Friday, October 25, 2013

Travel and Work Day

We had a peaceful night in the Penney's/Bass Pro parking lot. Kelly Jo did put a note on the bus door letting the police know we had permission from the manager to park there. That may have prevented a knock on the door in the middle of the night.

Friday was a lot shorter on travel than Thursday was but quite a bit longer on work. We pulled out about 8:30 and we were pulling into Beams of Light Holiness Church about 2 hours later. It does take a bit of finagling to park the trailer here but all of it went pretty easy. When it is time to leave I think I can hook on and get out without too much problem.

While I was pulling out hoses, brushes and the ladder Kelly Jo was preparing a bite to eat. After a great lunch she jumped in and helped me give the BoggsMobile a good washing. It usually takes me about 40 minutes to get everything out, wash the bugs off the front and rinse and brush all of the stainless on the bus and put everything back up. If I include the upper part and the wheels and tires it takes about an hour total.

Today we worked about 3 and 1/2 hours including a little break thrown in for good measure. I climbed the ladder and washed the BoggsMobile from the air conditioners down to the concrete. I scrubbed it as good as I could and it looks pretty nice.









I wanted to scrub it real good because the BoggsMobile is going in for some paint work Monday morning. Jake Parkerson and his crew will be doing the work. Jake repaired the damage caused by hail to the roof of the bus back in 2011. 

We are now having some clear coat issues in several places...







And some bubbling issues around the rivets where the stainless and sheet metal meet.





Both of these things need to be addressed before they become major issues. The bus was built in early 1995 so most of the paint job is over 18 years old. The original owner had some of it repainted in 1997 at Prevost's expense but I do not think that any of this is related to that. It is just an old paint job that needs some work.

Bro. Jake should be finished with the BoggsMobile when we get back from Nigeria. Since I am taking it in Monday morning we need to be completely moved out including all of our stuff for Nigeria. It is a logistical nightmare to pull it all together but Kelly Jo has it all under control.

More work tomorrow and then church here at Beams of Light Sunday.

Thanks for reading.

Davy

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Travel Day

We are parked in a parking lot near Bass Pro just east of Mobile, Alabama. It has been a long, long day. I must be a wimp. 

We left Pine Prairie, Louisiana about 8:30 Thursday morning. We would have left earlier but I did not do any of the prep work Wednesday so there was a lot to do before we could crank the bus. 

I had to disconect and roll up four water hoses and put them in their place. Then I unhooked the hose for the gray water drain and put it away. 

Then I fetched Odie's power scooter from the church and loaded both chairs in the Green Machine. After that I hooked the Green Machine to the bus and then it was time to crank the bus. 

While it was warming up I unhooked all the electrical cord, put it all away and visited with Bro. Gautreaux a few minutes. It is always a little sad to leave friends and family but it was time to go. 

Traffic seemed thick for Thursday but we had a bright point in our travels today. We stopped in Mississippi for diesel and got it for $3.57 a gallon. 

That is 25-50 cents cheaper than I have been paying and that put a smile on my face. I still put in over $500 but that's much better than it could have been. 

We arrived in Richton, Mississippi about 2:00 PM. It took us over an hour to hook up the church van to the tent trailer, bring it around to the parking lot, hook the trailer to the bus and the load the car in the trailer. 

Whew! I was ready for a nap but no time for napping. We had to roll on down the highway. 

It has been five weeks since I have pulled the tent trailer with the BoggsMobile. It has been a joy to only pull the little Green Machine during that time. I remembered just how joyous when I hit traffic this afternoon. 

We hit Mobile at rush hour but it was not too bad. I take it very easy when pulling the trailer through cities so I probably slow more people down than rush hour does.

By the time we were on the east side of Mobile Bay I was frazzled and wore out. We walked into Bass Pro to relax and to pick up a new vest (My blue Big Dog vest has went over the rainbow to see Dorothy and Toto.)

We asked Bass Pro and Penney's if we were ok to park overnight. They both said we could so I hope we make it through the night without a knock on the door.   

We are only about 90 minutes away from Beams of Light Church so we will finish up in the morning by God's Grace. 

God bless you all. 

Davy


Revival In Pictures - Pine Prairie, Louisianna

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I mentioned that Pastor Gautreaux and his church are in the process of building a new sanctuary. This is what it looked like last October after the slab was poured.



Here it is now.











They are really making progress. The brick is scheduled for next week and they intend to have the outside finished before winter.

Kelly Jo snapped these pictures of the bus and the sunset on her way to church one night this week.





We have really had a good time this week. The services have been outstanding and God has been blessing each and every night. Our family has been blessed and encouraged and I know that folks from the church have been as well. I wish there was some way I could package it all up and share it with all of you but I promised you the blessings of God and revival are available to you. 

We plan to pull out sometime early Thursday and head toward Pensacola area. Kelly Jo and Odie have been busily preparing and packing for next weeks travels and we all have quite a bit to do between now and Monday. I will fill you in on some of that in the next couple of days.

For now I will allow the pictures to do the rest of the talking in this post.

Davy















Hana Japanese steak house



























































A cereal supper after church Wednesday night.