Travel Day - Home to Tannersville, Pennsylvania

Yesterday's post went up late last night so you may have missed it. You can read it HERE. This post is going up Friday evening and Odie should have her post ready mid morning on Saturday as usual.

We were ready to roll shortly before 8:00 AM Friday morning as Dad and Mom pulled into the Lazy OD Ranch with Odie. She loaded in the bus and then we stopped a moment for one more picture before we hit the road.

We drove about 554 miles in about 9 hours and 15 minutes so it was a pretty good day of travel with only about 40 minutes of stops. The weather was perfect! We saw some beautiful sights going across I-80 in Pennsylvania and finally stopped at a rest area near the New Jersey state line.

Kelly had a wonderful supper prepared when we arrived and now we plan to lay down a few hours. If all goes well, we will leave here about midnight and skirt around the north side of New York City while the traffic is hopefully lighter. 

We have about 340 miles to go but we hope to only drive a couple of hours tonight. If we can find a place to stop in Connecticut, we will sleep the morning away and finish the trip Saturday afternoon.

Thanks for reading.

Davy

It Is Time to Roll Again

It is time to roll the big wheels of the BoggsMobile again. If all goes as planned we should pull out Friday  morning for our whirlwind tour of the northeast. We are really looking forward to it.

You can see our schedule for the next few weeks HERE.

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The first leg from the Lazy OD Ranch to Boston is nearly 900 miles. We plan to divide that up over the next two days, driving the biggest share Friday and then finishing up with a shorter day on Saturday. We will be preaching both Sunday services for Bethel Revival Center in the Boston suburb of Everett.

Many of you may remember that we originally had a revival scheduled at Bethlehem but had to reschedule it. They are changing locations and are right in the middle of a building sale and have way too many pieces to juggle at this time. They ask us to preach their regular services on Sunday though and we are thrilled to do so.

Our next scheduled stop is for tent revival in Lowell, Vermont. We are honored to be returning to Vermont to preach for Pastor David DiZazzo. They are providing the tent so all we have to do is show up, sing, preach and let the Lord have His way.

After the Vermont tent revival we will mosey down to New York City. We are scheduled to sing and preach the Anniversary services for Pastor Sunny Philip at Gateway Christian Center in Valley Stream, New York. The church is on Long Island just east of Queens and only 4-6 miles from the churches we preached in back in February.

We are planning to see many of our new friends in New York City while we are there. We will be visiting a few churches and some our friends will attend the services at Gateway. Taking the bus through New York City should be enough excitement for any one but I sure there will be more than just that.

When that meeting is over we will rush back to Dayton, Ohio as fast as our little wheels will carry us for Indoor Fellowship at our home church. That meeting should be a highlight of our year.

We have a few other special things planned for this trip. I am sure we will post about some of that as it happens. Stay tuned!

Thanks for reading.

Davy

A Prayer For Safety

I debated back and forth whether or not I should post this. There are several tragic news events each week that merit attention that I never mention here. However, this one hits close to home.

As I laid down last night I was horrified when I looked at my phone and saw the story of the bus crash in California that killed at least five people. At least five families lost their loved ones and many more are terribly injured. The events of a few seconds changed many lives forever. It happened on Hwy 99 very close to all our friends in Atwater, California.

We travel Hwy 99 every time we are in the state. It is one of my least favorite stretches of road. It has been improved tremendously the last several years but it feels so unsafe to me as I drive it. I comment on it to Kelly Jo every time we drive 99. The section where this accident occurred is not bad at all and they have not yet determined what caused the crash but I immediately was sick to my stomach when I read the headlines and saw the pictures.

Please pray for these folks and their families and pray for our safety on the road as well. This is why I continually ask folks to pray for us. One blown tire, or debris in the road, or reckless driver of another vehicle or an inattentive moment on my part and that could be us. No, that is not a pleasant thought but it is a reality worth taking seriously and praying about.

Thanks for reading.

Davy