Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Some Traveling Pictures from July 5-6

Joyce and I had a good time yesterday evening with Scotts Valley/Santa Cruz team that came out to Yap for a short term mission trip to build our facility for the PIU Yap teaching facility. We enjoyed some good food and fellowship and made plans for the group to return to Micronesia. The plan for now is to have the group work on developing the Guam campus (more on the plans in a later post) and have them come out some time next Spring. I was very encouraged by their enthusiasm for being part of what God is doing at PIU and in Micronesia. I am also posting here some pictures from the VOM tour. After the 4th of July weekend we headed toward Texas. On Monday the 5th we drove from San Diego to Alamogordo New Mexico. I am sure it was the longest drive any of our students had ever taken. Here are some pictures of that day and loooooong night...

Joyce and I alternated driving the van pulling our trailer. We saw a lot of cactus as we drove out Interstates 8 and 10. 
I thought this rock formation was interesting
About midnight, when we were almost to Alamogordo we went through a border patrol inspection station. Several of the students had placed their passports in their luggage in the trailer so we had to find them so we could proceed.
We ended up having to wait 2 1/2 hours because we had some of the girls' passports in our van and they had some of the guys' passports in their van. The blue van was about 2 hours behind us. The border patrol officers were nice to us, but it was still a long wait so late at night with another long drive to Texas ahead of us the next day.

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