padding:0 20px 20px .25em; Ramblings From around the world: August 2008

August 24, 2008

Too many places to list.

While in New York we visited with Seth and Kayanne and then traveled from my brothers place, north to Canada. We passsed the waters of the 5 Great lakes spending time on Lake Ontario, Lake Huron and Lake Superior. We Drove to Lake Ontario and had lunch and then continued driving until we reached the bruce penninsula. We spent the night there and woke up for a sunrise cruise (Ferry Ride) on the MS Chi-Cheemaun across Lake Huron.
Chi-Cheemaun means big canoe in the local tribal language. The front part of the "canoe" actualy opens up to allow vehicles to drive on.
Afterwards we spent the rest of the day exploring Manitoulin Island(the largest island within a fresh water lake) by foot and kayak.















The next day we drove off the island towards Lake Superior(largest fresh water lake by surface area in the world). Then we explored the Pictured Rock National Lakeshore by foot and almost by kayak but the waves were at 3-4 feet crashing against the rocks so we turned back and took the 38 mile, 2.5 hour sunset cruise to see them instead.







The next place we visited was the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. It was very similiar to Pictured Rocks but the waves were again 3-4 feet crashing against the rocks. We did take a hike along the rim which had random drop offs into the lake. We saw some kayakers but they had all decided to turn back.

August 18, 2008

New York AKA (Family Reunion)

We went to my family reunion in New York it was the first time in 5 years that my entire immediate family was together. Now there are quite a few new additions. My wife of course being one of them and 4 new neices. Below are the before and after pictures. Abbey was techinical in the before picture though you may not see her.
















August 2003 - Five years Ago


August 2008



Neices - Abbey(4), Arreil(2),Makayla(1.5), Katelynne(2)




Pennsylvania Journey

While we were in PA we visited with some of my friends from Houghton College and with Thom from Mercy Ships. We enjoyed the time we spent with all. Houghton Friends and Future Alumni.
Thom and the loaded Truck

We also went to the Hershey Chocolate factory it was difficult to get Jen to leave I almost had to bribe her as you can see below..

August 10, 2008

The Journey has begun.

Jen and I have decided that we are going to return to Mercy Ships for 6 months. We left our home in NC and started our journey north through Washington, DC. We visited with some friends there (The Brown's and Maggie). While there we went to the New Air and Space museum



After leaving DC we went Gettysburg


and Lancaster County(Home of the Amish) notice the baby buggy seat(car seat).

We also stayed one night in gordonville just for fun..