Sulphur

If I had checked the fuel flow, I would have realized that the fuel was still flowing to the engine and the event was not fuel-related.

I punched nearest on the Garmin GTN 750 GPS, and Orange, Texas was the closest airport at about 11 miles and Sulphur, Louisiana, the next closest, at 20 miles.

Orange has a 5,500-foot asphalt runway and no real services.

Sulphur has a 5,000-foot runway and no services.

Beaumont was the opposite direction and about 23 miles with a 6,750-foot runway that was much wider than both Orange and Sulphur.

I checked my glide ring on ForeFlight to confirm all of these were viable alternatives.

Beaumont was my best choice, and I made the turn back in the direction I had already come.

I was a sophomore in high school when we had our first rope.

And man, I wanted, at the time, I really wasn't sure where my career was going to go, but I wanted the top ropers to come to Sulphur, Louisiana.

um to experience the food uh obviously the people and um and to have a good roping obviously and and you know that thing grew and grew as my career kind of expanded and i never thought we'd be where we are now obviously um let alone you know the 17 nfr called it how big this roping has gotten it's gotten so big pace and and it doesn't like I got to have two of them a year.

I got to have my spring one in March in Waco for my junior event and then and then roll into my to my big invitation on the fall.

Go.

There's a Ball & Go, that's what we call them.

There's a Ball & Go on every street corner in Sulphur, Louisiana.

People boiling crawfish and selling it.

Uh, but I work in Southwest Louisiana, our, our, the heel of the boot there in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

But I work in Sulphur, which is kinda like on the other side of the river.

Um, but I'm a fireman there.

Yes, ma'am.

And, and you said you're a chaplain?

I'm stuck in it.

I'm also the fire chaplain for, uh, Sulphur Fire Department.

Yes, sir.