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Just a couple of quick thoughts as we have very little internet service until this week-end.
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Can you say really big, these are the redwood trees, they are some of the largest trees in the world!
Most of the big ones were cut down years ago for lumber – such a shame.
While in Tillamook we visited the Tillamook Air Museum which is an aviation museum within a museum. The museum is housed in a former military blimp hangar, called “Hangar B”, which is the largest clear-span wooden structure in the world
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The flowers of the desert are just now starting to pop out of the cactus.
We are happy to be able to attract the hummers back to us.
Of course we went ATVing, here to visit a gold mine.
Gila Bend has one of the largest concentrations of petroglyphs in the world. There are thousands of them in the middle of nowhere covering the size of a football field.
Here is actual graffiti from 1908, the Indian petroglyphs are thousands of years old.
On the way to the site we saw many dust devils.
We stayed across the bridge, north of SF in the town of Novato at Novato RV Park. They are a little pricey for our budget at 80 bucks a day but we are in the SF area. The first day we were to start our SF visit we woke up to start Big Red and the alternator had bitten the dust. We found a shop that could fix it that day and also give us a loaner.
It was a rainy afternoon once we got into the loaner – so we went a visited 3 cheese factories in the area. We ate out very good lunch from the Marin French Cheese Co. at the pond at their creamery. Thanks to CA laws we couldn’t tour any of the factories, guess they think we are germ bags! We did buy cheese at three locations, at Cowgirl Creamery (goat cheese) we not only bought some of their stock but also goat cheese from Greenfield IN Miss Peggy’s home town!
Friday we drove a few miles down the road from Novato RV with a new ($500) alternator to the ferry terminal at Larkspur and took the 30 minute ride to SF. Tens of thousand of people use the Golden Gate Ferry System daily to commute to work in SF. Once there we rode on one of the old trolley cars the F Line to Fisherman’s Wharf. Ferry cost (for old folks) was $5.25 and the F Line was one buck. We had a bunch of points left from Hotels.com so we added a few bucks and stayed at the Holiday Inn at Fisherman’ s Wharf.
We ate lunch at the Pier Market Restaurant at pier 39. It was so good we went back for supper! We had crab, shrimp, cod, etc. Boy were we pigs.
You can’t go to SF with out riding the cable car, we went from one end to the other and back $28 each – what happened to the good prices on the F Line?
A lot of people forked out the $28 for the ride and some of them are commuters!
Check out the Sea Lions. Man I was ready for a nap too!
Gotta see the Golden Gate Bridge (color – international orange).
We took a day tour with Dylan Tours and we can’t recommend them enough. Our guide as born in SF and we (14 people max) on the tour were treated like family. We did stop a Muir Woods, and Miss Peggy & I did a 1 hour hike in the woods.
Check out the size of these trees!
In Sausalito we ate at a hamburger joint that was right out of Soup Kitchen Nazi. People were yelled at for not calling out their orders, and it was only “what do you want on your burger & what to drink, next!” They were lined up in the street. No seating, just pay, take your bag, and get out.This is the view at the dock we sit and ate our very good burger and fries.
Being tourists we went to Alcatraz for a visit!
I had forgotten that for a number of months Native Americans took over Alcatraz.
Another shot of us & the Golden Gate from the north side after the ferry ride back.
We now are on our way up to Oregon and Crater Lake.
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After a number of months of no posting we are back to at least a weekly posting. We are preparing to leave for our Alaska summer trip in 10 days, for the next few days we will give a short recap of our mission work the first quarter of the year.
We spent January in Moreno Valley CA (see the previous post) Here are some of the pictures from our work:
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Saturday November 21
Did I mention how happy we are to be back on our own? We stayed at Honeysuckle Farm RV Park for two night. We got in after dark (broke our own rules) but we didn’t get out of Franklin NC until 2 PM. The Passport America rate is $15 a night for full hookup, a good deal. The owner Mike was away while we where there so we just put our payment in the box in the laundry room used as an honor system for laundry. The park is a lesson in slow development. Mike is trying hard. 15 sites with full hookup, a laundry room, 2 shower/bath rooms. He has a pond for the use of guests, and even has 3 raised bed gardens with two holding new crop of leaf lettuce and the third under cultivation. He is trying hard but the park still needs lots of work. Grass was mowed and picked up, roads were gravel/dirt but usable. Great place for a 2 days stop over. Ten of the sites were being used.
We enjoyed our time at the Air Museum in Warner Robbins. It had great displays on the Flying Tigers and gliders used during D-Day. They had four large buildings, and the last we visited had many aircraft waiting for restoration where we could see the restoration going on – very interesting. We had a late lunch at Martin’s BBQ right across from the base where we had excellent BBQ.
We left Wednesday for Live Oak FL, and with the exception of missing a detour turn and going 1 mile on a loose one lane dirt road we arrived in fine time. We even stopped in downtown Live Oak and picked up our rental car at Enterprise.
That night we took our hosts out to dinner at Cedar River Seafood in Lake City. We all had the same special flounder and shrimp. Large portions but we have had better shrimp.
We left out at 9 AM the next morning with a lunch stop at Skippers Fish Camp in Darien, GA (N of Brunswick). We had planned for a light lunch, but couldn’t resist the last chance at fresh Georgia shrimp. Miss Peggy had a shrimp poor boy with sweet potato souffle. I had a bowl of crab stew with a small shrimp appetizer. Boy oh Boy are we glad we stopped. The shrimp were huge and very, very tasty. My stew was at least 50% real crab meat – no wonder this place is number 2 in the area, and right on the water with views of the shrimp boats!!
We spent the night at a Super 8 in Fayetteville, NC. This was a nice budget motel with a bonus of a well heated salt water indoor poor.
We had supper at Fuller’s Old Fashioned BBQ. I had eaten here a few years ago while on a mission trip to build a house at Bayboro, NC. Fuller’s philosophy is that if it doesn’t seem done – cook it another 15 minutes! It is eastern NC BBQ buffet at its best. Chicken done three ways, four types of beans, two types of okra. Good BBQ and soul food with 15 desserts. Miss Peggy tried the “pork in gravy” which she said was good but chewy.
After finishing it I explained to her why her chitlins were so tasty!!! (A first for her!!)
In the morning we left out after a simple continental breakfast at the Super 8 and fought the rain all the way to Mike & Kellie’s house. The rain won out as we arrived 2 hours behind schedule due to very heavy rain and accidents.
…give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
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Tuesday November 17
We have left Franklin RV Park without major incident. We both feel like we are out of jail. We loved the park, we loved the guests, we loved Franklin (didn’t get to see much of it). The owners are some of the most narcissistic folks we have ever met. We only got into the first week there before they violated our contract with them. A few weeks ago they said they would not pay us our final check – they did give us the final check.
We only got to go gem mining 2 hours, got to one event at the Smoky Mountain Performing Arts Center, got to 4 or 5 movies. We were simply tied to the park. The highlight of our being in Franklin was the fine folks at Franklin Covenant Church. We were welcomed with love, taken into two life groups (whenever we could both get away), taken into small groups, and enjoyed worship. Last Sunday dozens of people surrounded us during the service, prayed over us, and blessed us on our mission journey.
Our near future plans are, today we go to Live Oak, FL; park the fifthwheel at friends land, rent a car and start a two week 2,600 mile trip to see our kids, grandkids, sister, and mom. Mom was 90 last week!! We will spend time at each kid’s house and get together with most of the family the Saturday after Thanksgiving. We have to stop and pickup my custom made shoes on the way back to Florida.
Once in Florida we will have 11 days of R & R, finish a couple of projects on the RV, visit friends, and see our nieces and nephews.
Upon leaving Florida we will work our way out west (slowly) having to be in the southern desert mountains of California for a mission assignment at a Baptist camp. We will spend February and March another mission assignment in Glendale, AZ. Early April we will fly back and see the kids, and late April leave for Alaska.
Pray that all goes smoothly for us. We now are restarting our blog for new adventures lying ahead. Yesterday we went to the Air Force Museum at Warner – Robbins AFB. I spent too much time on my injured foot and am feeling that today.
Peggy (AKA Wild Weasel) in the Wild Weasel Trainer)
Jim in front of one of the Vietnam displays.
How great is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you, which you bestow in the sight of men on those who take refuge in you.
– Psalms 31:19
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Tuesday April 21
Well it’s not all sunny today? Still a few showers, but we mow and mow and mow.
One of Miss Peggy’s projects is to refurbish the two “RV Bus” decorations on the fireplace screen. They are made of copper, brass, & other metals, and haven’t been cleaned since they were installed 3 years ago.
This is all hand work!
Friday April 24
The last two days flew by as we had sunny weather so it was outside work every day. Flower beds to weed, weeds to spray, mowing, trimming and don’t forget the bath house and pavilion to keep clean.
Last week I moved two chairs from Glenville to our fifth wheel. On the left is the leather chair for our office in the fifth wheel, on the right is Miss Peggy’s glider with the mountain print fabric.
Babies R Us had a special deal that beat out Amazon by 50 bucks so we had to buy it. Speaking of purchases we had to buy this freezer. We have a very small location in the garage of the fifth wheel for a freezer. This one fit and it was on sale $70 off – that is 1/3 off.
On Thursday I went to a real nice men’s group at Covenant Community Church and really enjoyed the guys.
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living nomadically
Sitting on the side waiting for the next big adventure
Sitting on the side waiting for the next big adventure
Sitting on the side waiting for the next big adventure
Sitting on the side waiting for the next big adventure
Adventures in Nomadic Serendipity
Sitting on the side waiting for the next big adventure
Sitting on the side waiting for the next big adventure