2011-2012 Travels

This past year was great getting to meet the local Chapter officers and renewing old friendships. I was lucky to travel to Schools in London, Columbus, Norwalk, Norwood, Logan, Findlay, Warren and Middletown. Grand High Priest Receptions in Dayton, London, Mansfield, Columbus, Massilon, Athens, Zanesville, Wadsworth, Spencerville, Norwood, and Findlay. I also attended more than 50  Inspections and events around the state specifically for Royal Arch Chapter. To me, a major part of  Masonry and Chapter in particular is the friendships you make while travelling through the state. Right now, I've had the opportunity to travel to more than 110 of our 147 Chapters throughout the years. Hopefully over the next couple of years I will make it to those I still haven't had the opportunity to visit.

One of the more interesting things about travelling is the bumps in the road you run into while traveling (take into account I live near Dayton Ohio). When you:

• Get on the road and realize the GPS or directions you printed out to take with you are at home
• Show up and find out they moved the location for the meeting and didn't think it was an important detail to publish
• "Convince" your wife to attend a function with you and you find out it was casual instead of formal and there is no program for the ladies
• Get to Cleveland and realize you are not in the vehicle where you have your apron case and red coat
• Get almost to your destination and realize you left the actual address at home
• Drive four hours to get to an event only to have the weather turn bad and need to leave early so you are not stranded
• Stop for gas in Akron and realize you left your wallet at home
• Show up and find out the starting time was changed to a half hour before you arrived
• Figure out they postponed an Inspection and forget to announce it was postponed by the sign on the door of the temple
• Stop for dinner and you end up wearing more than you eat

But I wouldn't trade these experiences for anything as they are what keeps traveling interesting!