In our experience of the holidayish things to do in central Florida the best park by far was Busch Gardens, because they had the most roller coasters and the Franz Ride Crew approves of their roller coasters, especially the Sheikra. The only problem with Busch was the heat. It was well into the 90's with high humidity. Thank goodness for water rides!! The most underwhelming park was Universal Studios.
We left Bush Gardens and traveled for several hours to Madison, FL where we spent Thursday night.
On Friday we traveled west through Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and into Texas. We saw some of the remainders of the hurricane damage as we traveled north of New Orleans. We saw signs for Pass Christian and Bayou La Batre where Grace Church people have served over the past year. It was neat to follow where some of our people have gone to serve in the name of Christ.
We traveled across Texas yesterday evening and today - Saturday - (there are 880 miles on I-10 in Texas). It's a really big state. The best part about West Texas is that about an hour west of San Antonio the speed limit jumps to 80 mph (it was like Christmas morning for me). I quite like traveling at 85-90 mph! Joan advised me not to go over 90. If the pastoring thing washes out I might try to become a race car driver.
We are in El Paso, TX tonight. We decided to meet the team from Grace here rather than go through the mountain passes on two lane roads and attempt to cross the border by ourselves and find our way to Hans and Irene's without a good Mexican atlas. It's probably an extra 100 miles but it seems like it was a good decision. We arrived at the agreed upon hotel and within 2 minutes the team from Winkler pulled up and we met them here. It's been great to get caught up with them and to see someone whom we know. Hans and his two youngest boys (Karl and Kevin) are also here. It's been wonderful to see Hannah and Jeff get caught up with friends whom they haven't seen for some time.
Tomorrow the plan is to cross the border and travel together with Hans and the Grace team to Campo 61 1/2 and do some sightseeing in the afternoon and evening. As far as I can tell on Monday morning we get to start work. I'm looking forward to that.
There is within me both excitement and nervousness as this next part of our adventure begins. As we drove into El Paso tonight we could see across the border into Mexico and I felt those mixed emotions. We have never self-navigated in Mexico and we're not sure how that will go. We have never chosen a restaurant to eat in by ourselves in Mexico and I know all too well how sick I or any one of us can get if we choose badly. We know almost no Spanish except to ask where the bathroom is. That's important information to be able to get but it's not much of a conversation. So there is still much that we're not sure about but we are looking forward to it.
We wish all of you who will read this God's richest blessings. We have enjoyed our time to date immensely but we also realize that the holidays are over now and that the other part of our sabbatical now begins. I'm glad it's here but I'm not sure how it will turn out. God Bless you all!!
We left Bush Gardens and traveled for several hours to Madison, FL where we spent Thursday night.
On Friday we traveled west through Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and into Texas. We saw some of the remainders of the hurricane damage as we traveled north of New Orleans. We saw signs for Pass Christian and Bayou La Batre where Grace Church people have served over the past year. It was neat to follow where some of our people have gone to serve in the name of Christ.
We traveled across Texas yesterday evening and today - Saturday - (there are 880 miles on I-10 in Texas). It's a really big state. The best part about West Texas is that about an hour west of San Antonio the speed limit jumps to 80 mph (it was like Christmas morning for me). I quite like traveling at 85-90 mph! Joan advised me not to go over 90. If the pastoring thing washes out I might try to become a race car driver.
We are in El Paso, TX tonight. We decided to meet the team from Grace here rather than go through the mountain passes on two lane roads and attempt to cross the border by ourselves and find our way to Hans and Irene's without a good Mexican atlas. It's probably an extra 100 miles but it seems like it was a good decision. We arrived at the agreed upon hotel and within 2 minutes the team from Winkler pulled up and we met them here. It's been great to get caught up with them and to see someone whom we know. Hans and his two youngest boys (Karl and Kevin) are also here. It's been wonderful to see Hannah and Jeff get caught up with friends whom they haven't seen for some time.
Tomorrow the plan is to cross the border and travel together with Hans and the Grace team to Campo 61 1/2 and do some sightseeing in the afternoon and evening. As far as I can tell on Monday morning we get to start work. I'm looking forward to that.
There is within me both excitement and nervousness as this next part of our adventure begins. As we drove into El Paso tonight we could see across the border into Mexico and I felt those mixed emotions. We have never self-navigated in Mexico and we're not sure how that will go. We have never chosen a restaurant to eat in by ourselves in Mexico and I know all too well how sick I or any one of us can get if we choose badly. We know almost no Spanish except to ask where the bathroom is. That's important information to be able to get but it's not much of a conversation. So there is still much that we're not sure about but we are looking forward to it.
We wish all of you who will read this God's richest blessings. We have enjoyed our time to date immensely but we also realize that the holidays are over now and that the other part of our sabbatical now begins. I'm glad it's here but I'm not sure how it will turn out. God Bless you all!!
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