A workout, church, laundry and dinner out, almost time for home

After a good early morning workout in the fitness center here at Voyager, I returned to the trailer and made sure that Joan was up and around as she asked.

We’ve missed going to church for a couple weeks so we found a local Anglican church via the Internet and I talked to the priest by phone on Saturday about the services.

Just because we’re on the road doesn’t mean we don’t miss our church family or our weekly worship, so we usually try and find a nice church to visit. We have never been disappointed by the reception we get or the quality of the services or sermons.

A couple greeted us at the door of St. Jude’s Anglican Church and attesting to the small world we know that it is found out that they were just recently in Fenton, Michigan visiting their daughter who is a nurse at Genesys Hospital in Grand Blanc.

They expressed a desire to come worship with us and our church the next time they come to Michigan to visit their daughter.

The service was beautiful, much like the Episcopal services I remember as a young man in the 1950s. The church continues to use the old Hymnal and the 1928 Prayer Book. It was all very familiar. Fr. Mark preached on the wonderful spirit and gifts of St. Francis.

Fr. Mark is a Marine who later became a police officer and eventually a police chief of a small city in South Carolina, I believe. So we had the service and police work in common.

After church we headed back to the RV park so Joan could do some laundry and so we could both watch the San Francisco 49ers and Detroit Lions football game. That turned out badly for the Lions.

With wheels up day on Tuesday, I began the process of determining what is going to remain in the trailer when we store it in Amarillo, Texas and what will travel home with us in the Tahoe. We are leaving our summer clothes with the trailer, but taking home our more wintry clothes.

We’ll finish that tomorrow and be ready to hook up and get out of here early Tuesday.

It was hot again today and with food supplies dwindling in the trailer we decided to try the little bar and grill in the park tonight. Joan had the Chicken Cordon Bleu special and I went for the Classic Meat Loaf. Both were very good and reasonably priced.

Tomorrow and Tuesday we will clean out everything left in the refrigerator and freezer as we spend our last two nights in the trailer, for awhile.

 We are looking forward to a weekend with my sister Laura and brother-in-law Philip in Chicago and then the short jaunt home on Monday (the 24^th).