I'll start with this. If I friend request you, I already fanned. That is, unless your profile is set to friends only, in which case I will when you let me know you accepted.
ADDENDUM!!! I have modified this. If you are below level 90, I will not fan you until you need that for leveling. I don't even track who fans me.

I'm a disabled Veteran who used to collect ex wives. Looking back, I am the poster child for the "catch and release" program.
I have a lot of physical challenges and I have made a lot of workarounds in my life. In August 2022 I started using a wheelchair and have gotten back into bowling especially with the American Wheelchair Bowling Association and the Paralyzed Veterans of America who host tournaments for wheelchair bowlers in several locations around the US.

I am also an Allumni with the Wounded Warrior Project

I have a rather healthy diet which makes it possible to keep my weight in control while I'm home but I find great restaurants whenever I'm traveling.

I road trip a lot. Since the shutdowns started in 2020, I have driven more than 115,000 miles in 48 states. My goal is not to visit all 50, but to visit every single county. I am now about 89% complete with 32 states where I have visited every single county. I recently updated several of my state maps. I have met people in every state and have become permanent friends with many of them, and send postcards when I visit some interesting places, and in one particular case, I sent a birthday gift because the location's name fit and I was there by coincidence right before her birthday.


This first map shows how I recorded my completion of the state of West Virginia in December 2020. I had completed North Carolina in July.


This is my recent update, after adding places I spent the night, and my plans for March and April driving to and from the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic in Snowmass Aspen, CO.

For the rest of 2025, my road trips include:
Massanutten VA Ski Resort Feb 15 for a day of adaptive sports skiing
Wintergreen VA Ski Resort Feb 18 for a day of adaptive sports skiing
Romeoville IL for the American Wheelchair Bowling Association bowling tournament.
Omaha NE for the Paralyzed Veterans of America National Wheelchair Bowling Tournament. Last year I finished second behind my twin brother
Hopewell VA for the PVA Brawl fishing tournament. I won last year
Minneapolis MN for my second National Wheelchair Games - I won gold in Novice Class 5 last year
Richmond VA for the PVA/AWBA bowling tournament. I won last year
Providence RI for the American Wheelchair Bowling Association tournament. I won there last year
Henderson NV for a wheelchair bowling tournament
I am also considering another tournament in San Antonio, TX but that would be so close to the tournament in Romeoville that I would have to drive from one to the other before driving home.
I am also considering driving an epic trip after the Omaha tournament to the Wheelchair games in Minneapolis. I would have 18 days to travel the northwest.

As a Veteran, I am fortunate that I don't have PTSD or TBI. Some of the things I have seen on here I believe could trigger someone suffering with those so I am very conscience of the Veteran suicide problem and Veteran homelessness.
I did not serve just to hear people say, Thank you for your service. Sometimes it makes me uncomfortable. It was a privilege to serve, I have been able to visit some very interesting places around the world, and have made thousands of friends in every place I served. Going along with my traveling, I have had a few dinners paid for me by someone I just met, or the business itself. I go out of my way to find small ma and pa restaurants when possible.

Two hobbies I have are gardening, both flowers and vegetables, and birdwatching. I don't take either to extreme, and I have only medium success in them. I'll share some photos of the birds who came to my window for seeds. I use a garden stool that I can sit on and move myself around my yard.

Below are the fubar friends I have met in person. Many will recognize the first one we lost just a few months after we met. No links to pages.