So It Begins

Make no mistake, this is not some new wave attempt to convince anyone that God exists. As far as John and I are concerned, there is no doubt that God created all that we can see, and then some. However, in the fifty plus years that we have been on this planet we have come to learn a great deal about what we once thought was fact is simply not. Therefore, what this blog is really about is our newest endeavor involving metal detectors.
Last year John retired from over two decades of fighting fires just like his daddy. I on the other hand, was forced out of thirteen years of law enforcement by the dreaded MS dragon that bit through my spine back in the eighties. We plan to spend as much time as possible driving the beautifully scenic roadway of California highway 49, stopping along the way to play with the metal detectors as well as take a great deal of pictures, and then share the whole adventure with you all!
We hope to begin very soon and will be planning on a number of day trips in the beginning. Eventually, we hope to pick up a trailer that will enable us to spend several days in a particular area preferably as we venture farther and farther from home base.
As I said earlier, we both believe in God, although, in a very different way than when we were boys growing up in a Catholic household. We have since discovered a very personal God who we are certain very few people understand. Not that we have a terrific grip on the whole Creator issue, but we have been through enough, and we have also learned far more than when we were younger, and this new understanding that we both have come to concerning our Creator has been formed through those experiences and the education.
Although, I still have a few kids at home (in college) with my baby starting high school, John's kids are all grown, though his youngest (step son) is at home on and off while finishing college. So, we started thinking that we have never done anything, other than work, together since we were kids, so why not do something that we both could afford while we both still physically could. In our lines of work, along with the way we were raised, we managed to beat the holy snot out our bodies to the point that even without the Multiple Sclerosis I can hardly get out of bed in the morning, and John is no different. He came up with the idea for metal detecting, and we agreed that if the old farts in Pismo Beach can do it why the heck can't we? We are just as old and cantankerous as any old fart in Pismo Beach!
So here we go!
I guess the first thing we should do is go buy a couple of metal detectors.
Talk at you later!