Most every single day, Josiah and I take a ride.  It’s become such a ritualistic part of our morning that almost immediately after breakfast, Josiah walks to the back door and waits. He knows.

He knows we will get out of the house for a while.  We will either take a walk (not very often with this scorching Texas heat), go for a bike ride (I do all the pedaling and Josiah rides behind in the bike trailer, dangling beads and bouncing along the way) or go for a ride in the cool and comfortable air conditioned van. Usually, we go for a ride in the van.

Most often, there is no destination in mind when we ride.  We just strap in and go.  Sometimes we drive to the beach.  We ride along the seawall from one end to the other then turn around and come back home. Sometimes we drive up into town.  Many times we drive around the local neighborhoods .

Lately, I’ve started snapping pictures on our outings.  It adds a sense of purpose I suppose.  It’s become sort of an adventure to look for new or unusual sights along the way.

Here are some of our most recent discoveries:

Kite Surfing at the Texas City Dike

These guys were amazing.  We sat and watched them for quite a while.

Early morning in Kemah

It was such a quiet, peaceful morning.  Too bad we were on private property and couldn’t stay.

Art Car near NASA

We spotted this gem just a few cars in front of us.  Of course I had to follow it.  The tricky part was trying to capture decent pictures while racing down the freeway.  Only had to stalk the guy for 5-6 miles but with no where to go, we had nothing but time.

Side view

The wording above the driver says ‘womenthatrocks.com’  Take a second and check out the website.  Pretty cool.

Notice the eye lashes, glasses, nose and lips!

Art car from the front (picture taken from website)

You just never know what treasures are out and about waiting to be found.  While most of the adolescents (and some adults) in the world are racing about looking for Pokemon, Josiah and I are quite content creating our own excitement. Just look at what we discovered not too far from home.

And I didn’t use one bit of data to find these!