Trip day1

Day 1
It all started the first week of September 1982. While on our honeymoon we started dreaming and joking about what life might hold for us. What would we do for our 25th wedding anniversary? Why not take a trip to Alaska? What started as a joke was not forgotten and we talked about it every year. Well 25 short years later here we are.

This is my wife Debra and I, all ready to leave at 6:15am June 26th 2007 with our motor home we bought for the trip.

God has been good to us and blessed us with three sons and a dog among many other blessings in the past 25 years. Since the boys and the dog where not along with us on our honeymoon we decided to leave them at home.

Ryan, Ash, Dwayne and Houston

Ash helped his mother make a sign to put in the back window of the motor home.

It is really neat how so many people blow the horn give us thumbs up and even cheer as they go by. Good lasting marriages are a testimony and encouragement to the world.

We where almost at the Ohio/Indiana line when a truck pulls up beside us blows the horn and then motioned about a tire. I pulled to a stop on the shoulder to find what he was trying to tell me. I found a blown out tire on the right rear inside. Since there was not enough room to change the tire on the shoulder we drove about 5 miles to the toll booth and found plenty of room to work there. Just as I was ready to change the tire it rained for about 5 minutes.

Here I am jacking up the motor home to change the tire. This is when I realized I had two blown tires.

We did get to Todd Neuschwander’s in time for supper and then went with them to "care group".We had a good time with their group and watched a DVD entitled “Life Without Limbs”. It was a very moving story.

Always remember accept and praise God for what you have. Don’t become bitter at what you don’t have. Check it out at lifewithoutlimbs.org.

Todd & Anita.

Todd will be our evangelist September 11-16, 2007. Remmember to pray for Todd and his family as he prepares for the meetings.