Hello friends! I am preparing for my next adventure. Here is the letter I sent out, which has most of the details, and I will be filling in info as it gets closer. If you want to donate money or items, contact me and I'll let you know how. I am very much a fan of allowing a big God do things through my small things... so if you'd like to save your pocket change over the next few weeks, that'd be great. If not, here are some great ways to pray. Also, right now we need 2-3 soccer balls and [View Full Entry]

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Hey guys- I'm going to try to post a wish list of what else we're trying to come up with, but for now, the soccer balls are spoken for (woohoo!) We'd still like to take a pump, which has yet to be claimed. And as for generic stuff, any medical or dental supplies are great. Tylenol, bandaids, neosporin, toothbrushes, toothpaste, iodine... things like that. So if you want to throw a few items in your grocery basket, that would be great. Also, any school supplies- packs of paper (or whatever is left in them), pencils and pens, notebooks... Let me know [View Full Entry]

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Spokane, WA, USA 1. Where I live, with plenty of hills, trees, and rivers. 2. Where I go to school. 3. Where the buses travel thousands of miles each day, but I don't. [View Full Entry]

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Spokane seems like an odd road trip destination from Calgary but the tax-free shopping (for out of state residents), restaurant variety, charming historic Downtown core & Washington Wineries has its appeal. We didn't get a lot of studying done this past weekend but Keely got some real life experience for her upcoming Criminal Procedure exam when her car trunk was opened and searched without consent by US Border Patrol. The two border patrol guards must have overheard our jokes & comments about trunk capacity while idling in line. Their good cop-bad cop approach didn't phase us and we we [View Full Entry]

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DAY 19 Bothell to Spokane THE FINAL DAY Snoqualmie Pass was open and Geoff said we’re going for it. So off we went. It was miserable on the pass with so much standing water on the roadway and big semi-trucks and slush. Not fun! But Captain Geoff got us safely through and kept driving until it was time to dump. What we found out was that most of the dumpsites where buried with snow and not accessible. So we made a beeline for home. Our house was well cared for by dear friends and we were able to pull right in [View Full Entry]

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We're almost ready to take off on our big adventure! Our fellow adventurers, the Kaedings, tell us we'll be following a coastal storm over the next few days. Did we say adventure - people!? The great thing is we'll all be one big happy family. The bad thing is I asked Geoff when he got the RV to please not take us on winter trips... Looking at the picture of Spirit (our motorhome is named "Spirit") you can see for yourself that it is indeed WINTER here! GOOD TIMES! :) Thanks for traveling along with us as we go in search [View Full Entry]

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I had breakfast with Mike this morning (after a hot shower!). Then all of us headed to church… for the last time for a while, unfortunately. Service was great and Jessica even kind of enjoyed it, or at least is taking a lot of time to process the whole thing. Then we headed to the theater. For some reason, I thought I was going to have more time to get work done, but the kids showed up straight away and we got a little pressed for time. Because Wenatchee didn’t have a full rig, I ended up having to reprogram every [View Full Entry]

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We got to sleep in today, which was pretty nice, but for the life of us we could not get our shower to turn warm! Yikes! (We also spent most of the night fighting with the heater. I woke up in the middle of the night from a dream that I was talking to the children and couldn’t hear them because it was too loud- so I got up and shut it off. Sarah turned it back on because it was freezing in our room and she figured that if I woke up and it was cold, I would not get [View Full Entry]

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Today we were up and at it again. Actually, we just got up and drove to Spokane. The drive was beautiful, filled with a lot of not talking, which as exactly what we all needed. We came to Spokane and then did lunch and went to the Fox to check on some things. It was great to see the guys hanging my show, familiar guys who were doing a good job and everything taken care of- I have no worries about that. Then we hit LC just after the kids arrived, and I did laundry and ran some errands while they [View Full Entry]

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The time we have all been waiting for has finally come. I am embarking on the adventure of a lifetime! More than a year ago this journey was only a sketch...a possibility, but now it has formed into a full fledged OMG-holy-cow-I'm-really-gonna-do-this dream come true! So with as few expectations as I can have, I am heading out. Amazing friends and family are sending me off with more love and support than I could have ever dreamed. Miranda, the most committed and encouraging friend I've ever had, is accompanying me on the first leg of my Personal Legend. And a car [View Full Entry]

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