Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Day 1: Joplin to Hays, KS

We knew before we went to Costa Rica on Sept. 6th that leaving only 2 days between our trip to Costa Rica and this one to the Pacific NW was stretching it--well, cramming it, really--a bit, but that's the way it worked out. Monday was crazy, trying to get everything unpacked, washed & cleaned and repacked, and when we hit the sack at midnight, we still had a lot to do. We had hoped to leave by 11 am, but didn't get left until 2:14pm. But that's OK, we left 3 days to make it to Boise.

We had no problems today, unless you count having to jump-start the van and hitting Kansas City at rush hour in a downpour, but we made it through that fine, got some chalupas in Salina and arrived here at the Sleep Inn in Hays at 9:08. Tomorrow we have an appointment with the new Missions Pastor, new Associate Missions Pastor and the Missions Assistant at SE Christian in Parker (suburb of Denver), at 3pm. Pray our meeting there goes well. We hope to make it to central Wyoming by tomorrow night.

Let us hear from you!

Phil

7 comments:

Jason Casey said...

Hey guys, I love the blog! Praying for safety and for fruit. Jump start the van? The first day? What's up with that?

cdewelt said...

hey guys
hope that things go well at SE today. We're in week 5 already here - the Amigos are coming in this wkend for a couple of days and Carol is off to Ark...

Unknown said...

What a great trip to take! I'm so jealous, stuck here in the bluegrass... :(
Have a great & refreshing time!
Give Em a big hug for me.

Rod said...

Great idea to blog! Thanks for sending the link. Praying for safety and God's blessings on your trip.

Rod at ARM

Jason Casey said...

Hey Karl,

Do you know how to setup Google Analytics on the blog to track where all people are visiting from?

jp

Unknown said...

Hi Phil and Susan, Was great to get your email and hear about your blog and planned travels. Hope that you had a good visit at Southeast today. We were just there the middle of August and had a great time which included their doing a buy a book project to purchase new resources for the library and we also shared as part of their kids program -- 350 kids!! Was also great to meet and visit with Steve, Ron and Kristin -- they make a great team and appreciated having the opportunity to also talk about vision and strategies for missions and outreach!!

Blessings from Prague,

Jim and Laurie

Johann said...

Hey, Jason, here's a link to help you out: http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=35475&topic=7325

I'll email this to you in case you don't see this comment.