Several stops along the way, the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam and the Pat Tillman bridge, Flagstaff AZ, Shamrock TX, Tupelo MS and Marietta GA.
We loaded all of Pat's stuff, books, bike, dog and headed for home. Pat isn't done on campus until the middle of December, and he will be driving home and doesn't have rooms for stuff, so that's the reason for the trip. We did enjoy getting to visit and tour the campus at Life University.
Pat and Leigh share the apartment. They have both just been notified that they have been chosen to go to China in January for part of their internship work.
On the way home we stopped in Arkansas to visit Lori and Dennis. We had not seen the house that Dennis and Lori built. When you get off the interstate highways you can see some awesome scenery. Dennis took the day off and we hiked through his childhood stomping grounds and he showed us some of the prettiest places.
This is Lori and Dennis' home. It is beautiful as well as a work of art and heart! Dennis used timber logged from his families property and finished all the wood beams by hand. Inside it is gorgeous!!
We made it to Iowa. We spent a day and a half in Des Moines visiting Terry's sister Carol and her husband Ken. Carol and I went to a Holiday Bazaar that was huge! Bought a couple of cool items and had a great day. I actually got to see my first bright red Cardinal at Carols house. Ken had just put up the bird feeder and it didn't take them long to find it. Wow, are they pretty birds.
This picture is taken at Terry's cousin Deans farm place in Klemme Iowa. Dean had restored and painted up this old tractor and I took it for a spin around the machine shed.
In Des Moines, we visited Terry's Aunt Harriet and also Terry's cousins daughter who just had a baby. Sara is the proud mom of Cooper!! I got to hold the baby which was very special.
This is a picture of Lori and Dennis in Arkansas in front of their fire place.
More Arkansas pictures of the cool land formations carved out by the waterways.
This is a pretty purple berry that was growing in the underbrush in Arkansas. I will have to look up the name of it cause I have never seen these before.
In Iowa we had a fish fry. Byron and Millie and Dean and Debbie brought the fish and the fryer and we set up in Aunt Vivian's garage and visited with relatives and friends that just happened to be passing by.
This is Dean and Debbie and Gracie at their home in Klemme.
Card night at Vivian's house. Marian and Al and Kim and Dave and Vivian play cards on Sunday evenings. So we were in time to join them. We are playing Chicken foot dominos.
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