Blogs from Maryland, United States, North America - page 15

Had no program for today. Watched couple of more episodes of 24. Did laundry. Lunch of bottle gourd kootu and kovakkai poriyal. Went early to the station, by 2.30pm and had to wait in the cold for more than an hour. Took the 3.53pm Amtrak train to Union Station, Washington (1hr.15mins). DB received us at the station and took metro to Shady Grove, which was another 1 hr. Then went home by car which was parked at the Shady Grove station (in the 6th floor!) Dinner of pasta and mango pie. Talked for a long time and slept at 12 midnight. ITINERARY --------- ============================================================ Wilmington, DE (WIL) to Washington - Union Station, DC (WAS) 24-APR-12; 3:51 pm - 24-APR-12; 5:20 pm ============================================================ Service: 93 Northeast Regional Duration: 1 hr, 29 min Wilmington, DE (WIL) 24-APR-12; 3:51 ... read more

Fifteen months ago I arrived back in the States from my first mission trip. I spent two weeks in the beautiful country of Ethiopia, and fell head over heels in love with the country, culture, and the people. I learned more about Jesus and the brokenness of all of humanity then I ever understood before. You see, it's easy to walk into a culture and see their poverty, but it's a whole different lesson when you recognize and define the poverty in your own life. I am so thankful for the lessons learned, the friends made, and the friends and family who supported me to go. I am forever changed. #growth I stepped off that plane fifteen months ago with a burning desire and passion to one day connect my home church, LifePoint Church, with a ... read more

I have been a bit lazy about keeping up my blog this year. Sorry about that. As planned we spent hurricane season on the east coast of the US this year. The highlight of the summer for both of us was the month we spent in Washington D.C. We motorsailed up the Potomac River from the Chesapeake Bay and checked into Gangplank Marina which is located about a 20 minute walking distance from the Smithsonian Institutes, the National Mall, the Capital and so on. We both loved D.C. We just hopped off the boat anytime we felt like it and went sightseeing. If it was too far to walk we took the train or bus. The highlight of the sightseeing for me was the National Gallery of Art and in particular the Chester Dale Collection of ... read more

As we didn’t make it to the Dorchester Visitor’s Center on Sunday we got there by noon yesterday. I was already armed with a list of places I’d found on-line of Underground Railroad sites, needless to say, a very condensed list. I’d been to the place in Africa where kidnapped people were put onto the slave ships so now was the day to come full circle, where they ran for their freedom. The Visitor’s Center is a great place to start; the docent’s will direct you to the closest sites, just blocks away. They also have a nice interpretive section downstairs. This is the place to start. The docent directed us to the court house where people were sold into slavery on the courthouse steps, just up the street from the docks. The original courthouse was ... read more

Now it is the push to get finished. I have 2 days of inspections left but several days of actual claims to write up. It is always hard at the end to take the time necessary to get everything done properly, I just want out of here. Funny because it is so exciting to start a storm but then so great to finish working. But like a supervisor said today, it is so great to go driving off for home with some money in the bank and a job behind you. So tonight Dale and I started looking more seriously at the end game here. We have a bunch of people we need to see but we also had ideas of things we wanted to do. We mapped it out and found that seeing a few ... read more