From Denver to Nashville and a Celebration

Buffalo Bill Visitor Center, Oakley, Kansas

Good afternoon, from Perry, Oklahoma and Perry Lake Campground, a pretty nice city-operated full-hookup campsite overlooking Perry Lake. Oklahoma is our 14th state since acquiring Miranda in late October of 2018. Perry Lake is just off I-35.  We're headed south at the moment as we have obligations in the direction of Little Rock, Arkansas, Memphis, Tennessee and ultimately (short-term) Nashville for our son, Tate's, graduation from Vanderbilt University.

We are traveling a few hundred miles each day. Not something we have done, at least not on a daily basis, since we began traveling some four months ago. 

We're coming off a very sobering experience in Denver the last week or so. The massacre of 12 at Columbine High School happened 20 years ago on April 20, 1999. Melanie participated in a number of gun violence related events culminating in several memorial services at various locations around the Denver area.

I wish I could assure you that the citizens of Littleton, Colorado where Columbine High is located, had their consciousness raised the day the massacre happened. I wish I could tell you they are all advocates for reasonable and sensible gun laws that would assist in preventing future mass shootings. I wish. Unfortunately, what they have done is harden Columbine High School making it a  prison-like fortress. What they do is spend millions on security for the school system hoping to prevent another massacre. 

We are both still processing all that happened.  Melanie's taking a little down time after her busy schedule of events last week as we travel east.

Columbine Memorial