Sunday, July 6, 2008

Sunday, July 6, 2008

This is Ila writing tonight. Our breakfast this morning was compliments of the motel where we stayed last night so we had a warm meal to begin the day. There were at least 8 Nazarene churches in Nampa and we chose to attend church this morning at College Church in Nampa ID. This is the church where Kevin & Beth Borger had ministered at some time before they came to Oskaloosa.

In our trek on I 84 across Idaho, we saw various types of irrigation units with some crops of corn and lots of what appeared to be hay fields. We also saw herds of cattle – some dairy and some feed lots. There was one HUGE Holstein dairy herd just west of Twin Falls, ID. At Twin Falls, we did stop at the Snake River canyon. At the bottom, there was a golf course that I’m sure would have challenged all you golfers who are reading! We also came by a HUGE hay field and there were seven large balers working and the rows of hay they were baling were really big. We also saw what we think may have been potato fields.

Animal sightings today in addition to cattle and horses were some antelope. We kind of think that maybe some of the cattle had mountain goat blood because there were some who we way up on mountainsides and did not look all that safe. Not sure what in the world they were eating that would have been better than the wonderful green grass down low.

As we came through Ogden UT, I remembered being there in 1986 when Aaron McKee graduated from high school in Logan UT. We didn’t take time to investigate any of the area there. Heading farther on east on I84, we encountered quite a bit of highway construction and crossed over some of the rumble strips, which caused a bit of start for the one in the driver’s seat! HEE! Coming through Ogden, we also saw a Cracker Barrel sign so we know we must be getting closer to home! HA! We saw several “ranch” signs but the ranches were out of sight from the highway.

We are tonight in Evanston WY. I also have a 1986 memory of this place because on our way to Aaron’s graduation, we stopped to see our good friend, Sandy Pacha, who was living here at that time. We have this evening, called and touched base with friends in Cheyenne WY. We are hoping to perhaps catch an opportunity to stop by and say a brief “hello” to them on our way through their area but they are busy people. We will know by some time tomorrow afternoon. It looks like we should be back in Osky/Eddyville/Beacon either Wednesday or Thursday. We are getting pretty close to 10,000 miles on the van and also on three travel-weary bodies since we left.