We played with yoga asana and kettlebells this morning, finally! Yesterday was a 15+ hour drive from Jackson, Mississippi to Lubbock, Texas. We stopped in Arlington, Texas to see my first home. I lived there until I was eight years old and my father moved our family to Westlake, California and then Moorpark, California. Seeing my old home make my stomach turn just a bit, not in a bad way, but in a nervous sort of way. I’m not entirely sure why, but I became a bit churned up as we got closer. All I remember, really, was the the canal in the back yard. Yes, we just walked straight out there! The sidewalk where my brother would launch his bike (and body) into the canal was still there. The canal of course was still there. That’s about all I remembered from my childhood.

We tried visiting Michael Bussey’s gym, formerly knows as the 303 Gym, but couldn’t find it. We spent nearly an hour trying to find a place to get online to look him up, but failed miserably. By this time, we were both hungry and cranky. My hips were aching and I needed to eat. We left the area and lo and behold, a Schlotzsky’s showed up with free internet access. I discovered that Michael Bussey’s gym is now called The Gym, and was only a few miles from my old house. It’s a phenomenal place I would have liked to have seen, but that’s that. We were already an hour behind schedule on our longest driving day (800 miles) and were out of the area.

On a whim I looked up MMA gyms near Salt Lake City and found one very close by where we’ll be run by Jeremy Horn, a former RBWI student. This coincidence is very cool, as I met him nearly 16 years ago in an RBWI summer camp. I’m not interested in competing, but am looking for established well-rounded gyms with kettlebells, combat and martial arts, movement arts and more, and it looks like Salt Lake City is on the move.