Hello loved ones! After some thought and encouragement I have decided to write a blog to keep everyone up to date on my post Furman adventures. For now, I am leaving the land of sweet tea, palmetto flags, red Georgia clay, and slow southern draws for a place I have never known. I will do my best to keep this thing relatively up to date, concise, grammatically correct, and free from prefacing (like I am doing now...I have already failed). Anyone that knows me understands that these things are all very hard for me. And now for the adventure...
My Dad and I started on our week long trip across America last week on Wednesday morning, May 25th at 10:22am ET. Destination: West Glacier, Montana. There, I will be working for A Christian Ministry in the National Parks in Glacier National Park until mid September (the 3min 40sec video on the homepage actually interviews a guy named Steve German; I will be filling his shoes this summer in Glacier). I can not wait to see all that God will reveal to me through this experience!
But not so fast! Pops and I are taking the long way to Glacier and making a few stops along the way. First, we stopped by my sister Katie's workplace in Nashville, TN to say hello and drop off a few things. Then, after braving the 60mph winds, flash flood rains, and falling debris on the highway, we arrived safely in Lake St. Louis, MO at the home of our good family friends, Mike and Patty Bunch. We popped some brews and had a good late night chat in their new basement before we all headed off to bed. We woke refreshed to cool temperatures and 13 hours of driving ahead of us. We said our goodbyes, posed for some pics, crushed some Egg McMuffins (hold the butter, of course) and set out across Kansas. After driving for hours across the "The Sunflower State," we kept driving across The Sunflower State...and kept driving. And guess what, we didn't see a single sunflower! Just a whole bunch of nothing all around us for as far as we could see. There was something fascinating about this landscape, however. Maybe because it is so different from what I had ever seen before, but this slice of Americana, where we were surrounded by 360 degrees of horizons and big skies was beautiful.
After a long but rewarding day of driving, we met my sister, Kristi, at her apartment in Denver, Colorado to visit for the Memorial Day Weekend. For not having any plans before we arrived, this weekend has turned into quite the visit. Three Large Mexican meals, a river-front walking tour of Denver, a visit to Wings Over the Rockies, skiing at 13,000 feet (I hadn't been skiing in 14 years), lunch with extended family, dinner with old friends, chocolate covered apricots slices, TommyKnocker Root Beer and Wings, and a Red Rocks Church service have all culminated to possibly make the best half way point stop on any road trip known to man. Tomorrow morning, Dad and I begin the final leg of our week long trip. Over the next 2.5 days, we will be driving up through Grand Teton National Park, Yellowstone National Park, and Flathead National Forest to arrive in West Glacier, Montana on Wednesday afternoon. I have to give a shout out of praise to the big man upstairs for His wonderful creation and the opportunity to have the time to spend with Kristi in Denver and my Dad on the road to talk about life, relationships, and all the other bad drivers there are in the world.
Well, if you have read this far into my blog post you are either very bored, care for me in some way, or both. Thanks for taking time to visit and I'll try to post once I get settled in up in West Glacier. Please feel free to email me at pauljosephmoore@gmail.com or comment below; I would love to hear from you! I'll post a shipping address when I get up there...just in case...I don't know...you would like to send some goodies my way or something.
Here is my car driving/shower singing playlist as of late:
-Album: God Willin' and the Creek Don't Rise; by Ray Lamontagne and the Pariah Dogs
-Song: Palmdale (censored version); by Afroman ...I have no idea why...
-Crisis: My itunes crashed 2 days before the longest road trip of my life.
That is all for now. Please be praying for continued safe travel and that God would be preparing my heart for what He has in store for me this summer. Thanks for reading!
My Dad and I started on our week long trip across America last week on Wednesday morning, May 25th at 10:22am ET. Destination: West Glacier, Montana. There, I will be working for A Christian Ministry in the National Parks in Glacier National Park until mid September (the 3min 40sec video on the homepage actually interviews a guy named Steve German; I will be filling his shoes this summer in Glacier). I can not wait to see all that God will reveal to me through this experience!
But not so fast! Pops and I are taking the long way to Glacier and making a few stops along the way. First, we stopped by my sister Katie's workplace in Nashville, TN to say hello and drop off a few things. Then, after braving the 60mph winds, flash flood rains, and falling debris on the highway, we arrived safely in Lake St. Louis, MO at the home of our good family friends, Mike and Patty Bunch. We popped some brews and had a good late night chat in their new basement before we all headed off to bed. We woke refreshed to cool temperatures and 13 hours of driving ahead of us. We said our goodbyes, posed for some pics, crushed some Egg McMuffins (hold the butter, of course) and set out across Kansas. After driving for hours across the "The Sunflower State," we kept driving across The Sunflower State...and kept driving. And guess what, we didn't see a single sunflower! Just a whole bunch of nothing all around us for as far as we could see. There was something fascinating about this landscape, however. Maybe because it is so different from what I had ever seen before, but this slice of Americana, where we were surrounded by 360 degrees of horizons and big skies was beautiful.
After a long but rewarding day of driving, we met my sister, Kristi, at her apartment in Denver, Colorado to visit for the Memorial Day Weekend. For not having any plans before we arrived, this weekend has turned into quite the visit. Three Large Mexican meals, a river-front walking tour of Denver, a visit to Wings Over the Rockies, skiing at 13,000 feet (I hadn't been skiing in 14 years), lunch with extended family, dinner with old friends, chocolate covered apricots slices, TommyKnocker Root Beer and Wings, and a Red Rocks Church service have all culminated to possibly make the best half way point stop on any road trip known to man. Tomorrow morning, Dad and I begin the final leg of our week long trip. Over the next 2.5 days, we will be driving up through Grand Teton National Park, Yellowstone National Park, and Flathead National Forest to arrive in West Glacier, Montana on Wednesday afternoon. I have to give a shout out of praise to the big man upstairs for His wonderful creation and the opportunity to have the time to spend with Kristi in Denver and my Dad on the road to talk about life, relationships, and all the other bad drivers there are in the world.
Well, if you have read this far into my blog post you are either very bored, care for me in some way, or both. Thanks for taking time to visit and I'll try to post once I get settled in up in West Glacier. Please feel free to email me at pauljosephmoore@gmail.com or comment below; I would love to hear from you! I'll post a shipping address when I get up there...just in case...I don't know...you would like to send some goodies my way or something.
Here is my car driving/shower singing playlist as of late:
-Album: God Willin' and the Creek Don't Rise; by Ray Lamontagne and the Pariah Dogs
-Song: Palmdale (censored version); by Afroman ...I have no idea why...
-Crisis: My itunes crashed 2 days before the longest road trip of my life.
That is all for now. Please be praying for continued safe travel and that God would be preparing my heart for what He has in store for me this summer. Thanks for reading!
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