Campaign Launch

Back Home Again with new shoes ready for the 2nd Half. Still building the site and had very poor connectivity on my walk and had to conserve cell phone battery. But here I am finally. 03-11-2026

Dear Fellow Texans

My Public March 3rd kickoff of my campaign by "walking to Austin" from Corpus Christi in Portland during Spring Break for Texans is to get national media attention, and grassroots support to get 50,000 plus signatures by June 25th to be placed on the ballot.

The departure date is symbolic to boycott the Primaries that favors these mega Political Parties that are tone death to our needs, aspirations, and desires. Same ice-cream; just a different flavor, enabling each other, and corrupting everything they touch.

The turf war push button propaganda between the parties has degenerated to a shocking low level of lies and defamation that has no relation to our daily lives and concerns. I have long since turned off the News which has reinforced and reinvigorated my connection with the Gift of Life and our Loving Creator. I am sure semi retirement has had something to do with it which has allowed me to get out of the frenetic world of the work place.

We Catholics see the human condition as intrinsically good as created, but wounded by the Fall, while the Protestant view of the human condition is traditionally rooted in a Doctrine of total depravity which I was reminded of as I talked with Pastors along the trail.

But what I found beautiful about them was they received me with graciousness with an open door, and agreed to pray for me though they see little room for hope in this world.

But having prayed the Our Father on a daily basis all my life - a prayer of Hope given to us by Jesus Himself - I believe His gift of love will always prevail and that His Will will always be done on earth as it is Heaven. Darkness cannot dispel light. It makes no sense.

All the beautiful and generous Texans that stopped to offer me a ride very quickly learned: "I don't need a ride because I'm walking to Austin", Beautiful people who genuinely care for their neighbor and the stranger as if one of their own.

What a contrast to the political party politicians who would have us lock away our Faith and Christian principles in our Sunday piety box and act like heathens the rest of the week and hate the stranger and neighbor.

The Texans I met would reply as we parted that they'd "love to give me a ride", but saw I was "resolved and resolute" to walk to Austin.

Over 3 days I averaged 30 miles a day passing through Refugio, Goliad and Yorktown following the historical roots of Texas along El Camino Royal trail to Austin and meeting Texans of all walks of life who feel that its time for something different that neither party has to offer. Perhaps we are ready to elect a Texas Governor of the people.

We are a Christian Nation established by mostly Christian and God faring people along Christian principles with many people of other religions living among us, because they love and admire our principles of Religious Freedom based on our combined historical experience. For this they prefer to live among us even with our flawed history.

But now members of both parties have risen as Theologians and Constitutional Historians to rewrite falsehoods as truth to suite the agendas of their respective parties.

They act like apostates in doing so as if the owner of the vineyard is never coming back. God doesn't need their weapons to help him who can turn stones into bread if he so wished.

I for one have had enough and feel the call to be "resolute and resolved" in the face of every discouragement to bring hope to my fellow Texans.

I don't see anyone else doing it and am propelled by faith and my walk with my loving God Who Delivers and restores Hope when all seems lost.

At the mid-way point of my walk to Austin, my wife joined me at the Yorktown Inn and Suites and I decided to go back to Portland to pick up better shoes as I had struggled with my Nikes and Stance socks nearly the whole 90 miles over my 3 days of walking to that half way point.

But most of all, a large inflamed bump developed on my back during the Beach to Bay walk during my training period 3 weeks back which faded, but which had flared into an abscess over my 3 days walk, and required a doctor's visit.

But will be finishing the walk once these problems are addressed. I am rearing to go again as thee opportunity again rises! I have already bought a better pair of Hoka shoes as pictured in my photo above. I see the doctor again in the morning. Will keep you updated.

My next 3 blogs will be with photos, videos, and antidotal accounts of my Spring Break 3 day-90 mile Trek.