When I was called in late November that the 1171st would officially be on active duty on December 1; was informed that Christmas leave would be from December 23 to January 1. Being I didn't have the money for a plane ticket, I first thought about using the leave to visit relatives in Lubbock, Texas. However, a charter bus was worked out and took the bus home for Christmas. 23 miserable hours were endured on the crowded bus that had air conditioning problems. I did manage to grab a couple of caches in Texas to add that state to my geo-profile. At one cache I did introduce a young soldiers to my sport. The cache was a simple park and grab skirtlifter.
Arriving home I did spend a lot of time with my family attending Christmas service at the Methodist Church in Dresden. Completed some geocaching and returned to the Land Between the Lakes hiking to Fence Line and working the hard terrain at Panther Creek Spring. Also picked up a cool location cache Standing Rock Bridge.
On New Year's Day, I once again said goodbye to my family boarded the bus for another 23 hour trip.
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