On our way home...

Yesterday, Saturday the 21th of November, we stepped into our trusty Honda CR-V again homeward bound. We got up around 6 am. The night before we hugged everyone said goodbye to most people. However, 2 men had to wait for their flight to Boston on Saturday. They volunteered to ferry a number early birds to the airport and were hanging around until mid afternoon when their flight left. We said goodbye to them, grabbed some fruit and set off for home. The weather was around 15 deg C and it rained. Fortunately, just when New Orleans disappeared from our rearview mirrors, the rain stopped and as we got further along I10, the clouds started to disappear slowly. The further north we travelled, the sunnier it got. As I write this on Sunday evening, we encountered nothing but great weather. All along the sun was out and the temperatures in the mid to high teens, even in Indiana and Michigan (God is good!!). Our trusty GPS allows us to sail smoothly along the Interstates and through the big cities. Once we went wrong because I thought better and then of course we had to make a U-turn to get back on track. Oh well, another lesson learned. BTW, we're taking a slightly different route home. When we went to NO, we went down I75 to Cincinnatti and then took I71 to Louisville, KT. On the way back, in Louisville we continued on I65 to Indianapolis, IN and then took I69 direction Lansing and Flint MI and will continue on I69 to Port Huron where we'll cross the border into Canada again. This way won't have to go through Cincinnatti, Toledo and Detroit. All these cities are very busy and often have bad roads. Besides, we've never been in Indiana before :-) Talking about Indiana, it could be Ontario you're driving in, it just about looks identical, flat with lots and lots of farms. It looks like a prosperous state, lots of new construction in the cities and neat farms everywhere. Yesterday we made good time and stayed overnight in Franklin, Tennessee. The wireless system in the hotel didn't work so we could not get into our email. Today we are in Coldwater, Michigan and are staying in a nice place that does have a working wireless. We're a little later getting to our hotel because we found that the hotels in Indiana and Michigan are quite expensive.  They wanted around $70-80 per night in the La Quita and Super-8 motels. So, we decided to travel a little further and since we obtained a coupon for the Red Roof Inn in Coldwater, MI for $45.99 we decided to check that out. It turned out that this is a brand new hotel with all the amenities and it's clean so here we are for the night.







This is likely my final blog since we're hoping to arrive home tomorrow afternoon. It has been a great experience working with great people and for great people. Thank you for following Annie and I via this blog. We hope that is was of interest to you and that you have better idea what your CRWRC dollars are doing when they're spend on DRS work. It sure gave us an eye opener. Be assured that the people on the receiving end of your faithful donations to CRWRC-DRS are profoundly thankfull for helping them get their homes back. Moreover, we thank our faithful Father for the opportunities we have to extend His loving care to people in need.