Greetings to all of our cherished family and friends back home and those that we’ve met along the way.
In this Blog post I will attempt to update ya’ll as to where were at, what were doin’, and where were goin’. Time seems to be passing a little slower these days as we head south from Kansas City, some days I wonder if tomorrow will ever come. We left KC last thursday and travelled to St. Louis where we stayed the night, then in the morning we hit the highway and cruised down to Nashville. That night in Nashville we met some “interesting” young people. We pulled into a Wal-Mart parking lot and parked near some other RV’ers, a semi, and a long camo-painted bus. The camo-painted bus immediately caught my attention, “Wow” I thought “I wonder who’s driving that”. We soon found out. We took the puppies out on the grass for some play time and pretty soon we had a crowd gathered (the puppies always draw a crowd). The folks from the camo bus came to see the pups and we learned they had just come from Gainesville FL. They had been at a big halloween music festival and now were just traveling around having “fun”, living in the bus. They were a pretty neat looking bunch, army fatigues, dreadlocks, big piercings, tattoos, rips and tears in their clothes, dirty. One of the guys told me his dogs name was Jager, fancy that we both had dogs named Jager. They were modern day hippies, or maybe gypsies, or a cross of them both, and they were very friendly and we of course had no problems from them. On saturday morning we left Nashville and set our sights on Atlanta. As we were driving we kept seeing huge signs telling us to make sure and stop and check out this place the signs called “Ruby Falls” so when we got to the turn off we did. We took the exit and proceeded to head for Ruby Falls. Half-way up Look-out mountain we found Ruby Falls, a small building on the side of the mountain with a look-out on the roof. Where’s the falls? We parked and went in side. We soon found out that Ruby Falls was one of the largest underground waterfalls in the world, and that to see it we would have to ride a elevator straight down through solid rock for 260 ft. and walk back through a maze of caves and caverns for about 30 minutes to see it. Well, after giving up my left leg and most of the kids college savings to cover the admission we were on our way down, down in to the darkness. Well, not really, it was decently lit so you could clearly see where we were going and enjoy all the awesome rock and crystal formations. It was really pretty cool, and the falls themselves were awesome. After that we headed for Atlanta again.
By the time we got there it was almost dark so we found the nearest Wal-Mart on the GPS and headed there. Surprise, surprise, Wal-Marts in Atlanta don't allow RV'ers to park overnight, and neither do Costco's, or K-Marts. Heck you can't park anywhere without being towed, we know, we drove to half a dozen different places and got the same message at every one. We googled truck stops, we weren't near any of those, no campgrounds in the middle of Atlanta, so we decided to start looking just outside of Atlanta. We finally just decided to park at a wally-mart in a suburb called Riverdale and pray that they wouldn't tow us. We didn't get towed but we did experience some subtle discrimination when we went in to grab some groceries. What we discovered was that Riverdale was a mostly Afro-American low income neighbourhood and apparently not many, how do you say, uh, "Caucasian" people shopped there. The looks we got told us we weren't really welcome, and that we were kind of an oddity. Oh well, we get that a lot these days. We shipped out of Riverdale first thing in the morning not sure where we were going but knowing we had to go somewhere. You see, the Puppies are 8 weeks old this week. And Atlanta was the only city near our path that had an airport large enough to ship puppies from the US to Canada in the winte,r because the plane has to have a heated Cargo Hold and only the really big, nice planes have those. So "chuck" fly's out on friday from Atlanta to his new home in Saskatoon with some really great friends of ours the Locke's. That's why were in Atlanta this week. We are waiting to fly chuck.
We did eventually find a place to park in a small city just outside Atlanta called Peachtree City. Peachtree City is super-rich, super fancy, and super yuppie community designed in such a way that the whole city is Golf-Cart accessible. Special overpasses for golf-carts to pass underneath, special golf-cart lanes, golf-cart parking stalls, golf-cart trails, everything. Yesterday we saw the Police out patrolling in their golf-carts, and a family with their kid in a car seat at the local McDonalds. The cops actually had a golf-cart pulled over and were writing the guy some kind of ticket. Blows my mind.
We've been having a lot of fun here. People look at us funny, I think they can tell were not rich, but were used to people looking at us funny. We've been facing a lot more challenges lately too. The kind that stretch your faith and make you really hope the Father's listening. Finding places to shower, places to dump the MH and to fill up water. But our God is faithful. Thats why were here, and thats why were doing what were doing. Our God is a God who can be trusted and relied upon 110% and is faithful to look after His children when we walk in obedience to Him. I hope that through our choice to do this trip and to endure the hardships in store for us the world will see that our God is real and that He is mighty to save.
Please continue to pray for us that God would provide all our needs along the way, and that He would arrange divine appointments for us. Thank you to all of you for following along with us. Not a day goes by that we don't think of home. It was sad to miss the ordination last sunday but we are rejoicing along with you all.
Thanks for Journeying with us.
The Schafer
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