This is the third installment of a series of reflections on our wonderful summer vacation. 4. What would you do the same / differently? I would certainly do this trip again, but so much was so clearly owing to the grace of God that simply can’t be prescribed for another. This includes: Visiting our long-time… Read More »
I am going to continue reflecting on our family vacation by using the questions posed by my friend. 3. How did you try to blend family, friends, fun, education, and shepherding? Perhaps some people sit down and think out strategies for this but I work rather intuitively in such matters (for good or for ill).… Read More »
A friend with a young family has written and asked me to go beyond the “what we did today” level given in this series about our family’s vacation. Initially I was resistant but he helped by suggesting five questions. That moves it from the general to the specific and makes the task more appealing. I… Read More »
We made it home. According to the GPS, we drove 5,214 miles. According to the car’s odometer (which we never turned off), we drove a few more. It was a fantastic trip. Some careful readers know that the whole record of it was delayed by three weeks. My initial thought was to “tweet” the trip… Read More »
When I was planning this trip, I thought it would be a bit too much to drive 17 hours (plus stops) from Charleston to home. Along the way is Nashville and since no one in our family has spent any time there, I thought it would work out well to cut the driving into two… Read More »
After a relaxing morning (are we allowed that on a vacation?), we left our friend Becky’s home and drove through Pennsylvania, the Maryland panhandle, and through the mountains of West Virginia to our hotel in Charleston. It rained a good bit as we drove and though the scenery was interesting, at no point did we… Read More »
Today was a day with friends. After a morning drive, we enjoyed lunch at the home of an Old Testament professor and his family. To this point, our relationship had been through books (me reading his) and email, and it was a great privilege to spend the afternoon with him, his wife, and his daughter… Read More »
The Jerusalem Post has a timeline of the attacks near Eilat. It looks like the 16-volume collection of William M. Ramsay has come down from $30 to $20 in the last week. A few more orders will push the price down to $15. Here’s a “really cool God story” that happened last week to a… Read More »
I appreciate the encouraging words written in the comments about these vacation posts. It is enjoyable to share our blessings. Today was to be our “New York” day. Though we did not spend a single night on this trip inside New York, we had a lot of ground to cover today between Vermont and our… Read More »
The state of Vermont is beautiful in the summer. Today we drove through some very scenic areas, but I only took photos of the place where we did a more extended hike. The city of Stowe is famous for various activities and businesses, but we limited our time there to walking around the town and… Read More »