I LOVE TEXAS - Preface- 400 words

                  I

 

              LOVE

 

             TEXAS

 

 

 

 

Another story by:  NED OPDYKE

nedopdyke@gmail.com      www.opdykeconstruction.webs.com/

 Other stories by this author:                           

- The Gospel According to Ned                                                                                                                  

- The Return of the Gospel According to Ned, Part 2                                                                               

- The Yucatan Peninsula vs. Hurricane Wilma                                                                                         

- Please Allow Me to Introduce My Selves                                                                                               

- From Here to There and Back Again                                                                                                       

- Sometimes You Find Love in the Most Unexpected Places                                                                 

- California Is My Home (but I still love Texas)                                                                                         

- The Last Adventure... (of 2009)

                                                                 

                                                                   PREFACE

Welcome to another installment and opportunity for you to get to know me better, and hopefully also a chance for you to get to know yourself better at the same time.

For those of you who have not read any of my previous autobiographical action adventure stories… I will tell you… my stories are meant to serve three purposes: 

(1) To allow me to express my own thoughts and feelings, for the selfish reason of my own self-awareness and betterment.

(2) I hope some of you will perceive it as gift to you, to be able to become more aware of your own thoughts and feelings, in such a way that you may also gain personal insight and therefore benefit in some way, within yourself.

(3) Simply for something to distract you for a while.

Although I have lived almost my entire life in this three dimensional world that we refer to as reality… I have also experienced brief moments in a completely different reality, and it is at these times when I feel most alive, nourished, and grateful to be alive.

I have chosen to use my three dimensional adventures, out on the open roads of our Country, as a vehicle to travel into the inner realms of the vastness which exists inside each of us.  Personally, I am most comfortable when I am exploring these regions of duality… the physical geography of the Country where my body thrives, and the emotional geography of my soul where my spirit resides.

This story's vehicle is my latest motorcycle road trip… my second in less than a year, from Santa Cruz-California, to Killeen-Texas.  When I departed, I thought I was going to leave Honey (my motorcycle) there and fly back, so that I could then drive my truck, loaded with my other worldly possessions back out there, to begin my new life as a Texan.  What ended up happening was much different than what I had expected.