Chuck's Adventures: Father's Day in Wheaton

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Father's Day in Wheaton

After church, I drove out to Wheaton and parked at Herrick Lake Preserve (DuPage County) and biked 24 miles through the lovely Herrick Lake Preserve and the adjoining Danada Preserve, and then rode the connector trail to and through Blackwell Preserve...

Then on to Scott and Sarah's for conversation and an introduction to their Wii game -- bowling and tennis, followed by Mexican dinner at Front Street Cocina...

Steve picked up my Mom so she could share the afternoon with us.

We also checked the progress of Scott's model railroad down in his train room. He is modeling the Denver and Rio Grande Western from Denver to Glenwood Springs and this level will be the two huge curves (Big Ten and Little Ten curves) heading west out of Denver as the tracks gain elevation for the mountains...

Wonderful Father's Day guys -- thanks!!!

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Adventure begins where your comfort zone ends.

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Nothing adventured, nothing gained!
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The older I get, the better I was!
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Like G. B. Shaw, I want to be all used up when I die!
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I want to die young at an advanced age.
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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. - John Barrymore
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The closest place to heaven is being out in Nature.

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I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

--Henry David Thoreau

But in every walk with Nature, one receives far more than he seeks.

--John Muir

Now voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find.
--Walt Whitman

Every journey has to end, and the end of the journey is always called Home.
--Nelson DeMille

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
--Susan Sontag

Twenty years from now, you will be disappointed more by the things you didn't do, than by the ones you did do. Explore. Dream. Discover.

--Mark Twain

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
--Frank Lloyd Wright

It's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly understood; an inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
--G.K. Chesterton

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.
- -Chinese Proverb

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
--Vance Havner
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