...in order to discover your own roots. There were opportunities in Boston: they taught me to push myself. There was power in Geneva: it taught me humility. There were sights to be seen in Paris: they taught me to keep looking. There were mountains in Vienna: they taught me to keep climbing... but reminded me how it felt to look West. And everywhere, there were people: they were my passion - they taught me how to serve. It's been an interesting couple of months, hasn't it? I spent the 3 months prior to this one trying to recognize the path below [View Full Entry]

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Letzten Sonntag habe ich es endlich mal geschafft nach Denver zu fahren. Mit dem Bus braucht man ungefähr eine Stunde von Boulder in die Innenstadt von Denver, die Fahrt kostet nur vier Dollar und dank einer Menge komischer Leute im Bus war die Fahrt auch noch recht unterhaltsam. Denver ist die Hauptstadt von Colorado, im Stadtgebiet leben ca. 590.000 Menschen, im Ballungsraum etwa 2,6 Millionen. Damit ist Denver die größte Stadt im Umkreis von 1000 Kilometern. 11,3 % der "Denverites" haben übrigens Deutsche Vorfahren. Die Stadt liegt genau eine Meile (1,6 km) über dem Meeresspiegel, daher d [View Full Entry]

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Hi all. Well we finished our marathon drive yesterday from Albuquerque, NM (about 9 hours of driving) to reach my Aunt & Uncle's place in Livermore, CO. It's about 40 minutes northwest of Fort Collins, CO. A special thanks to Dave and Lynette for letting us stay here while they are staying at our home in University Place until sometime in April of next year. We had a really awesome time in Albuquerque with our friends Darin and Rochelle Sand, Bruce and Valerie Altman, and Wendy Vander Aa. Their hospitality and love were very evident the whole time we were there. [View Full Entry]

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Wednesday September 24, 2008 Two days ago in Moab, we looked at the weather in various places before deciding where to go next. Moab was great up ‘til then but a bit too hot for physical outdoor activities. With high winds whipping up all around, we were starting to eat and breathe serious dust. Time to move on. Arizona and southwest Utah are still in a serious heat wave with temps 36 C plus (100 F for the Americans reading this). Not comfortable for us northerners with no aircon in the camper part of this rig. So we decided that east [View Full Entry]

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Momentan gibt es leider nicht viel Neues zu Berichten. Das Wetter ist nach wie vor super, schönster Sonnenschein und wolkenloser Himmel bei um die 25 Grad. In den Bergen schneit es inzwischen allerdings regelmäßig. Die Arbeit macht nach wie vor Spaß, so dass die (Arbeits-)Tage ziemlich schnell rum gehen. Wir hatten ein paar coole Jobs in letzter Zeit, allerdings gibt es nach wie vor nicht wirklich viele herausfordernde Aufträge zu erledigen. Letzten Mittwoch bin ich zum "Royal Arch" gewandert, einem riesigen Felsen in Form eines Tores. Nach dem ziemlich steilen und anstregenden Aufstieg dort [View Full Entry]

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Hello all! We are officially back online after spending 4 days in the Colorado Rockies; Camp Gunnison, which will portrayed in many pictures in the blog, is one of our ministry's root locales and is mainly used for running classes and family camps; it was a great time for all. We love you! Jim, Marsha, Clara, Sam, and Hannah [View Full Entry]

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This past week in Alamosa was pretty awesome! One of the big events for the community gardens for the Fall was this week - Stone Soup. Polston Primary School, where the largest of the two community gardens is located, hosts an event every year (for the past 7 years) themed around this children’s book. Some of you may be familiar with the book, Stone Soup; however I wasn’t until this week. To keep it short, the book is about three strangers who come across a village of people who are shy and selfish and have always kept their food and belongings [View Full Entry]

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Who says that you have to be in Europe to write a travel blog? I figured that this was a really great way to keep in touch with everyone there, so why wouldn't I keep in touch while in the US? I apologize for this not coming on a Wednesday, but I've actually found myself really busy this week. For one, I had two tasks to get to immediately: get a job and enroll in classes. My parents' condition for me living here is that I go back to school and get my educator's license. This is not a negative condition [View Full Entry]

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Sailing through Wyoming is sometimes tedious. I was, therefore, understandably excited by an op-ed piece in the Casper ?Star-Tribune? which mentioned some plans for a Billings to Albuquerque high speed rail connection. Turns out it is still in the dreaming stage and probably only from Cheyenne to ABQ. Why don't the states and the feds build the multiple new tracks needed and then let transportation companies compete to move freight and people up and down the Rocky Mountain front? Took some things to an auctioneer where I found some odds and end from various parts of the 20th century. They h [View Full Entry]

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I stuck out my thumb, my shadow on the run. The road brings freedom and I am free, to make me what I want to be. Joey and I set out after class on friday. Two packs, boots, and a dog, we were going to get somewhere. Where? We didn't really know. Besides, the journey is the destination. It wasn't long before a couple from durango scooped us up. Grateful Dead tunes swam from the speakers as we watched the road begin to pass us by. After a few minutes they dropped us off at the mouth of gorgeous Taylor [View Full Entry]

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