Video for Leg 2 Part 1 - Fort Worth to Lake Mineral Wells State Park

This collection of images chronicles the 1st 3 days of the 2nd leg of Discovering America on 2 Wheels - from Fort Worth Tx through a Snow Storm on I-20 / Hwy 180 to Weatherford Tx and on to a 3 day stay at Lake Minerals State Park near Mineral Wells Tx.

But more importantly, it marked a big turning point for me....

Life slowed down....

I noticed that people wanted to talk.... just sit and talk.... and I wanted to listen....

That was different.... I wanted to listen to what they had to say about their life... their town... their heritage... their perspective on things.... their reason for being....

Yeah... people out West talk about things like that.... to total strangers.

Like an 86 year old gentleman and his wife I met in a Breckenridge Tx laundromat....

Turns out he was a WWII veteran who was in "the Great Raid" where US forces liberated 2300 American prisoners in the Phillipines in 1945.... Greatest Liberation of American POW's in US History....

Like a Lake Mineral Wells State Park Ranger writing a book on the Concept, Philosopy and Lifestyle based on the Oneness of Man and Nature....

The list goes on and on.... every town.... every pause.... every day....

Was a Discovery of People, Places and Things....

And Self....

It was a Sensory Overload....a Reset of Priorities.... a Hard Reboot on Life....

All from the seat of a Bicycle while I was....

Discovering America on 2 Wheels

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