Friday September 24, 2010

A few hours later we were ready for a snack, and bought a delicious berry muffin at Star Bucks – and shared it. I think it was the best muffin I have ever eaten.

By late morning it began to rain – quite heavily at times.

Truckers must keep going – sunshine or rain

Even though it is not fun for truckers to drive in rain…

…it is even worse for those on motorcycles.

Someone gave us two twelve-inch Subway subs the day before, so we shared one for supper, and put the other in our travel refrigerator for lunch on this first day of travel. I added a McDonalds hazlenut latte to my lunch. It was delicious.

We had traveled through several tunnels before reaching Wheeling, West Virginia.

I loved our drive through the hills of eastern Ohio on Route 250. I love any road that is not an interstate.

It was auction day in Kidron, so the little village was filled with Amish.

It was shortly after this that we delivered chapel chairs to Chaplain Jason and Shannon Nussbaum – just hours before the tornado destroyed their house. If you missed that entry, go here.

After leaving Jason’s house, we went to Wayne County Fair to see the TFC staff who were manning the booth.

This friendly cow was anxious to have her picture taken!

We easily found the TFC display booth, and visited with the chaplains who were on duty.

They had a really nice display.

Answering questions about the ministry

Rain was threatening when we left the fair.

We weren’t in the car very long before it really rained.

It was here that we noticed a very black sky to our north, and later learned about the tornado that tore the roof off of Jason and Shannon’s house. Use the above link to read about it.

It was still quite blustery when we arrived at our motel.

We had the most unique room (Comfort Inn). You could enter the bathtub/shower from either side (bedroom or bathroom).

We continued to hear tornado warnings all evening, but were pleased that none touched down in our area.