KEEPING TRACK OF ERWIN & GAIL: April 2015

It’s time to blog again, although it has been a while since the last post I really don’t have a lot to add to what you already know.

I told you last time we had arrived in Suffolk, VA and had abandoned the camper for a bed in a real room, in a real house with Kym, Brian and the boys. This is where we remained, in complete comfort and being catered to almost continuously, for the next four weeks. While there, we went to places like Jamestown, Williamsburg, and the aquarium at Virginia Beach. We even went to the theatre where we watched a performance of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” which by the way has absolutely nothing to do with cats of any kind. We attended church with the family at a satellite campus of Liberty Baptist Church called Harborview. It is quite a large setting with its own campus pastor but the message comes by live feed from the main campus. It is so well done that it even appears that Pastor Grant is right there in the room. It is so great to hear salvation preached with such passion and absolute truth with no holds barred. Easter weekend we volunteered at the church where they held a massive grocery hand out to the people of less means in the community, this happened for two services on Sat. and three on Sun. During the time there, with Brian’s help, we did some necessary maintenance on the truck and camper as at this point we have pulled the trailer more than 8000 miles, OH I’m sorry, I mean over 12,800 kilometres and have put more than 20,000 kilometers on the truck.

Now, let me tell you about making plans and then having to change those plans time and time again. It was our plan to leave Suffolk and head north to Eastern Canada, stopping at Camp Hill, the WEC US headquarters, in Pennsylvania, on our way, it was our intent to visit with family and friends and attend WEC Canada conference there before we headed to Saskatoon for our granddaughter’s graduation at the end of June. Well, we found ourselves having to change those plans as we realized that the time between the end of conference on the 23^rd and graduation on the 25^th was really not enough time to pull the camper almost 3000 kilometres. Not wanting to miss either the conference or the graduation we decided to head directly to Sask. where we will leave the dog, truck and camper and fly down east. We planned a trip to Camp hill and were really looking forward to that when Kelsey (our very spoiled dog) got sick and had to be hospitalized for 2 days so those plans changed as well and once again we have not seen The Hill.

So, that now brings us to where we are now. We left Suffolk on Wednesday the 15^th and headed west. We took our first campsite, in a month, at a campground on top of the Blue Ridge Mountains. We stayed two nights and drove the Blue Ridge parkway in both directions, during a day almost completely filled with rain, but even then it is a site to see and should be made part of any trip to Virginia. We moved on and camped one night in Frankfort, Kentucky at a nice old campground but there was very limited Wi-Fi, which has become almost a must for us seasoned campers. We stayed the following night in a real rustic campground near Kingdom City, Missouri, which was nice and friendly, but alas, there was no Wi-Fi at all. We arrived here, in St Joseph, Missouri, yesterday after noon and did some grocery shopping and settled down for a good night with excellent Wi-Fi. We decided we would just veg out today and do some blogging and enjoy some down time together and that is where we are right now. Tomorrow we will see some sites here in this really historic town and will tell you about it next time.

And as always, I’ll post this and a few pictures after Gail has had a chance to make most of the words into real words because spelling really does still count.

God Bless. With love