This is one of only a few images I’ll be posting from this past weekend. I took a road trip to the area where I was born… a place I haven’t even visited in about 13 years.

I was born in Odessa, Texas, which is very much in West Texas… the desert, for most of you. It had an oil-driven economy, and that’s why my family was there. My dad was transferred to Nigeria (in Africa) in 1988, and it was at that point that my mom, brother and I moved to my parents’ home town or Orange, where I spent the rest of my youth.

I stayed in Midland during this trip, with my kindergarten teacher and her husband. But I drove the 20 miles over to Odessa a couple of times to see the place I had so many memories of. I took many pictures, but they were mostly digital. This particular one was shot in RAW mode, so I at least had that in mind for certain shots I figured I would post here. More information about my trip will be posted soon at CrazyWalker.