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Jul. 1, 2006
USA Tour: St. Louis, MO to Portland, ME
Check our travel blog for pictures from our trip:
www.mytraveljournal.com/herringfamily. Sorry, I've tried adding a
link, but it doesn't seem to be taking. May have to cut and paste.
Since last posting on June 23, we have:
* Seen the Gateway Arch and had a great day of recreation at Six Flags in St. Louis, Missouri.
* Survived an awesome thunderstorm with torrential rains and some hail thrown in while traveling through Illinois.
* Visited our niece in the Chicago area and taken a brief jaunt into Wisconsin.
*Passed through a lot of beautiful country through Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania on our way between Chicago and Buffalo, NY.
*Seen Niagara Falls at night--be sure to check out the pics on our travel blog.
* Been stranded by the flooding in New York. We spent the night in an
abandoned K-Mart parking lot in Sydney, NY, with several other RV'ers
and trucks.
* Escaped the flood area by going south through Pennsylvania to get to Newburgh, NY.
* Taken a car trip (left the trailer behind) up to Portland, ME, where we had a lobster dinner outside.
* Stayed the night in historic Portsmouth, New Hampshire, incorporated in 1620.
If all goes according to plan, we will return to Newburgh, NY tonight,
see New York City tomorrow (Sunday), then move on to Washington D.C.
for a few days over the 4th.
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Dear Jesus,
First I want to lift up the families who have been affected by the
flooding in New York. We expect trouble with earthquakes, tornados,
hurricanes, and other sudden natural disasters. It baffles us to find
ourselves in danger simply from several days of rain. Please grant
peace to those who have lost homes or belongings, aid those who don't
know how to carry on, bless those who have worked to provide for those
needs, protect those who have been injured.
I am grateful,
Lord, that so few lives have been lost, but I pray Your special comfort
to the families of the two truck drivers who died when the road washed
out ahead of them and the young man on his way to work in the dark who
died when he didn't see the damage to the road. Please also comfort the
families of any others who may have died since, or in other areas we
did not get news from.
Thank You, Father, for our safety. And
thank You for the bonding time with our family. We are gathering a
great store of collective memories.
Be with us as we continue.
Help us to arrive at every appointment You have set for us, whether or
not we make it to any of the ones we have.
Amen
This week's verse is Proverbs 26:17:
"Like one who siezes a dog by the ears is a passer-by who meddles in a quarrel not his own."
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