Maxx’s Casa

We arrived to Colorado Springs welcomed with warm smiles and hugs. My Dad grew up in this town and one of his best life long friends happens to live here so he was due a visit. It was good to see Maxx again. The first thing we wanted to do was take showers seeing as how we had sand in our toes. Carroll came home after work and there was another round of smiles and hugs. Maxx and Carroll have three dogs that are all very sweet and loving. We both love dogs so it was nice to be able to pet and play with a dog or three. They treated us to dinner, which was too much since they were letting us stay etc. But we went t o dinner at the Black Bear Diner. This little chain is pretty good. I think it would do well in the mountains of North Carolina but it has not ventured that far east. After a mini tour of Colorado and telling a few stories about my dad we made our way back to the house. Maxx is a wonderful storyteller. He uses his hands and tries to get you involved in the story. He shared with Brad and myself some of his artifacts and the history behind him. He was weapons and tools dating back thousands of years. They are pretty neat. Brad was fascinated by some of them saying, “It is so strange… if you just handed this to me I would have thought it was just a rock. As soon as you explain the use it is so clear what it is.” I guess you have to know what you are looking for. They are part of his history and you can see he takes a little pride in sharing the use and story of the tools.