Thursday, November 2, 2017

Revival At Sun Valley Church

Odie mentioned Saturday that my mother (Martha) was having a procedure on her heart this past Monday. The procedure was completed safely and she is home resting and recuperating. Thank you for praying for her and Dad. We are confident that she will be on her feet and ready to go very soon.

Have we mentioned that we are very glad to be back in beautiful Montana? This was taken from the church parking lot.



In yesterday's travel post I told you that I would take pictures in the daylight to show you how good Kelly Jo is at parallel parking. The BoggsMobile is over 45' with the tow bar sticking out the back so parking it any where in a space of 60' or less can be a challenge.

Look at this. She has 11 1/2" between the windshield wipers and the shed.



In the back she has 23" between the tow bar and the fence post.



That means she parallel parked the bus in a spot 34 1/2" longer that the BoggsMobile itself. Yep, she is good!

We are thrilled to be back with Pastor Mike Metzger and his folks at Sun Valley Church. God has blessed us with wonderful, faithful friends here and we are always honored to come back.

Revival began last night at 7:00 and we plan to go through next Wednesday night. We will have church every night but Saturday and the service Sunday night will begin at 5:00. We are looking forward to wonderful blessings from God each and every service.

The meals and fellowship have already been grand and we know that friendship and conversation will flow freely all week long. It is going to be an awesome week.

Odie snapped a few pictures beginning with lunch Wednesday and we added a few from the snow after church Wednesday night. I hope you enjoy.

Thanks for reading.

Davy



















Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Travel Days - Wyoming and Montana

We had two beautiful days of travel Monday and Tuesday. Have we mentioned that we love the west? One of the reasons we stopped after 4 1/2 hours Sunday night is that we did not want to miss all of this beautiful scenery! Colorado, Wyoming and Montana are too pretty to drive through at night.

Most of these are iPhone pictures taken through the dirty windshield, but you need to see these.









The beautiful drive was not without difficulties but they were manageable and completely worth the trouble. The minor difficulties were very high winds at times and snow covered and icy roads Monday morning around Casper, Wyoming.




It was time to slow down and smell the roses for awhile. I estimate we only had about 25 miles of conditions like the picture above and we were back on dry roads.

We are especially careful on I-25 in Wyoming since we had a very unpleasant experience about 30 miles north of Casper in 2010. That was an event we will probably never forget. You can read about it HERE

This stretch of road has not been fun on several occasions.

In 2012 we were in a horrible thunder storm with torrential rains for over 200 miles going across I-90 from South Dakota to Buffalo, 115 miles north of Casper. That was a horrible day too. You can read that HERE.

We came back through the same area near Casper a few weeks later going to Kansas and a rock chipped the driver's side windshield and cracked it into my line of site. Then we ran into storms hard enough to pull off the road. The next day I fought leaking rims on the tent trailer all day long in Nebraska. Those stories are HERE.

25 miles of snow and ice does not seem too bad this time.

















Carne Asada Tacos from KJ's Cantina. Wow!



















We arrived at Sun Valley Church Tuesday evening as the sun was setting. By the time the BoggsMobile was parked this is what it looked like.



I can not wait to take a picture in the light of day so you can see the spot where Kelly Jo parallel parked the bus. She is awesome!

This is a picture of the church taken from the same spot as I took the picture above.



That wraps up the travel tale from Monday and Tuesday. We covered 945 miles since we left Castle Rock Sunday evening. We are super glad to be here!

Thanks for traveling with us.

Davy