It
is always a great day at church when we start the day off with a baptism. And pretty much the whole group that was in
worship joined us on the beach for the baptism.
That would be in the neighborhood of 60 people. I love that Seaside. And being near the beach is not so bad
either.
And
now. The vacation extravaganza has
begun. We left after church. Well, after church and after some last minute
loose ends that we had to tie up before we left. But we are officially on the road. To where?
Ah, yes. That is, indeed , the
question, is it not? I answered it
earlier today this way … “Roughly northeast.
Right now.”
Random
sightings …
“Eat. Fuel.
Flush. Donut Shoppe.” All in the same place. Same sign.
That about covers it, wouldn’t you say?
Moscow. Corinth.
Hmm. That’s Russia and
Greece. Chris drives really fast.
Panola
College. I thought that was a sandwich
shoppe.
Irons
Bayou. One of hundreds of bayous. I just happened to remember this name.
Papa and Nina’s
Farm. We were in the middle of nowhere. A great short cut, you know? Cows everywhere. Trees.
Lots of trees. A dog here and
there. But no people. I guess we just missed Papa and Nina.
We
hit some rain just outside of Marshall, Texas.
Not much rain. Just enough to
wash the bugs off the windshield.
Strangely enough, that’s exactly how much Chris asked for.
We
checked into our hotel in Marshall. You
know how you always take advantage of the situation where you don’t have to pay
the electric bill, so you crank the AC down as low as you can stand it and
crawl directly into bed? Well, this
place was so far ahead of us. When we
entered the room the AC was set on 60 degrees.
And believe me, it worked. We had
to turn it up and leave for some supper to let the room warm up a bit.
Speaking
of supper, we ended up at Chili’s. A
word of warning. The potato soup was
pretty good, but when they brought the ticket Chris noticed something fishy. We asked to see the detail receipt, and they
had charged us for “Table entertainment.”
Hey, all we did at that table was talk to each other, and I didn’t
charge Chris near what was listed on the receipt. They had to redo the whole thing. Watch your receipt when there are table
entertainment screens available. Someone
may have been destroying little aliens before you got there.
Tomorrow
we continue. Generally speaking,
northward. Maybe a little eastward as
well. More to come.
Psalms
102:18 says, “Let this be written for a
future generation, that a people not yet created may praise the Lord”
Father,
thank you for Drake and his baptism.
Thank you for keeping us safe on this first leg of our trip. Please join us for the journey. Amen.
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