scuba diving

Everyone wants to amaze their friends now and again, making them jealous of your adventure-filled life. You could post photos of you and your parents sitting camelback in front of the pyramids in Egypt, or maybe make your pals sit through a video of you riding a zipline across a tropical canyon somewhere. But hey, we’ve all done that, right? Let's kick it up a notch.

I am back from the 2012 Rudy Cruise, that departed on Sunday, September 16th. I took advantage of a little free time, and made a couple of dives while in Roatan, Honduras. This was the first time for me to see a sea turtle and I dove a ship wreck. Check out the pictures and tell me what you think.

Growing up here in Abilene, home of Dyess Air Force Base you see and hear some pretty cool stories about our military. One of which is does Dyess have nuclear missiles or not? That I'll leave for debate later. The other is about our local missile silos. In high school I heard all kinds of things about the missile silos most of which scared me.

Chimpanzees are generally fearful of water, which makes the fact that Cooper the chimpanzee has learned to swim quite a feat. But that he’s also learned to breathe underwater with a SCUBA tank is truly incredible.

For those of you who scuba dive this might interest you in a much different way than the rest of us. This is an underwater art gallery off of the Florida Keys. Ninety-three feet down you will see photographs encased in Plexiglas.

With all that is going on all weekend long I had a real dilemma. What to do this weekend? I've been invited to participate in several activities like, barbecue at the lake with friends, doing the "Movie Hopping" with a couple of my kids, camping at the state park with some of my scouting friends or back yard barbecuing with the in-laws. All of the a fore mentioned are great to be doing b