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We've successfully made it to Chicago where we have crashed with Kathy's sister, Ruby. We are in the house with four adolescents and one new born (four days old), 2 preschoolers, and three grandparents -- 14 of us in all.
My favorite part of the trip out was where I wore my "I'm blogging this" t-shirt for the first 1700 miles of the trip. As we passed through rural areas, the looks that I received from people trying to figure out what it meant was, as they say on the credit card commercial, 'priceless.'
We're thankful for safety, and, for the most part, for us all remaining civil with each other through the 2100 miles. We slept in the van on Sunday night (Monday morning) at about 8000 feet in the Rockies. Carl, my long-suffering neglected son, did not destroy any persons or property while he drove for us, although he did learn that wind can blow a van around driving north of Las Vegas.
It was interesting reading the 'local histories' at rest areas in Colorado and Nebraska about the European-based civilization defeating the native Americans, and the way that it conficts with the underlying myth that the west was "empty" until it was "civilized" by Europeans.
Tomorrow I plan to get together with Rodney Clapp, editor of Brazos Press, here in Chicago. We missed greatly gathering with our congregation Sunday -- we haven't heard anything yet about the day.
As it is said, "That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average."
Posted by johnwright at June 22, 2005 8:42 AM
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