This morning our son left our home for the last time as a member of our own household. He is on his own as an adult. On Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 we left on our first highpointing trip, bagging Nebraska and Kansas in a single day, and Oklahoma the next. That was just under six years ago. He is now preparing to be a world traveler and missionary at Moody Bible Institute in Spokane, Washington. In our brief career we climbed, walked, and drove up to 17 state highpoints. We had a lot of fun and bonded together in our father-son relationship. God blessed the original idea, and honored the thought that these adventures on road and hill and mountain would be a nice easel on which to paint a relationship and see our beloved country. We did.
Tomorrow morning is a new day. My beautiful daughter is 15 and ready to get to know her dad and have some fun, quirky adventures along the way. Different car; different child; new highpoints. We will begin our 3300 mile journey with Mount Sunflower, Kansas, and finish with Panorama Point, Nebraska, the first two Turner and I did together. In between: Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, and Iowa... five new summits to locate and conquer. Though perhaps summits is too much of a word for the high points of the Great Plains. Tomorrow, the road. Tomorrow.
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Congrats to Turner on his new calling and to you and Renee for his years of marvelous preparation.
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