It’s hard to find time to blog when you’re on the road and seeing people all the time. I find that Mildred and I are having more wonderful experiences than there is time to tell about them. So I’ll just mention a few highlights. So far, we’ve driven well over 4,500 miles. We’ve slept in [...]
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Lousey Weather – Wonderful Trip
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On the Road Again – Tomorrow
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It’s been a good week here at the Sipes farm, but a wet, cool week. In between rain showers, I got to drive Mildred’s dad’s big mower for a while. I even got to break it and fix it. I was almost done mowing and was starting to make that last left turn, but the [...]
As the Land Crab Said Halfway Across the Road …
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So far, so good. Of course, we’re not even close to being half way done with furlough, but we’ve already experienced a pile of blessings. Today we are in Maryland, near Washington, D. C. We got to spend most of the day yesterday playing tourist and exploring some of the museums and monuments along Washington’s [...]
Beauty and the Beast
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I think that “Beauty and the Beast” might be a good description of this place where we live. And both characters are one here. I’ve been back from Utila since last Sunday (the 27th) and wanting to tell you all about it, but there have just been too many things going on around here. So [...]
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Just a Quick Word or Maybe Several
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Last week was quite a week. I left with Ken Anderson and Carl Hompsted on Friday, March 18 to go to Utila and finish replacing the guy cables on our AM tower over there. We just got back Sunday morning (yesterday). It was a very successful time over on Utila. I’ll have to tell you [...]
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Getting Ready Week
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I think that phrase best describes this week. As I type, Mildred is getting ready to go to La Ceiba in the morning with Sandi. Mildred needs a couple of medical tests done and Sandi has graciously agreed to go with her to help with translation. I will stay here and get ready to go [...]
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MUD!!! EVERYWHERE!!!
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That’s been the story of our lives this week. It started raining Saturday night and rained 24/7 for about three days. On Tuesday morning, the weather forecast was for a 50% chance of rain. They almost always say 30%. I looked at the satellite pictures and told our radio listeners that the internet weather forecasters [...]
Back from Utila
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It’s sure good to be back home. Utila is a beautiful place, as you’ll see if you look through the photo gallery at the end of this article. But there’s no place like home, especially when Mildred’s at home and I’m not. Then, too, there are the extra long days I put in over there [...]
Cruise ship guests lighten our week
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It’s been a a week of struggles, but it sure helps when we get visitors from up north. Our friends, Curt and Carol Andrews, visited us Wednesday on a cruise. What an encouragement! They had a bit of a surprise for us when they got here. Carol had asked what they could bring that is [...]
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Good to be home
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As our friends on Facebook, already know, we made it back to Roatán Saturday in one piece, but very tired. Mildred and I had a wonderful time in Tampa. I think that we got to spend more time with Jesse and Kristin than ever before since their marriage in 2006. We got to see lots [...]
Going where we’ve never gone before
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Our adventure trip back to Roatán began without incident. Jesse and Kristin drove us to the airport in Orlando. We had our last dose of McDonald’s fries and Krispy Kreme donuts and then we ran the security gauntlet – which went unusually smoothly. Once we got off the tram to the “A” terminal we sat [...]
Headed South Again!
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Tomorrow, on Friday,we begin our journey home. I say begin because we don’t arrive home in Roatán until Saturday. We spend the night on Friday night in the airport in Guatemala City. That will be a new experience because we’ve never traveled through that airport before. It was good to have a restful time with [...]