Day 27 – July 5 – Phoenix, Arizona (concluded)

This is a record 3rd blog post of the day. It was a day that actually started last night in St. Louis watching the Cardinals and a 21-hour drive across half the country to tonight’s game at Chase Field in Phoenix. It was a fun time at the game with Doug and Julie and I had another surprise at the game. I had a call from Marty Skelly who also lives in the area and came to the game and we got together. Marty is Jerry Skelly’s dad who we spent the better part of a day with on the trip Tuesday into Atlanta and watching the Braves that night. Jerry made sure that Marty knew what was going on, but I didn’t know if he would call or not. We spent most of the time with our visit talking about our respective fantasy football seasons that are just around the corner. I met
Marty about 20 years ago when he was recruited into the fantasy football leagues I was running at the time. The first time we met was in one of the skyscrapers in Seattle at 2 Union Square where the draft was being held and we’ve known each other ever since. After all of the travel we just took it easy eating a bit of the ballpark food trying to regulate our systems a bit. We’ve kind of been all over the place with the extreme amount of travel in the last 4 days. Since Sunday it’s been Chicago-Pittsburgh-Atlanta-St. Louis-Phoenix. We should have a show on the Travel Channel with all of this traveling. After the game it was back to Doug and Julie’s for a limited amount of visiting before we crashed for the night. I will have a bit more about our visit in a post before we leave Phoenix tomorrow morning.