In about 16 hours, the big grey van will roll down the driveway, bound for Arkansas. Some friends were kind enough to loan us a small cargo trailer, and we are busily filling it up with clothes to wear and fun things to do and yummy things to eat. This time I got the easy job: assemble the travel toolkit. Comprised of a flashlight, flares, jumper cables, two sizes of channel-locks, duct tape, and sundry other items, it all packs nicely into a little orange box, with the exception of the fire extinguisher and wheel lug wrench.
No trip preparations are complete without a painstakingly selected reading menu. Here's what my diet will consist of for the next few weeks - about 1,343 pages in all:
Heroes And Heretics - Barrows Dunham
The Complete Book Of Chess Strategy - Jeremy Silman
The Everlasting Man - G. K. Chesterton
Annapurna - Maurice Herzog
My Bible is also on the stack, along with a journal - just in case any thoughts pop into my head that are worth writing down. The iPod is staying home.
Aside from taking Jesse up Half Dome for his 13th, I'm pretty wound down due to not working most of July. I have enjoyed very much the time to rest and read and think, and the blog (Dad calls it "posting into the ether") has been more fun than I expected. (Note to self: be careful to avoid those insidious "idle words." Mt. 12:36)
As always, your prayer is appreciated. We want to be "redeeming the time, because the days are evil." Online access while traveling is often sketchy. I will, however, make an attempt to share some thoughts from the road and hopefully some cups of cold water.
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