How ABCers Spent their Summer Vacation

Lila Carl
It is traditional that we go to Crested Butte Colorado for two weeks where
we share a condo with friends from Austin. We sometimes take a two or three
day horse trip, hike, play tennis, white water raft, and play vicious volley
ball most evenings. For the last five years, I have hiked to the top of Mt.
Crested Butte (12,400 ft.) to celebrate my birthday.

Darleen Martin - (second from the left in picture below)
On Saturday, June 19, 2004, I was blessed to complete my second marathon. As many of you know, I have been training to walk a marathon in Anchorage, AK for the past six months. I raised funds for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of America. The culmination of this effort is the marathon (26.2 miles) in Alaska. What a glorious opportunity. Alaska was gorgeous and the weather was perfect for the race. On Saturday, the temperature was a perfect 75 degrees. We started the race at 8:00 AM and it took me 7:16:14 hours to complete the walk. We walked through God’s country, looking at mountains and streams and wild flowers for most of the route. It took me longer than I had planned, but I finished with no blisters or physical ailments. It was worth the trip.

Julie Clark
spent a wonderful vacation in Hawaii. (She won last year's Luau on the Lake raffle)...
Lucky gal.