reflections

well we have been on the road for almost 7 weeks! this is us a couple of days ago packing the car. we look like ... well vagabonds :) from now on we are generally heading back toward home. we may take detours and whatnot and we may end up staying put somewhere (you never know) but this really is a turning point in our trip.

Austin and I thinking about stuff at the Harvard campus.
a sweet fountain.



there are some wise words written on the walls of this building.
there is a lot of water in DC and Thomas caught a cool reflection off of some of it.

yesterday Austin and I met a guy who was writing his 3rd book i think. one of his other books was about an adventure where he walked across America titled "Walk about America". he asked us what we thought the most important issue currently facing Americans was and i decided that it was freedom of speech. we had a good chat with him and then headed back "home" to our tent which is pitched in Thomas's friends yard. we cooked some dinner and then went to bed.

this morning we got up and cooked again (yay for cooked food!) and then found a church online instead of our usual wandering method. it seems the Lord can use the internet just as well as the path of our subaru :)

the church we visited was good and had a good message. we met a bunch of nice people and two couples took us out to eat! as i write this i am still completely stuffed from lunch. i had chocolate cake and chocolate milk (in addition to other food) which i had been craving for quite some time. we talked for hours about our adventures and got to hear their stories as well. it is really fun to talk to people who have more life experience than we do. a lot of the topics we hit on were really spiritually uplifting and encouraging which is really good for us. another couple overheard our conversations and came over to visit with us. it turns out she had been in the room with Ronald Reagan during the evening of his inauguration! we got to listen to even more awesome stories of other peoples adventures which was really neat. story time is good time :)

i guess this about brings us up to date. tomorrow we are going to see even more museums!