Vagabonding begins!

Acapulco was an awesome experience, and I’m sure it will reverberate through my life in one form or the other for years to come.

As much as I enjoyed the 22 days of indescribable noise, debauchery, and never-ending parties, I am happy to come back to a place of sanity. As I lay on my bed, I keep thinking, it doesn’t seem real to be home. This has to be some sort of daydream. I keep waiting on some frat boys to start a chant while one of their comrades hangs upside down with beer pouring out of his nose, or some other equally intelligent alternative. But it never comes. In fact, I haven’t seen one person passed out face down in a puddle of last night’s Corona since I’ve been home! I went to the mall today and the women were wearing clothes, not just brightly colored pieces of string - strange.

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Why in the hell would someone send me a box of 10 Kentucky Living magazines? I pondered for a minute after opening the mysterious package that came in this afternoon.

Ohhhhhh! (ding)

I entered a writing contest for Kentucky Living magazine a few months ago, and like most, never heard back. Apparently something had come of it and I missed the memo. I thumbed through the pages as fast as my fingers could grab them, until I got to page 42 where there is a picture of your’s truly holding the trout that I caught in Alaska last July. My story was published around it in part, and there was a box on the next page explaining why - I was a runner up.

Damn!

The winners were an old retired couple that drove their Goldwing across 29 states. It may have been their last great adventure together of that caliber so I don’t feel too bad. Per the editors, there were 84 entries, so at least I was more interesting than 80 other writers.

Still, close only counts in hand grenades and this was a tease that will be good for me and make me try that much harder. Unfortunately I can’t throw a copy of the magazine across the counter to pay for my next meal. So, no prize money to follow in a separate envelope, but I guess a picture, my name, and most of my story will have to suffice for now. There will be more in the future!

Here’s a mention of the article:
http://www.kentuckyliving.com/article.asp?articleid=1927&issueid=288

If you want to check it out, its Kentucky Living magazine, April 2007, page 42.

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