TWO MONTHS ON THE ROAD!

After almost nine weeks away from home I am finally back in Boise. I returned just in time to suffer the indignity of a whipping by Georgia over our BSU Broncos 48-13. We had such high hopes for this season and this game was a huge test...we failed. We have a tough game next week too as we are on the road to take on Oregon State, a team that wants to avenge a whipping they took on the blue turf that was nationally televised on ESPN.
My travels have taken me to Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. I am now pretty much based in Ft. Worth, Texas, but I did make it up to the home office in St. Joseph, Mo. for a corporate meeting. While there I was able to make it to Kansas City for a Wednesday afternoon game between the Royals and the White Sox. It was a great game that went 13 innings with the home team winning 6-5. Hopes were high in KC after taking two out of three over irst place Chicago. The Royals then went on to lose 18 consecutive games!

While in Texas my job took me to Waco, Amarillo, Wichita Falls and even to Crawford. I saw the Cindy Sheehan group. There were only a few of them. It hardly seemed to warrant all the media attention they were getting. Cindy Sheehan certainly has every right to demonstrate, but I really don't think she is doing her cause any favors. The noble cause she always asks about is clearly the fact that an entire country was freed from a brutal leader and that country is no longer a breeding ground for terrorist groups. Perhaps those groups will simply relocate, but having severely disrupted whatever operations they may have had in Iraq and ridding the world of a brutal dictator is certainly noble at the very least. Also, those in that part of the world who hate America and who want to do us harm are forced to take us on on their home turf rather than hitting us at home as they did on 9/11. They are forced to do battle against our soldiers rather than against innocent citizens and those in our military who are in the line of fire are true, real-life heroes. I salute them all and thank them very much. Not everyone would agree, but I am convinced that what they are doing and the entire reason for us being in Iraq is to make all of us safer and I believe that we indeed are safer.

I spent last weekend in football-crazed Norman, Oklahoma. That entire town is WAY into their Sooners and they were WAY ready to start the season at home against TCU. Too bad the football team was not as ready as they were. It was a crushing defeat and I can only imagine how bummed they are now that their hopes for a national championship have been dashed.