LCU Is On The Map

Thanks to an app, people from all over may be coming to see special spots on campus and here's how we found out about it.

I'm taking my morning stroll around campus, picking up trash to put in the new trash cans (wonderful addition to the mall area -- thanks, Mike).  I pause to take a video that I'm going to send to all of you, titled "It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood," when something amazing happens.  

I see Abraham Mata walking an elderly couple across campus, taking them, I think, to Starbucks. Moments later he comes up and says, "you will never guess what just happened."

He was typing on the computer in his office, "putting the icing on the cake on today's Portuguese class," when this couple poked their heads into his office. They were looking for John Wayne and their GPS had directed them to the CAA.

Abraham offered to walk them to the library to see the head.  I went in to visit with them and took their picture, in the attachment above. They are Gene and Margie Kimzey from Albuquerque, just on a driving trip, and they stop and look at interesting things.  

But wait, there's more.  

Gene asked me if I knew about the app game called Ingress.  He explained that it is sort of like geocaching, except it's all digital.  Players find places/structures/nature spots and get points.  They play on teams, the red and the blue.  He showed me some game rules and moves. But more importantly, LCU has two items in the game -- and they are not the head of John Wayne. They are the Ebeneezer Stone and the Chap. Well, they said the roadrunner, but I explained about the Chap, about El Paisano, and bought them coffee at Starbucks.

Ingress is an international digital game and LCU has at least two places to tag.   

What a serendipity on a glorious morning at LCU.  

Susan B.