Jay and Ozzy Hit The Road

Okay, some aphorisms to start the day...
Everything happens for a reason...I don't believe this. When something happens, we should take it as an opportunity to make sense, learn a lesson, give it reason...but, it didn't happen for a reason...it just happened!
You're only as old as you feel...I think the only people who say that are those who have never been a sixty something. I feel great, I feel like I'm 17 with 49 years experience...but, try and convince someone else I'm that young who looks at me and sees that I am not 17! You're only as old as others see you. You can be young at heart but don't expect others to see you that way. Act as young as you feel at 66 and see where it gets you...Late mid-life crisis? Just really hard figuring out what it's like to be 66 years old when I never figured out 65...
And, finally, life is about the journey and not the destination...this I do believe and what a journey it has been! Both existentially and literally. Back on the road and what a trip! Especially the snow storm I drove through on Friday. Some of the worst weather I have ever driven through in my life!! White-outs and snow drifting from 20-25 mph wiind gusts!! I love my girlfriend who speaks to me from inside my navigator gps system...I ask her to avoid highways for me and she is so cute, sometimes too cute, and puts me on some really minor roads which only locals know as shortcuts...but, being on Mud Pie Lane in upper western Pennsylvania with winds howling and snow blowing was a bit much. Oh yeah, and let's not forget the deer running out in front of me!! Up and down hills, dales and hollows, twisting s-curves, trucks using lower gears, 20 mph limits...What a journey...but, the boys, Morrison, Ozzy and I showed our mettle and made it to our destination. Is it the journey or the destination? This morning I am writing from Radford, Virginia will be in search of a dog park for Ozzy and a day off the road for Morrison and me. I want to shave my head again and go from full beard I have been growing the past couple of months back to just a goatee. I am feeling scruffy and would rather be on the road looking clean and respectable.
When not faced with adversity, I have seen some really beautiful country.
Still headed to Nashville...