Trekking East

In the previous blog, I forgot to include our visit to Lamb's Players in Coronado early in the week to see the play, Harvey! To double date with Susan and Dan was a treat! As usual, the Lamb's Players did not disappoint us. It was a great play, and reminded us of what is really important in life! And that sometimes you need to be a little crazy to survive!

This has been a crazy and tiring travel week!
We left California on Sunday morning, spending the night in Las Vegas....with temperatures at 120 outside and 110 in the coach, we decided we would have dinner in a cool casino! Our AC ran all night and it still did not cool down below 90!
The week held a variety of scenery, from desert, to mountain ranges, to cornfields!!

Monday, we drove through Utah, enjoying the beautiful desert scenery,



then Tuesday through Colorado, with scenic White River Canyon,

and the majestic Rockies (note how small the buildings look!),


viewing the Continental Divide from Vail Pass, at 10581 foot elevation.


Wednesday on to Nebraska, seeing an original pony express stop in Guthenburg,

the Great Platte River Road Archway over I-80.

Did you know that Kool-Aid is the official soft drink of Nebraska? Hastings is the birthplace of Kool-Aid!
Along with its collection of stuffed animals, vehicles, and other cultural displays, the Hastings Museum has a great Kool-Aid display,


And at the campsite, we were surrounded by cornfields,


Thursday we arrived in Iowa! Were we slowed down a bit so we could enjoy the small towns, like Elk Horn with its authentic windmill from Denmark,
which was taken apart, numbered, shipped and rebuilt here,
with the help of a scale model.

On display was a windmill built with legos,

and a vikinghjem,

and at Winterset, the toured the birthplace of Marion Morrison........WHO??

That's right......
John Wayne!

In the evening we were treated to dinner at Iowa Machine Shed with a childhood friend of mine, Brenda, and husband Michael, in Des Moines, before continuing on to Cono Christian School in Walker, on Friday.

It seems like a long time since our last MMAP assignment in April, and we look forward to serving the school and the fellowship of our co-workers.