NY Creek

NY Creek
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Seth in the creek on the NY campout... Family reunion, too.

Seth at the Susquehanna

Seth at the Susquehanna
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We took this really great trip in the beginning of July, up to NY. My parents just bought like 80 acres up there and the boys and I camped for about 9 days... JP came up and helped us, too. My ribs were really broken, so he did some farm work, too.

Seth at Rehoboth Beach, DE

Seth at Rehoboth Beach, DE
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Just want to drop a foto of Rehoboth beach on here. I gotta say, it was fantastic just to be near a dear friend... with dear friends...

Old Men with Skateboards

Met a guy today on my second visit to the Florence outdoor skatepark... Mark. He's older than me by about 12 years, grayer, with a more advanced paunch than my "starter kit paunch". He's out there with his shirt tucked into his pants, his insulin pump on his hip, pulls out a dogtown bullet from his car... wide trucks, soft wheels... seriously old school...

I freak out! get talking to him, he takes me to his car and WOW! He's got a like 55 inch longboard! It's like as tall as me! So I am showing him my new one, he's showing me his...

I predict a total renaissance of longboarding and old-school style. We're tired of bustin our shins on stuff. Let's feel some wind! Three years and there'll be a wave of land surfing...

So, turns out mark'o's a pastor. So we're thinkin on starting an old-guy hill bomber club... coming soon...

I love the connections I'm getting by just BEING out there... I get hurt a lot, but I really feel like the Spirit's saying, "get out there and be salt, man!"

At Bansens' Northern Indiana

Up here at Shawn and Ginger's house... They're leaving to california to attend a Discipleship Training School with Youth with a Mission in Chico... They'll spend 3 months there, three in the field... Good, overnight goodbye visit... Kids played, we cooked, ate, prayed, talked... We won't miss them. We're with them, y'know?

delaware

i went down to delaware from Philly... i took Aaron and Seth and Malika and Saida down there, Also Katy and Lia from Germany...

We drove about 2 hours from Philly to Rehoboth Beach...
Got there in the 5pmishness. Hotel. Beach by 930pm.

germany, tajikistan, kyrgyzstan

took aaron and Seth to Philly, with two students from tajikistan and kyrgyzstan, to pick up two tourists from Germany (friends of family) who were stranded in an emergency.

visited liberty bell

drove to rehoboth beach, Delaware
nighttime beach visit
bought a DogTown Longboard (Skateboard) and used it to make three trips to car (mile away), with Seth on my back.
Breakfast with John Wallis
Beach till noon
saw Sydney and all the kids (15) at the beach...

drove back home
arrived 3:30am

happily home...

judy back last night from 4 day training students in Sanfrancisco