fun fun bouldering!just 2days.I like it. [View Full Entry]

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Hi all, I am in Montgomery - the capital of Alabama, in one of those quick passing-through transits. We did a highlight tour of some key interests of the city, including the State Capitol and the Civil Rights Museum which is famous for Maya Lin's black granite memorial in front of the building (Maya Lin is the designer of Washington DC's controversial Vietnam Memorial). You know what they say about Alabama - where the skies are blue! Until the next time, - Cy [View Full Entry]

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As we got in the truck to drive back to Bob's in Boaz, we heard the lion roaring again. We met Bob at his house and then went to eat breakfast. We had pecan waffles. MMMMM! Then Bob drove us all over the Boaz area. There was corn stubble in the fields. People's vegetable gardens were still growing, especially cabbages. We're still amazed that so many places have vegetable gardens without fences around them. I guess the deer and the rabbits have plenty of other food of their own! We picked up Bob's grandson from pre-school and continued our tour. The [View Full Entry]

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(Shocco Springs Baptist Conference Center) Bob and I have so much to be thankful for, and this lifestyle right up there on our list. We are so privileged to be able to travel and meet people and be serving the Lord at the same time, and we’re always aware of that privilege. I think I mentioned that we’re meeting with the MMAPpers (Mobile Mission Assistance Program). Two of the couples got here in early November because of some special circumstances, so they’ve been working on tasks separate from ours, but have been doing morning devotions and Bible study and our socia [View Full Entry]

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It was still raining lightly in the morning. We got up to tell Terrye good-bye and told her to enjoy Chicago, even though it's supposed to be in the single digits there. Her whole medical office is going for a conference and training. In the house, Phil was playing his guitar with music in the basement, Max was blasting his own music in his room upstairs, Duke and Daisy were being rambunctious, and Boone was sleepily rubbing his eyes. We said our real good-byes and drove off in the rain at about 9:00.We ate breakfast at a Cracker Barrel restaurant down [View Full Entry]

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(Shocco Springs Baptist Conference Center) Happy Thanksgiving, tomorrow! The camp is closed Wednesday through Sunday, so we had a two day work week! When we first got to Talladega I said this is a surprisingly small town; I expected a city, because we’ve heard so much about Talladega Superspeedway~~a famous NASCAR track. The population is a little over 17,000 but the shopping area is small, with way too many empty store fronts, and the residential area is spread over a large area. Many of the residents work in Birmingham. Talladega doesn’t give the appearance of a thriving [View Full Entry]

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Nov 21 Its a freezing cold start again today and its quite a chore to get out of the tent and wrap it up. I get well wrapped up for the journey and am instantly dismayed when the mysterious rasping noise from the trailer comes back worse and more persistent than ever. The culprit turns out to be my flag pole which I extract every night , has been shoved in too deep and was rasping against the wheel, thank god for that , I thought that I was damaging the trailer. I am on the coast today passing through Perdido [View Full Entry]

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Nov20 I am looking forward to going to my next destination Gulf Shores as it has been recommended to me . One problem though I have to catch a ferry from Dauphin Island across Mobile Bay and they only run every 1hr 30mins. The ideal ferry is at 11.00am but I have to cycle 30 miles to get there , that means an early rise, packing a wet tent and setting off by 8.00am, as it happens I get away by 8.15am. The journey starts well with favourable winds and quiet smooth roads, wonderful , after an hour I am well [View Full Entry]

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Nov 19th The bike is all lubed up and the tyres are up to nearly their maximum pressure of 110 psi and I have spares at the ready so I set off in high spirits along the coast road, sunny skies but a bitter cold wind are good enough conditions for a pleasant ride into Alabama. I am now cyling through a more built up area for the first time in a while and the coast is a welcome sight. I have a couple of big bridges to cross today , over the Biloxi Bay into Ocean Springs and then on [View Full Entry]

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Alabama is...interesting. We drove through on our way to Georgia. We stopped in Birmingham to grab a bite to eat. It's pretty much like your average city. The food was good and the people were friendly. I'd stop there again if I was traveling somewhere where Birmingham was on the way. The traffic on the way out of Birmingham wasn't too great. We might have hit rush hour, but don't let that keep you form visiting Birmingham. [View Full Entry]

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