I always spend the end of Hurricane Season in Colorado visiting friends and family in the Denver area and this year is no exception; it is always fun to catch up and…
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POSTS FROM WHEN I AM OFF THE BOAT
Over the last couple years I have enjoyed watching car shows and have gotten more and more interested in older cars. Don’t get me wrong, I do not need a…
I mean how many families would get a three generation photo with their parent’s unused (as of yet, knock on wood) tombstone? The saddest part is that as soon as…
Whenever I visit my mom & dad one of the very first questions I ask is “where is the list of projects you want me to do while I am…
I have spent the last month visiting friends and family in Florida, Tennessee, and Texas and am now driving up to Missouri with my parents to spend a month out…
Warren & Erica join me as we talk about their three-month road trip around the southwest USA in a pickup truck that Warren modified. We had a great time chatting…
While I was in Denver I was asked to go to the Chihuly exhibit at the Denver Botanical Garden and when I told people I was going they either said…
I know this post is going to geek it up, but last weekend my family did our annual fantasy football draft. For those of you that don’t know, fantasy football…
When you build a new house in the middle of a field you have to deal with some wildlife. These guys are all over the garage, but at least they…
My parents new house is an hour north of Kansas City and, as some of you know, is right in the middle of tornado alley. If you live in mid…
At my parents old house they had a glass five gallon jar filled with pennies for each of us boys. When they were moving they cashed them all in to…
It use to be that if you wanted to cool off you just flipped on a switch for a same old-same old fan. Now a days there are so many…
In keeping with this week’s theme of my parents and their house, I present my dad with his new toy. I have to admit it is fun to drive. 🙂
Well after over a year of the wandering gypsy lifestyle my parent decided to build a new house on land that use to be apart of the farm my dad…
As I promised here is the speech and toast I gave at my best friend’s, Joel, wedding to Rene and I use a service that offer All Speeches Great and…
If you are lucky like me then you have that one true best friend. Mine is Joel, who you have read about and seen pictures of here and there as…
so back to the boat I went!!! Of course I could not go back without new stuff for the boat. You should have seen the check in lady’s face when…
I am in Missouri visiting some family when my cousin said we should check out the Steamboat Arabia Museum. It was fantastic and was about a paddle wheel riverboat that sank in the…
While my last several blogs, about my time in the Spanish VI and Puerto Rico, have been posting, I had several people comment through the website (remember you can leave…
I have to admit I have struggled with the topic of this week’s blog. Since it was my last full week in Dallas, not much has been happening except hanging…
The other day my friend Eric drove over to Kansas City so we could go rock climbing. He works as a firefighter/paramedic for a smaller town in mid Missouri and…
Hello to you if you are reading this! My name is Trevor and I’m Shane McClellan’s 18 year old nephew. I have had the joy of spending the last week…
Hi, I am Emma, Shane McClellan’s (also known as Uncle Shane) favorite niece. He’s uncle to 5 kids and I am the youngest. You might have already known, but he…
This week was going to be slow and relaxed as I completed paperwork and purchased stuff for the boat. Then my dad decided on his 66 birthday he would give…
The Relay For Life is a fund raising event for the American Cancer Society, which is held in communities all over the country. The idea is to have teams raise…
This week I flew to Denver to help run the Relay For Life, which I will tell you about next week. What I want to tell you about this week…
After spending the first half of the week changing the oil, replacing some rotten wood under the hot water heater, and taking care of rust on the rudder post (I…
I am happy to be BACK ON THE BOAT!!!!! During my last week in Dallas I spent the time getting my USCG application ready, taking care of other paperwork, and…
Damon and his dad Don drove me half way to College Station after church, where we met Joel, who works at Texas A&M University, for lunch. Afterwards, I went with…
I spent the entire week working on my USCG captain license. I would love to say it was all spent on studying for my upcoming exam, but the truth is…
I have continued to study for the upcoming USGS captain test (which is Aug 30th). I studied the first half of the week in Denver, where I felt like jeans…
As you may have noticed I missed last week’s blog, so I will be doing a quick two week update. The first part of last week was spent sending off…
My nieces and nephew were picked up by another grandparent on Saturday. He also brought the other two with him. It was great seeing both of them; I just wish…
The last few days of my trip to Colorado were great. I took a drive up Lookout Mountain with Jamie in the convertible, stick shift, mini Cooper I was allowed…
I started the week off with my cousins Andrea and Allison along with their husbands Mike and Brandon. We had lunch and hung out for a few days. On Tuesday…
I had a blast in Missouri this week. As soon as my parents and I showed up at my aunt’s we were shooting off fireworks (and they got some good…
This is going to sound strange on a sailing blog, but I am writing this entry in a car driving to the middle of Missouri with my parents to visit…
This week started with me in the Bahamas and ending with me in the United States. On Sunday Paul, Nancy, & I hung out at the fantastic Old Bahama Bay…
I am back in Dallas for the Christmas holiday. The fiberglass guy started last week and should be done by the time I get back to the boat. The frig…
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I spent the week with my parents in Dallas and then came back down in order to get a lot of projects started…
I spent the last week in Washington State with my brother and his family. It was great spending a week with my nieces and nephews, Aaron and his wife, Emily. …
I spent the week in Dallas with my Nieces, nephews, and little cousins. It seemed like all they wanted to do was swim and have me throw them around the…
I continued to clean out the boat and organize for the first half of the week. I found out my dad has to have open heart surgery for a by-pass. …
I spent last week in Dallas with my folks before returning to the boat last Sunday. I was 7 miles from my exit south of Houston with a car load…