Left this morning at around 7:30 AM, arriving at our hotel at close to 10:00 pm.

Took the mine tour in Wallace, ID. Would recommend it to anyone!

Took the folks up to Bonners Ferry and around - taking a tour of the area.

After work (which included but not limited to a trip to the dump, a run to deliver some shelves to Barney, re-enforcing some shelving, stacking a skid of books on the shelves, IT work and web maintenance) Jim was kind enough to shoot my picture for me. Barney came and we had a good time. After which had some Coldstone...

An over-due update. Joe came out 2 weeks ago to help put my bathroom back together. This was the first thing I ripped out when I bought the place almost 3 years ago, but hadn't gotten to putting it back together. I was sure thankful that Joe came to get the job started! He hoped to get more done, but what we got done was great. All the plumbing moved, electric done, shower in and sheetrock up. I'm currently mudding, hope to have it done by the end of the week.

However, the sink in my other bathroom was a different story. I bought a yard-sale sink, then put on a faucet. Then I found out the sink was too small for the hole left from the other sink! Now, the options mounted. Barney ended up talking me into putting tile down, which is what we did on Saturday. Today we grouted and should seal it up in a couple days. I'm very thankful for Barney's help in putting that together, too!

Today I am confined to my house. Some sinus thing going on. I left work early last 2 days, and yesterday finally decided that I should rest up a bit. At first I wrestled with the decision, as there is so much to do. But it has been good to sit and read and think and pray. And work on past pictures. I read the last half of Ps 119, and was encouraged by that, but a bit surprised. That’s all I’ll say here—give you something to read and ponder yourself. But before I go, I leave you with this. And remember, this just points to how wonderful is the Lord who made it all (just by speaking, that is, except for us!)

Yesterday I drove out to Bellingham to see the Laws, spent the night, and then today drove down to Seattle to pick up an skid of Korean Stranger books. Along the way, I was able to stop and see Gene as well as Dan and Joan. While we can have these shipped to our office, it’s cheaper for me to pick them up, as well as giving me an opportunity to visit with friends. Besides, it’s a road trip. And you all needed to know what Washington looks like. Right?

Drove home today. Took Highway 4 in Washington (on the north side of the Colombia Gorge this time, and will continue this in the future.) Still 8 hours of driving, and good to be done w/ driving for a few days.

Left Yosemite and took Hwy 120 out (had to create a new GPS track) and spent the night with the Palos in Philomath.

Left Fresno this morning at around 6:00, arriving in the valley at around 8:30. (I can be a little more specific if you like.) I started hiking before 9:00 (8:58:01 am), finishing at 6:11:41 pm. I hiked around 16 miles, up around 4,600 feet up and down. In all it was a great day, and would do it again with snowshoes. My plan was to go up Tenaya Canyon, to North Dome and down Yosemite Falls. With the amount of snow up there this time of year, it wasn’t feasible without snowshoes or skies. Too bad I left both at home! After hiking, Ken and I went to the buffet and I re-energized before a shower and sleep.

Some misc shots of Vegas today…

Probably one of the longest drives I had in a l-o-n-g time. Took an indirect route to my destination (Racetrack Playa) and couldn’t make it due to the low clearance on the Corolla. On the way I out, I tried to get out of the valley to the South (I had come in the North) but couldn’t pull the hill as I was just spinning (although I didn’t try it in reverse.) In the end, we left the way we came, adding only 120 miles, but 8:20 hours to the trip! It was like driving about 60-70 miles of washboard, but was beautiful however. Glad I went, but won’t do it without a DRZ.

Good drive today - no major problems.

First leg of the trip—leaving Cour d’Alene, and headed to Medford, OR. Took some back roads—more direct, less miles, more time, less gas!

I realize I haven’t updated much, but it’s hard to write and say I’ve been working in the office, doing office stuff. Answering phones, packing boxes, this and that. One thing I have been working on lately is looking at some back-up software for our server, trying to get another solution for backing up all our files. I have been looking at Acronis, which looks to be the ticket for us. However, I’m still on a trial version, and will be for a few more weeks.

Today, being Wednesday, I was packing boxes. There was quite a few today, with a lot of non-standard shipping problems (like people using Media Mail for Tabernacle items, which we can’t do and requires getting in contact with them to charge more for the UPS option, etc.) Those type of things tend to slow down the whole process.

One other thing is trying to get ready for a trip to NAB in Vegas, starting on Saturday. Most everything is done, really, but the packing. I’m planing on picking up Ken again and drive down to catch up on all the new technology in the video world.