Saturday, June 13, 2009

Day 11 - Nampa to Klamath Falls

First....An apology to Kim's Mom - Mrs. B of Burns, OR. I PLANNED to call you when we hit Burns today....but we had to have a tire repaired and I forgot all plans.

Second....Jared shares a funny traveling story on his blog. You can learn a lot reading your son's blog.

Third...White Truck count today - 260....can you believe that? Down from 1,000 in CO/SD.....Krista won the tally today.

Fourth...Candy - what a sweet message you sent via Beth. Thanks for your prayers...and thanks for the prayers of all....I DO stop about hourly in the afternoon.....and I have taken to buying a giant bag of M/M's for the afternoon drive....plain and simple I have a hard time driving for long periods of time on a hwy in the afternoon. ::snort::

We said a sad goodbye to our buddies and headed down the road. We have two more days of travel - today and tomorrow - and then we'll be in ONE SPOT for 10 days. YES. Yes, I cried and that was SILLY....shoot....I'll not see the B family for 3 years but that is about what we have been averaging in the last decade anyway. ::snort::

Jared and I started the day in the Toyota. Jared took this photo...jared's barn


I took this one....
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...and this one...see the mother's ring? LOL
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We drove through miles and miles of rolling, farm and ranch land....
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Trailer repairs
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Choosing Joy!
©2009 D.R.G.

~ Coram Deo ~
Living all of life before the face of God...

Day 10 - Camping Buddies

There are times when you make friendships that you simply KNOW will last a lifetime. Our friendship with the B family is such. We've been friends since college days. We've camped together, laughed together and cried together. We spent Friday with them.
Stacia wholeheartedly approves of Sweet Sarah's new husband, Jason.
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Don has a birthday.....
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Believe it or not, getting ON is the easy part! ::snort::
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Jason assists Don off the trampoline.
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Jordan demonstrates his unicycle
Jordan unicycle


Don, Jordan, Mike and Jared worked on a shed. Jared shares his unique perspective of our trip and his adjustments on his blog. Check here and here for his thoughts on the day in ID.
Beth and I went shopping, chatted, fixed dinner, did laundry, chatted, picked up a birthday cake and RAINIER CHERRIES....dinner was wonderful and after dinner we played rousing rounds of Mafia.
Thanks, B family, for being willing to give Beatrix a home and for hosting us on our manic trip across the U.S.

Oh - Mom Jared has some photos of he and the kids in Hardin here.

Choosing Joy!
©2009 D.R.G.

~ Coram Deo ~
Living all of life before the face of God...

Super Size Saturday - SUMMER READING

Please share your summer reading "program" with us.

We've done a variety of things....topics which we all find books on, reading races, library summer reading programs... so far the grand summer reading program of 2009 consists of reading hwy road signs, KOA directories and maps. ::snort::

Share your ideas in the comment section or share the link to a blog post on the topic. Thanks.



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Choosing Joy!
©2009 D.R.G.

~ Coram Deo ~
Living all of life before the face of God...