Traveling to Albuquerque to visit Mom
Wherein Facebook, family, friends, and providence pave the way…
On October 2, 2010, after 87 years of a sometimes difficult and often blessed life my father passed away.
During the months before his death, and after, I was in frequent contact with my mom and we were trying to figure out how I could raise the money to take a trip to New Mexico. Several times my mom encouraged me not to come yet (because I could only come once if I could raise the funds), and then my father passed. At the time of his passing, literally the weekend I learned about it, our minivan broke down on the highway.
Back in 2007 and for part of both 2006 and 2008 I was unemployed and we had a zero-income
