Thursday, October 28, 2010

Trip Pictures!

So, I thought I'd give you a little recap of my fall travels.
From August 17 to October 10 I was on the road. It started out with a few days with my sister and her family in Ukraine, then flying to Ohio where I technically stayed for a month, but traveled about 14 days out of that month to places like Pennsylvania and Virginia.
On September 22 I began the drive out west to Oregon. Stopped off in Indiana to visit friends for a couple of nights then passed up into Minnesota where I stay for over a week with various friends and visiting the mission and a couple of churches.
The first week in October saw me heading up into Canada, which is where most of these pictures are from. I drove through Manitoba this time just because I could and figured I should. If I do that again I may even remember that I have friends living there and stop to see them. Manitoba is where I saw the alien windmills (yes, I have seen these before, but on that landscape they really did look alien).
I made it all the way to Saskatchewan in one day. Overnighted there and visited a friend, then went on through to Alberta (where I failed to get a picture of the sign, but took pictures of the mountains instead to prove that I was really there). After a few days in Alberta (a very few because I forgot about the holiday weekend--for the uninitiated: Canadian Thanksgiving is the second Monday in October; so I had to smoosh my whole trip up by several days).
The last leg of my trip took me from Calgary to Oregon. I overnighted someplace in BC just north of the border (like 10 miles or so). But I chose to take the scenic route through the Rockies and am so glad I did! Those mountains will never cease but to amaze me.
I made it to Oregon safe and sound on October 10, and have been here ever since. At the moment, most of my time is still being spent getting settled in. I got an apartment a week ago and God has been busy furnishing it. Unfortunately, at the end of my travels my poor car was rather exhausted and pretty well collapsed in a heap and has just been limping around doing my bidding. But, God took care of that too. I was able to take it to a good mechanic yesterday who diagnosed and promptly fixed it (took him the whole day--apparently the cooling system was getting tired of cooling). I'm just amazed that God just worked it all out that this guy would be able to fix my car right away--and that I had the money to pay for it!

I am really overwhelmed by how God has provided for me here, but I will post more about that another day.
For now, thanks for praying me safely here!

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