Thursday July 5, 2018
Yes going back 7 years, time has gone by so fast as I Listen to Jimi Hendricks' Electric lady land. As I post in my last update 2010, life was changing and a bigger power was preparing me to the present and the future is coming fast.
As I go back in time 2011, the third year of grad school
and my daily life I have now seen many connections and ironies to where I am
now in 2018. Life is funny that way. If you know me, you will see where this chapter in my
life, was a preparation to eight chapters later. As I look back and revise my
thought from 2011, I will be making a few present comments as to how things
relate and have come to be. If you go back to my post from 2011, some major events took place that I will re-introduce as references to the year. You can always go back and read those full post for more refection.
(Every thing in Italics is present (2018). Let's get started.
January started with a few unknowns for what was to come my way, as you recall I was looking into the opportunity to bring more cyclist to San Elizario via the ACA Southern Tier Rout. The relationship with Christina and Maya Sanchez was getting better and close nit, where we would spend more time going over ideas to help with the Historical district. This would be year 2 of my own training for long bicycle ride in 2015. Well as you can see by now part of our work at the city now has been to continue to work on those plans at a bigger level.
January 2, 2011 ·
Good
Morning, it’s cold outside, having coffee and getting ready for an early
morning Sunday Bicycle ride to Clint to attend a Memorial Mass for (+) Rogelio
Vargas Sr. I will ride in his memory; I use to see him (my Tio Roy)
almost every Sunday outside the church when I rode to Clint. We always had a
short conversation and he all ways gave me his blessing as I rode off.
January 4, 2011 ·
Graduate
school just got more confusing. I don’t have a course this semester, but I will
still be busy preparing for an Education Comprehensive Exam in June 2011, and
ASE Re-certification Exams in May 2011. I am off to the library to research
what I will have to do, so I can finally Graduate in Summer 2011. Hope I can
keep up with all the requirements and meet all deadlines.
This is where things got complicated and I would not complete grad-school until Dec 2012. I would also let all my ASE certification's laps those complicating my opportunists to teach.
January 5, 2011 ·
Looks
like I will not go to Red Paint Powwow in Silver City, NM this year, instead I
will have to attend a Comprehension Exam Work Shop in Portales, NM in February,
I’m investing my traveling cash into my education lol. However, I might still
take a trip to Silver City, NM in spring, maybe a bike ride from Deming, New
Mexico to the City of Rocks and into Silver City.
My trip to Portales was not needed as I took some on-line workshops to help with my exam. The bike ride from Deming to Silver city as also was a bust. I was not able to do that due to some other issues.
How
ironic and cool is this, I was just watching The Cult on In sessions, A few
years ago me and Big John Fernandez use to listen to the Cult every time we
were getting ready to go along Harley Run. Today I will ride a Bicycle with
some good friends and I got pumped by the Cult. How Cool is that?
This was the First of many Birthday Bicycle rides to Come. On this day I was joined by Maya and Christine Sanchez (now Perez).
Distance 19.25 mi | Duration 3:00:00 |
Bottom of FormJanuary 10, 2011
I found out that , the 2011
Red Paint Pow Wow Cancelled. "Regrettably, the decision was made to cancel
the Powwow for January, 2011. A press release will be sent out locally and to
the surrounding communities. A number of factors played a part in the decision,
including the lack of contributions." Red Paint Tribal Council (They have yet to bring back the Powwow to Silver City)
January 18, 2011 ·
Time
to polish-up my “Time Management Skills” for 2011, I can’t take courses at ENMU
until summer, I can’t take the Comprehensive Education Exam until June. Yes, I
am on my own now have to prep for the exam, re-certify,(ASE certification) in
May, so what do I do? I enrolled in a Continuing Education course (Home
Gardening in El Paso). Need to create an action plan, so I can study, please
get my résumé updated.
In February as I continued my studies and training for that long bicycle ride I ventured on different rides and routs. Read more on one ride posted back in 2011 Under El
Paso Rio Bosque
March 20, 2011
In March part of the training included climbing hills, well on challenge would be going up to I-10 top of the hill Mamacita's Bar and Grill, with a few friends Jason, Isela Reyes and Chuck Salcido. See photos:
November 2018:
I had to stop writing for what I thought would be one or two days, but again life gets in the way. So I will post this much today and get back to the rest of my notes later. I think its better to post in sections rather the try and get the whole year down before I post.
Walked in to Mom’s Kitchen today and
it took me back to my childhood and my visits’ to Tia Perta Alamanzars’ kitchen
(house), the smell of fresh homemade tortilla and Chile Colorado in the air
took me back 30 years. Thanks mom for great food today.
When I posted this seven years I started to realize and appreciate my mom and her Tia's and Grandmothers for all they thought me. As you read below a shot conversation with on of my cousins:
Gloria Guerra "It's funny.....when we were small we never gave it
thought....this was our lifes,we'd come home from school, work...and there was
ALWAYS!!!, homemade tortillas, beans chile colorado ......kool-aid, fresh
squeeze lemonade....NOW the question we ask .''O.K. where do you want to go
eat"....we have to stop and think that we SHOULD leave some of the LOVE
too......"
Me: "You are right coming home from school,
we always had something to look forward to, I remember when Tia Paubla (Your
Grandma) would come to the house to use my mom's oven to bake bread. I am thankful that I still have Tia's that make good food and have shown me how to cook."
Yes many years late most recently after my Mom was called home to the spirit world, do I undersand that good food will always be hard to find. These days I try and make some of those dishes to the best of my ability to keep it traditional.
April 2011
This was the year I was first contacted by a cross county Cyclist (conversation and events as follows and a briff post with photos was posted back in 2011)
Just
heard from
Coast
2 Coast Warrior Ride rep, he said they should be in El Paso sometime this
afternoon, and start the ride to Del Rio Monday am, I will do my best to escort
them through El Paso as far as Fabens. I'll keep you all posted.
To,
David Cantu
From: Allen
Sent: Sun 4/17/11 9:37 PM
We
will be leaving El Paso from the corner of Texas 76 and Lee Travino Blvd at
about 8AM. Hope to see you!
Allen
April 18, 2011
Just
got home a about 1/2 a hour ago, I had a nice Ride to Fabens from Clint on
Northloop with Jason Rogers from
Coast 2 Coast Warrior Ride, he will be going
through TX the next few days, Jason asked if I had friends in Austin, TX, they
hope to have some more friends join them as they get to Austin so Family be on
the lookout for him.
Day
9
By
Jason A Rogers on Monday, April 18, 2011 at 10:41pm
Day
9. We're in Van Horn, Texas. Found a nice hotel and had dinner at the El
Capitan. Very good and filling. I rode 130 miles today for a total of 1,015
miles in 9 days. We met David Cantu of El Paso and he rode with me for nearly
10 miles. What a nice guy! I had a strong tail wind for most of the ride and
was flying down I-10! Yep. You can ride your bike on the Interstate in Texas.
Tomorrow we head for Del Rio, Texas.
More on 2011 to be continued: