I am grateful for having seen all three of my brothers this week in their primary habitats, which is a rarity. It started with seeing my oldest brother in Los Angeles when I took an impromptu visit out there two Thursdays ago, maybe Wednesday. My parents had to cancel at the last second, so kind of on a whim, I decided to step in. Found some tickets, they cost me some money, as they oftentimes do. And I went and I spent an extended weekend with my bro, out in, technically, Long Beach, California. And it went pretty well. And I’m, I’m grateful for having had that opportunity. I hadn’t seen his new house out there, so that was exciting
But it was also only possible, or only affordable, if my youngest brother helped me out in really short notice. So I was able to drive to Chicago, and I saw my youngest brother and then he was willing to drive me to the airport in my car, which, I don’t know, from where he lives it’s a little bit less than an hour to get out to O’Hare. And it was kind of a short visit, but it was amazing to see my younger bro, both to and from the airport on the way out to Long Beach. And he’s moving into a new place in a month, and that’s pretty exciting and it was just wonderful.
And then a few days ago I went up to Lansing to see my second youngest brother. I’ve got three brothers, so that was the third one I was able to visit. He’s been wanting me to come up and go biking with him on the Lansing River Trail, which, um, I haven’t ridden that trail in probably 15 years. So that was pretty great. It was warm, it was humid. It was in the mid to upper 80s, I feel like, on the day that we went.
He lives in Lansing itself at the moment, not East Lansing, so we started in Lansing. We went down toward the capitol, which is not the trail, I know, but we started down by the capitol. We saw this new baseball field called like, John Smoltz Baseball something something, um, that was actually really cool. It’s like this enclosed, but not enclosed — it’s open to the elements but it’s basically like a constructed baseball field for kids to come in and play as they see fit. It’s really kind of a neat thing that was created over there, and we happened to meet the creator who was sitting at the corner when we pulled up and he was so excited about his project. It was actually wonderful to hear.
And then we did about 23 miles on the Lansing River Trail starting from Lansing itself. We rode down into East Lansing through Michigan State’s campus, Grand River, all the classics, before we looped back around. And as a whole it was great to see that bro as well. And altogether, I have to count that as a really productive week, being able to see all my brothers, which is a rarity because they’re all spread out. So I’m really grateful for that.