Back on the left coast

We left Koinonia farm Friday morning, we went into Americus and toured the Habitat for Humanity Global village. They have some actual huts and shanties that people live in in some of the slums of the world setup in a little village, then you go to some examples of the kind of homes they help build to replace them. If you are ever near Americus Georgia I recommend that you visit. The houses they build are pretty basic, I doubt you could get many Americans to live in them, but compared to what they were living in they are quite a step up. We left there and hit the road heading west. We drove out of Georgia, across Alabama and Mississippi and stopped for the night just across the Mississippi river in Louisiana. D'Linda only wanted to drive 6 or 8 hours a day, but I didn't mind the driving, and didn't want to just sit somewhere. I remembered that I wanted to stop at The Grove Church in Chandler AZ, we figured out the time it would take and I figured we had about 7 hours to spare, so we could even stop and get some sleep. We headed out early and got halfway across Louisiana before it got light. We made it to Fort Worth about noon and found a Costco Gas. We had missed them, we had been using them until we hit Houston on the way east, but they don't have any in the Deep South. We also picked up a couple of audio books there. We listened to one across most of west Texas, it is pretty boring scenery there and it helped. We stopped for the night about 150 miles east of El Paso. I woke up about 1:30 and didn't think I would be able to get back to sleep so I figured it would assure us of making Chandler before 11:00. I put in the other book and headed out. We made it to western New Mexico before I started getting tired so we pulled into a truck stop to get a little nap. The wind was blowing pretty hard there and it had been work keeping the motorhome on the road. We still had a couple hours to spare so I took a nap. I woke up and went into the restroom, when I went in the wind was still blowing, but it wasn't that cold. I didn't think I was in there that long, but when I came out it was colder and starting to snow. I didn't think it would last long so I decided to head out. We only made it two exits before we had to pull off, it was snowing so hard the wipers couldn't keep up. There went our two hour cushion. We headed out again, but we were going slower because of the wind and we were afraid it would start snowing again. By the time we made it to Tucson we had decided we weren't going to make it to Chandler in time so we went to Costco for gas. The weather cleared up and it was beautiful the rest of the day. We drove up to Mesa and went to a big flea market, then to Suncity and spent two nights in Karen's (D'Linda's good friend) mother's driveway. We left there just before dawn and made it to Andrea's house just before noon today. The girls were excited to see us, and it is great to be here. I'm not sure how long we'll stay, but we checked the weather back home and it says rain for as far as they can see, so we might stay for awhile. I will write more about Koinonia soon, but I'm still trying to sort out my thoughts on it.