May 3, 2005 

May 3, 2005

Pictures from inside the airplane flying over Alaska nat 38,000 feet.

Well I’m somewhere over the world right now. Not quite sure where that is, but my guess is Alaska or Canada. I just looked outside and saw lots of mountains covered in snow.


Inside the airport wiating for my plane to arive to take me back to Korea.

Sherry dropped me off at the airport this morning at 7:30 to catch my flight back to Korea. It was the usual sad departure with my wife, but we both put on our happiest faces and tried not to cry too much in front of each other. It’s never easy leaving.


We exchanged the gifts that we had bought each other yesterday at the airport and I opened mine when I got on the plane. It was very funny. We had bought each other the same gift without even knowing it! I guess you start to think alike when you’ve been married a while. It was an odd little bear with his heart in his hand. Sherry and I even joked around that it would be weird if we bought the same gift for each other. That made me smile.

Well I can’t say that I’m looking forward to arriving back in Korea. There really isn’t much to look forward too anymore. Before I just kept counting down the days on my calendar each day to leaving for home. Now I don’t have anything to count down. I’m not sure when I’ll even be leaving Korea. Hopefully in 4 months if all goes well. I’ve been praying that I come home in September back to Ft. Knox to get out of the Army, but I don’t know.

I’ve been reading a book by my new-found mentor. His name is Dean Karnazes and he is an Ultra Marathoner. He runs very long distance races and insane competitions like 100 miles races through mountains in 24 hours, or a 135 mile road race in Death Valley where is was so hot that it literally melted the bottom of his shoes off. He also is the only man to have run a 26.2 mile marathon to the South Pole and has also managed to run 262 miles nonstop without sleep for 3 days. I’m going to really apply myself to running harder and training more at the gym when I get back to Korea. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to compete in a 100 miles race, but I might be able to do a 50 miler. That will be my way of killing my time in Korea for the rest my time there.
….. And my first day to start this new training regiment begins tomorrow morning.