BE MY VALENTINE

BE MY VALENTINE  

Today maybe Valentine's Day, but in Missoula, Montana, overcast skies, dipping mercury, and snow waits just outside your cockled heart to paint your nose blue and your ears crimson.   

So I've stepped onto the warm side of this romantic day.  June 19th, for example. That's a warm day and the day Glacier Nat'l Park finally opens it's roads to travelers and the day that we'll be passing through the park on our 2014 Polar Cycling Expedition.  

Once again, I'm morphing into a Wild Hog (more like a naked mole rat) and hitting the road with my fellow-recumbent colleague, Rick Stiles, to pedal past the Arctic Circle and all the way to where the road ends and the polar bears begin at the Arctic Ocean.  

If that isn't romantic, what is?  No sag.  No support.  Just two spouses drowning their sorrows in a two-month shopping adventure in the lower forty-eight while their two boomer husbands bicycle to the end of the world. 

So stay on the warm side of Valentine's Day.  Keep the passion alive and steaming in your marriage.  (Heaving bosoms and soft embraces.)  But don't stop there!  Build robust passion into your dreams.  Be a Wild Hog at something and take off.  You may look like a naked mole rat to some, but deep down you know who you are:  You are an adventurer!  You are a risk-taker!  You're a gal or guy that fuels your soul with Heaven's romance and earth's adventure.  

Keep in touch . . . let me know how your Valentine's Day went.  

Gotta go.  Have some roses to pick up.

Later,
Thomas Hall