Yesterday was basic from-here-to-there travel, starting in New Orleans and ending... I'm not sure where. I know I drove atop ocean-side sea walls and paralleled beaches. I noticed 2nd home communities on tip-toe atop 2 and 3 story stilts to avoid the dangers of rising waters. My intended destinations got changed. My mid day hunger changed the path. And mosquitoes changed where I slept. It was a good day.
I'm writing from my Texas office with the Golden Arches and free WiFi after awaking to a misty sunrise in a Walmart parking lot. It brought to mind an old hymn that says, "When morning gilds the sky, my heart awakening cries, let Jesus Christ be praised!"
I got to the Walmart parking lot for a little car camping because when I stopped for the night at Galveston Island state park, the only other tenter there had to fire warning shots at the Texas mosquitoes that were trying to carry off my GMC Terrain.
Unarmed myself, no bug spray or itch control, and unable to sleep in the humid 80 degree night with the windows closed, I moved on. First stop a drug store to stop the itch and prevent further invasion. Then done I drove on, thankful for adventure, resources and the hope of a better land ahead. God Provides!
Well, Pastor Dave, you're a better man than me.
ReplyDeleteBeing "run out of town by mosquitoes" would have pushed me to a motel, not a Wal-mart parking lot. :)
Sounds like quite an adventure. Was it supposed to be an adventure?