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Double Time March

Posted in General, Photo, Travel, tagged Photos, Travel on July 6, 2013| Leave a Comment »

My wife and I took a quick trip to visit the 2nd lieutenant son at Fort Benning over the long weekend off for the 4th. We spent a considerable amount of time at the National Infantry Museum owing both to its quality and to the incessant rain. The Riverwalk in Columbus is interesting also:

Shoals on Cataloochee at Columbus

Great Blue Heron fishing The center of town is nice, too.

Broadway scene

War is a necessary evil in this fallen world. Consider how the infantrymen have bought and maintained our freedom. They are not the ones deciding we should be in a particular place at a particular time. Look somewhere else to determine or blame for why we fight certain wars.

Civil War era cannon shot

Bradley light armored troop transport

Ranger Monument

What are we using now?

Barracks

Right flank of the Battle of the Bulge is where my father took shrapnel

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Costa Rica

Posted in Beauty, General, Outdoors, Photo, Travel, tagged Beauty, Outdoors, Photos, Travel on June 29, 2011| 2 Comments »

Five students, two parents, and I went on a tour of the natural beauty of Costa Rica from June 17-25. It was a very active tour walking, ziplining, horseback riding, walking, swimming in the ocean and in a lake, walking, swam in hot springs, and kayaking. The walks were never long but the destinations were great. We walked along a forest trail about 1 mile to get to a pristine beach where monkeys and raccoons stole food and backpacks. We walked perhaps 2 miles in the Cloud Forest above 5000′ where full sunlight rarely shines. We walked to town to eat or shop. We walked on the beach at the hotel. We walked and ran through airports. We walked down into a gorge to see a 150′ waterfall. We walked to the rim of an active volcano and looked at the cadera steaming. And we spent a good number of hours each day on a tour bus between events.

One of the many beauties of InBio Parque

Our Tour Director, Victor Carmona

We traveled with two other student groups, one from Nebraska and one from Lancaster, PA. The Pennsylvania group particularly was advanced in Spanish and could communicate or translate with little trouble.

Great Egret

One afternoon we took a boat ride on a river near its mouth at the ocean. We went upstream and saw massive crocodiles and went downstream and saw to a mangrove forest. During the 1 1/2 hour ride I saw 22 different species of birds.

Yellow-headed Caracara

Another day we hiked down hundreds of steps to a waterfall. The rain threatened and sprinkled but as was the case with all but one event, it didn’t rain on us while we were outside. The one event was the planting of trees on a preserve at a high school. For obvious reasons I don’t have pictures of that because it rained hard.

Teacher and students of Escuela Cabella

Kayaking in sight of the Arenal Volcano

The continuously steaming caldera of Poas Volcano

There is a continuous burning place where those who reject God’s provision for sin will go, but there is also a place of paradise where His beloved, those who humbly accept His provision will be in His presence forever. Beauty and peace and joy here are only vague shadows of an eternity in the presence of God. We were made for fellowship with Him.

600 meter zipline

Beach at Manuel Atonio National Park

The variety of what we saw and did made this a very enjoyable trip. Rather than sleep on the bus or just stare out the window, I took in the views but also journaled the events soon after they happened, some 30 pages. Victor was constantly conveying details of a cultural or biological or physical nature about Costa Rica. It is a landscape of tremendous natural resources: water, volcanic soil, tropical climate, a stable government, and people who seem happy and productive.

“Pura vida”, as they say in Costa Rica, or literally, “pure life”. It is there way of saying peace and contentment in all of life’s joys and struggles. May the light of God’s life be given unto you as I hope it might be for the people of Costa Rica.

La Fortuna Waterfall

Everywhere beautiful flowers, butterflies, birds, mountains, beaches

San Jose at night from a rustic resturant

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Paris deux

Posted in General, Photo, Travel, tagged Photos, Travel on February 24, 2011| 1 Comment »

Napoleon III's smoking parlor at the Louvre

I had traveled six years ago to Montana at no cost. As a single income teacher I haven’t much disposable income. The bills are paid and I have no complaint about God’s provision. In fact this is a testimony to His abundant provision. After those six years I began to think over a week’s time about traveling again. So I ask my Heavenly Father if He would provide me with another trip, adding that I would be content if no trip occurred. Less than two weeks later the company I am traveling with to Costa Rica this summer called to sell me on pursuing a student trip since I had e-mailed desire to find out about such things several years earlier. It was obviously a sales pitch from their perspective but I chose to see it as an answer to prayer and an encouragement to my faith. I’m not pushing health and wealth lifestyle but we may ask and God is very generous. Then I find out that the company also has training tours for first time group leaders and that is why I went to Paris. I prayed for and was given many opportunities to testify to God’s goodness, the Gospel, His power, and the need for faith. It was a good trip in many respects. Enjoy the pictures.

Emperor Trajan

Stone of the Catacombs listing martyrs' names and Chi Rho at center

Code of Hammurabi ca.1750 BC

Coffee Shop near the Naval Academy

Birds in the hair are the style, right?

Sword of Charlemayne

The Gardens of Versailles

Hall of Mirrors

Notre Dame Cathedral

Eifel Tower

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Paris!!

Posted in General, Photo, Travel, tagged Photos, Travel on February 22, 2011| 3 Comments »

I just got back from a quick trip to Paris! Leaving on Thursday morning I arrived in Paris at 7:50 AM Paris time. We began tour immediately, meaning I went on about 4 hours sleep in a 30 hour day. We visited all the sites and I didn’t have to pay for plane, meals, sites, or hotel. Looking down the Champs Elysees to the Arch de Triomphe to the west and the Louvre to the east, I was amazed to be there. I ran all over the Louvre in four hours from ancient Greek and Roman statuary to Reformation paintings. I saw the Mona Lisa, Winged Victory of Samothrace, Venus de Milo, statues of the Caesars, winged bulls of the Assyrians, the Code of Hammurabi, the apartments of Napoleon III, Medieval. Renssaince, and Reformation paintings. I went up in the Eifel Tower, down along the Seine River, later in a night boat ride around the islands of Paris and down to the Eifel Tower. I visited three cathedrals, Versailles and its gardens, walked up Montmarte artist district, ate in the Latin Quarter, navigated the Metro, and flew internationally for the first time, and more. Check out a few of my pictures.