Our time in the Dallas area was all about people. We enjoyed three days of meeting up with old friends. Everyone agreed this was a major highlight of our trip. The centerpiece of our visit was our time at Trinity Bible Church, our home congregation for our six years in Dallas. Kelli and I loved… Read More »
Be careful what you say. Someone once told me they liked my vacation posts on this blog. I remember that. Thus you get what follows. When we lived in Texas, we did four major three-week summer vacations (we missed the first summer because Kelli broke her ankle). The first was to the west, but the… Read More »
I haven’t done this in a few years, but it’s a little less intimidating to write up a weekend trip than a weeks-long summer vacation. Friends in our Sunday School class invited us to stay at their place near Yosemite last weekend, and we were able to make it an extended three-day trip because Monday… Read More »
Last year I took a risk and asked for suggestions for our summer trip. (The risk, in part, is related to offending someone if we do not take the suggestion.) It worked out better than we could hope, not only with some very good ideas for places to visit but also with an invitation to… Read More »
It might be a bad idea to solicit suggestions on this blog for a few reasons. But on the possibility that someone might really help, I’m going to give it a shot. I’ve never been to New England. Nor has Kelli. We guess that we ‘re probably never going to get any closer than we… Read More »
Just a little reminder in case you didn’t hear: you have exactly 14 days to renew your passport or add pages before the prices go the opposite direction of Obama’s approval ratings. A new adult passport goes from $100 to $135. A kids ‘ passport, good for a measly 4.5 years will be $105. If… Read More »
I’m back home from a quick trip to California. Some of you prayed; thank you. A few observations: 1. My first impression when I got out of the airport was how beautiful southern California was. I was looking at some very green hills. I haven’t seen that since I last left Texas. 2. I have… Read More »
If you’ve never been to a conference of the Evangelical Theological Society and you wonder what you might hear there, I thought I’d give you a list of the presentations I attended. In most cases, the presenter reads his paper. Sometimes he hands out his paper or an outline. There were many sessions… Read More »
Most of my time in New Orleans was spent in hotel rooms – either in mine sleeping or in conference rooms listening. But I did get out for meals and to walk from one hotel to another. That afforded me a few opportunities to experience the culture. Here are a few things I learned. I… Read More »
It doesn’t look like I’m going to have much time to write about our long summer drive, not to mention the fact that I’m forgetting what I was going to write about. But I haven’t forgotten how beautiful everything was. Truly, the West is beautiful. (The East cannot compare.) I think that every state was… Read More »