohio to Wadsworth. I plan to do this starting June 9th. The actual bike ride will take place on June 12th. It was either June 12th or july 12th that we got married. I don't want to know anymore. I know it was on the 12th and it was one of those summer "J" month. But I am now really trying to forget. Back then Colorado was just one of those big square states out west. I want to put Colorado back into that frame of reference. I will never live there again. It will be a long long time before I go back, if ever. I will forget. I will bury. My bicycle ride is the ground breaking ceremony for the hole I am going to dig to bury the past 16 years.
After Mary Jane made the suggestion, the rest of the plan became crystal clear. I am taking my video camera. Halfway between Reno and Ro . . wait no different story. (See even when I am crying I still have a sense of humor) Almost dead smack at the halfway point is a beautiful sandstone church with a beautiful shade tree. As Scott and I sat under that shade tree many years ago almost too many to count now, we agreed to come back when we were "old" you know like 35. I plan to sit under that shade tree again. After I am done resting, I will get back on my bike, I will leave the church, Scott, and my wedding band behind.
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Who is Mary Jane?
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