For the kids’ last couple of days I found a fancy campground with every amenity for kids entertainment.  We spent two nights but really just one day there and could not possibly try all the fun stuff!  It wasn’t a great “camp” ground, the sites were narrow and hard to get into and kids were […]

Fond Du Lac, WI – It is with great emotion that I look back on our travels over the past 5-6 months. This will be my final blog post. If you have found even the tiniest speck of joy in reading this, it was worth it. On our first Monday here, we set up the […]

Our stay in Fond du Lac has been a wonderful “vacation” to wind down our sabbatical even though it was cut three days short. No regrets!!!  Breezy Hills Campground is great with nice, well-kept, wide sites and every amenity you can think of.  To top it off, the weather has been pretty close to perfect […]

On the church website, where one can learn about all the things to do in Nauvoo, you will find a quote from Joseph Smith from the Times & Seasons, May 2, 1842.  It says “Generations yet unborn will dwell with peculiar delight upon the scenes that we have passed through, the privations that we have […]

As soon as we arrived in Nauvoo, Myra and I got dressed accordingly and went to do baptisms at the temple. While we were being baptized, the power went out in the temple, so we did them in the dark. After changing and being confirmed, the temple workers took us to see the 5-story spiral […]

We were driving into Independence, about 1.5 miles from our camp, when a driver honked at us to tell us that one of our trailer tires was nearly flat.  It was quite a relief to be so close to camping.  It was very hot in Independence but we were able to relax once we got […]