We are getting ready to start our Journey to Africa and hence we hava a new blog. We have already traveled across the USA and are making our final preperations for our "Gateway" class to begin. We will be in Texas for about 6 weeks studying the scriptures as well as ship safety training in our preparations for a life onboard a Mercy Ship. When we leave Texas we will be spending 6 months serving onboard the M/V Africa Mercy. The M/V Africa Mercy is a 499-foot 16, 572 ton ship. It is the world’s largest charity hospital ship. The purpose-built hospital includes six state of the art operating rooms, intensive care and ward bed space for up to 78 patients. Jen and I actually met while serving onboard the M/V Anastais which was replaced by the Africa Mercy.

We have made it to Washington

We have made it to Washigton. But before we did there were a few more destinations.

We spent 4 days Kayaking and camping in the islands of Voyageur National Park. We saw baby eagles (fledglings) and lots of beavers and loons.

From voyageur we went to North Dakota, oh yeah. ND actually wasn't that bad if you like open space. We stopped and saw the two Albino Buffalos at the Buffalo Muesum in Jamestown, ND and then Continued our drive to Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

While there we saw many more buffalo and I saw my first Prairie dog in the wild. It almost reminded me of the Painted Desert how there were painted pyramids.

The final stop on our journey across America was Glacier National Park. We saw Big Horn Sheep and Mountain Goats there as wel as some Glaciers soon there will be no Glaciers there do to climate change. But they will still call it Glacier National Park since that is how they believe it was formed.