"A sturdy lad ...who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always, like a cat, falls on his feet, ... feels no shame in not ‘studying a profession,’ for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances." 

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The real price of anything is the toil and trouble of acquiring it."

-Adam Smith

"'Tis Better to Be Vile than Vile Esteemed."

-William Shakespeare

"There is a stream of things entering into being, and time is raging torrent; for no sooner does each thing enter our sight than it has been swept away, and another is passing in it's place, and that too will be swept away."

-Marcus Aurelius

"Sometimes we make the right decisions; the rest of the time, we must make our decisions right."

-General Norman Schwarzkopf

  2005 

AUG. - Vancouver, Canada

JAN. 1 - Rose Bowl

Texas 38 - Michigan 37

   2004 - 2005 Latin America  

Guatemala, Mexico, Mexico2, Belize, Guatemala2, Honduras, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Peru2, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Colombia, Panama2, Costa Rica

   2003  

APR. to DEC. - Port "A". (Plus trips to San Antonio, Monterrey Mexico, Florida, Austin, and Big Bend National Park)

FEB. - Western United States (Amarillo, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Flagstaff, Sedona, Grand Canyon, Death Valley, Lake Tahoe, Oregon, Washington, Utah)

  2002 

DEC. - St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

MAY. - France (Pau, Pyrenees, Carcassonne, Cordes, Lourdes, Toulouse, Paris)

  2001 

APR. - St. Lucia

JAN. - India (Delhi, Agra, Ahmadabad)

  2000  

DEC. - Holiday Bowl (San Diego, Tijuana)

MAR. to NOV. - Europe (Poland, Russia, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, England, France, Italy, Greece, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands)

FEB. - Japan (Osaka)

   1999