For the third time in less than three years, I drove most of the way across the greatest country in the world. On December 28, I set out from Langley, BC with Rod, Rebecca and Dan. Dave and Ev drove with us until we reached Banff. We stopped at a hotel in Golden, BC the first night. (The website almost makes it look nice.)
After that we decided to drive straight through. Of course, we were pulling a box trailer that dropped our gas mileage to about 18 litres/100 km (or 11 MPG for you imperialists) so we made a fair number of stops at gas stations throughout the country. After driving out of BC, through Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba and into Ontario within 24 hours, we finally arrived in Port Perry at about 1:00 pm on New Years Eve. The halfway point of the trip was actually just outside of the Ontario border.
After eating supper and playing some Boggle, Rebecca, Rod and I were all sleeping by 10:00, but Daniel went out with some friends and partied until about 5:00 am. (Now that's hardcore!)
The trip itself was relatively uneventful. The biggest excitement was when Rod managed to fix the windshield washer fluid sprayer! Actually we didn't even need it until we reached northern Ontario. This is not to say that the trip was boring, but that the trip went incredibly smoothly. We had good weather, no car troubles and no interpersonal conflicts. (In fact, the biggest issue was when Daniel beat me at Cribbage.)
Praise God for safe travels for over 4300 km of winter roads! We saw only one moose and very little snow.
Now hopefully these pictures will work. Rod and Dan took some real winners. I can't seem to upload them on this slow dial-up connection.
4 comments:
I am glad that you reach home safely, PTL !!
My new year is relatively uneventful until last night... Jared has a severe allergy attack (severe rashes, difficult breathing...), and Mabel brought him to ER. Thank God that he recovered within few hours after a cocktail of steroid, benadryl, and ashmatic treatment. Well, we are suspecting the multicolor methos that he had before dinner. Anyway, he is alive and mischevious as usual :>
Glad you made it safely and especially glad that Samuel is doing well.
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Hi Jonathan,
So many thanks for sharing your story with the Korean youngsters at the concert.
We hope and pray that God send you a lot of his good people to share your vision and work with you.
Blessings!
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