Back on the Road, Northbound

Our 3-week project ended Thursday with a BBQ Buffet dinner courtesy of Larry who was our liaison person.  The bulk of our work at Circle of Care was to completely paint all cupboards in a kitchen of one of the houses, replace 3 exterior doors in a variety of buildings, repair other doors and windows, paint shutters, and repair exterior columns and their bases.  This photo shows one of the smaller columns. 

 

John and Judy, two of our original project members, left for scheduled medical reasons a  week ago, and were replaced by Joe and Pat for our last week.  They fit in well for such a short time.

 

About 25 to 30 miles south of here is another Circle of Care facility: the Boys Ranch at Gore.  Our work group went on a field trip last Tuesday to see it and the needs they have there.  A different Nomads group will be gathering there over the weekend to spend the next three weeks.  One of our group is headed there to work back-to-back projects before taking a break.

 

We stayed at Tahlequah for an extra day on Friday in order to do some laundry and other errands and to meet up with Everett and Elizabeth, whom we worked with over 2 years ago in Missouri.  They are leaders for the project about to start in Gore.  We met in the late afternoon, went to dinner at Sam ‘n’ Ella’s, and came back to our place to talk even more.  It was great to meet up with them again and get caught up.  We plan to see them again later this summer.

 

Saturday, we had a tailwind to help blow us into Missouri.  US71 has now been improved to Interstate standards, and is labeled as Interstate 49.  We stopped for the night outside of Kansas City, close to Interstate 435 and close to the local amusement park called Worlds of Fun.

The screaming should stop by sunset so we can get some sleep.

 

Tomorrow we will end up at Forest City, Iowa for our warranty work.  We’ll be there for about 5 days.