Leaky Texas Cabin

January 2011, Patti and I with kids and grand kids went to Leakey (Lakey) Texas to a cabin for a couple of nights. Patti won this trip at a American Heart Association auction and got a great price on our trip. What beautiful country this was to get away from the noise!



Grand kids really loved the simple pleasure of playing on a see saw... We did too!

We went to Garner State Park and had a great time hiking a trail up to a small cave and around down to the Frio River.

Evie throws out the first ball for the beginning of the Family Bacci Ball Tournament. Little did we know that this would go down in the family history books as the comeback of the century! Breyton & Amma fell behind Papa early in match. Papa owned a commanding lead that seem to be insurmountable by Bacci Ball Standards. However, Breyton with his unwillingness to give up and perserverance to continue his push to tie Papa and then beat him with the final through by 1 point. Final Score: 10-9. Below are some of the action shots taken by Sports Badger Illustrations, Jana

Breyton became the raining Family Champion of Bacci Ball

 Breyton waits for he turn.

 Consulting Amma during a time out.

Papa enjoying his early lead and taking a break with Evie. 

 This amazing Bacci Ball court will be in the history books as the place Breyton performed his skill and magic to beat Papa in an amazing come from behind victory!

The Frio River





Fall in New York, October 2010

First week of October 2010 Patti & I traveled to Bronx New York to visit David, Jana, and our grand kids. What a wonderful time to visit. Since we visited most of Manhattan by subway last time, we decided to discover what New York has to offer in the great outdoors.

One of the highlights was camping in the Catskill Mountains. Jana once again performed her magic and reserved a beautiful spot next to a softly rolling creek. It was just beautiful and wonderful spot.

We enjoyed an awesome family hike up Kaaterskill Falls and created the following movie of our journey.

This was a lot of fun getting some exercise while enjoying the wonderful scenery. The grand kids did marvelously on this hike!

The boys had a great fishin trip planned on the Long Island Sound. We recruited Captain Rich Tenreiro and his first mate Natalie Roseberry to take Spencer Mangum, Roroy Sandberg, David Badger, and I out to catch some Blackfish. Rich Tenreiro interview available at JustGoFishin Tales and Reports Podcast Show. Video below shows the great time we had.

Left to Right: Spencer Mangum, Dave Alexander, David Badger, Roroy Sandberg

Just another awesome vacation in New York. I've miss placed some other pictures we took of the Bronx Zoo and Apple Picking. Both were a lot of fun.