Still having a great time. I will say less here in the beginning and put more explanations with the pictures. Thank you for your greetings and prayers while we are here. Glenn & Nooni are now in Venice for her birthday and we are experiencing normal life in Oxford. The walking is wonderful! Two days we have gone over 18,000 steps. Should be less now that we don't have to go back and forth to Lincoln College. Here are some pictures. Hope you enjoy them. Cheers!... read more

Hello again. We are off to England in just a few hours. Our son, Glenn is blessed to be at Oxford and we are going to enjoy their life there. We are excited to be able to catch up with him, our great daughter-in-law and wonder whether Louis, the Jack Russell, will remember us fondly when he sees us again. We had a good time at church and lunch with friends before coming home to finish a few last minute items. See you tomorrow with some photos and travel stories. Jim, Shirley & Chrissy... read more

Hello again on a damp, but promising Sunday morning. We have returned once more to our home base in Te Aroha. We went to visit our friends on the Coromandel Peninsula beside the Firth of Thames. How often do you get to say Firth of anything in this life? It was very rainy on Thursday when we drove up, so we stayed inside for most of the day. Cliff and his two handicapped children live on a beautiful little bay called Ruamahunga Bay. It is very sub-tropical and he is able to grow most everything. The land behind the house goes steeply up the hill and he has terraced it and planted fruit trees and flowers profusely. There is one tree called a lemonade tree and we went a little crazy with the fruit since he ... read more

We have had a couple of quiet days, but still able to see some former friends and find some new ones. Since we were in town, we went to visit the grave of our dear friend, Frank Ranger, who passed away last summer. While we were there, we were able to witness a very touching and poignant vignette of love and devotion. A man, who looked in his 80's, parked behind our car and got out a folding chair and bag and went to sit by his wife's grave. He then got out some sandwiches and a thermos and proceeded to have lunch with her. It was the sweetest act we had seen in a long time. It was a good time for us to remember in prayer the Decker family as they care for their ... read more

Hello again to all our friends that read about our travels. We appreciate your interest and would value your prayers while we are on our trip. We left Columbus on Thursday, 30 Sept., and stayed one night in Los Angeles. We spent the day going downtown and seeing Olvera Street, a little historic Mexican street. It hadn't changed much from when we took the children there when they were younger. We also drove out to Azusa for Jim to see some of his old haunts at Azusa-Pacific College. It had changed so much that there wasn't one building that Jim recognized. It was a closed campus so we couldn't drive through. He did think he located where the Denny's restaurant used to be where he spent most of his college nights. It was fun. Everything went ... read more