Travel Day - Sunday

Sunday was our fourth travel day in a row. We have not had four travel days in a row since we came back from Montana. Before we hit the road today we had a couple of services scheduled.

Sunday morning we sang and preached at Liberty Tabernacle in London, Kentucky for Pastor Lester Carpenter. Although we see the Carpenters at Bond and Dryden Rd. it has been several years since we have been to their church. It was so nice to see them and to be in church with them.

Bro. Carpenter was a great influence on me and Kelly Jo when we were young. He preached some great revivals that we attended both before and after we were married. He encouraged us in dedication and Godly living during some rough years and we will never forget it. It was blessing to preach in his church.

We ate a great lunch at the original KFC with Bro. Carpenter, Bro. Tim and Sis. Waveline Carpenter. I will have some pictures from lunch at a late date. After lunch we cranked the BoggsMobile and moved a few miles to First Pentecostal in London. We had parked the bus in their parking lot a couple of times when passing through but we had never been in service with them.

Pastor Vernon Jarvis contacted us earlier in the year about going by for a service. We set it up for this Sunday since I knew we would be headed home this weekend. We enjoyed getting to know Pastor Jarvis and his church better and we enjoyed the service too. We actually ended up knowing some of his folks and it was good to get reacquainted with them. Some of them I had not seen in 28 years.

After church we pointed the BoggsMobile toward Ohio and let it run. We stopped once for what should be our last fill up with diesel for 2012 and pulled into Dodds church about 1:00 AM. The next two days will be a whirlwind of activity as we wind up preparations for our trip to Nigeria.

It is good to be home even though we have not seen anybody yet and we will not be home long. It is still good to be home.

God bless,

Davy

Travel Day - Nashville, Tennessee to London, Kentucky

After we rested Saturday morning Kelly Jo worked on packing for our trip to Nigeria. She has more stuff to pull together and pack than I can remember and not much time to do it.

She works so hard to keep us going but especially on trips like this. She is irreplaceable.

We finished some work and headed for London, Kentucky. We left a little before 5:00 PM central time but it was already mostly dark. Official sunset was at 4:34.

Nashville may be saving a lot of daylight with "Daylight Savings Time" but they are not getting to use it in the winter. The Gov'ment must be shipping it to Florida or some where.

It ended up being about 199 miles to Bro. Lester Carpenter's church just south of London. We pulled in a little after 9:00 Eastern time. We have driven right into winter. It was supposed to be 21 last night and I believe every degree of it.

Since it is winter it is time for some heat. The fire place in the BoggsMobile is so inviting. You like it?

We saw this on the highway Friday. It looked like a brand new front loader washing machine in the back of a nice Cadillac. I guess she ran into a black Friday sale that she could Not pass up!

We are supposes to be in service here this morning and another church tonight. I will try to give you a full report tomorrow.

It is only 200 miles home so we plan to drive it tonight. I hope you have a great Sunday in church.

Davy

Travel Day - Texarkana, Arkansas to Nashville, Tennessee

We started before 9:00 yesterday morning and had a great travel day. I expected the traffic to be heavy the day after Thanksgiving but it was not.

We had a little bit of one lane construction traffic in Arkansas and that was about it. We drove a little over 490 beautiful sunny miles.

We could have driven the other 195 miles to London, Kentucky but I have learned from experience that 500-550 miles is a good limit for me. Besides we have some business to take care of here.

We pulled into Prevost Nashville before dark and rested good over night. They have a great big parking lot and it has gated access for security. It is a real nice place to stop.

Speaking of nice places to stop, we had to sleep among the trucks Thursday night in Texarkana. That Flying J used to have designated RV parking like all the rest. It says on the brochure that it still has it but it does not.

They have put in a new entrance and I suppose that took the area for RVs. I hope that does not become the norm because we stop at a lot of Flying Js.

The leaves were nice in Arkansas yesterday.

The BoggsMobile and Green Machine in West Memphis, Arkansas

Found these at a truck stop. I guess I should say they found me.

Raspberry Dark Chocolate M&Ms! O mi palabra!

What will they think of next?

We had dinner at Jack's BBQ, our favorite in the Nashville area. It was good as always.

We also sang at the Grand Ole Opry last night.

Yep, we sang at the Opry as we were driving around looking at the Christmas lights.

That was our travel day.

Davy