BFS #131 – Trusted Everywhere (Duracell)

Memory Verse: Genesis 20:13 and it came about, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said to her, ‘This is the kindness which you will show to me: everywhere we go, say of me, “He is my brother.’””

Introduction: Trusted Everywhere (Duracell Batteries) Easy Week. It was supposed to be Nancy’s week, she had planned on posting a simple assignment, but she’s gone, and her assignment isn’t here. So.. Because Nancy is traveling, I thought we’d talk about Everywhere, or Anywhere.

Assignment: Where have you been?  Where have you traveled?  What was the purpose of your trip?

Here’s mine:

Thank you Sombra for covering for me!  You’re the BEST!!!  For my assignment I wanted to write about some of my childhood travels.  Our lives outside of school were like a living field trip when I was growing up.  My father was in the Marines for 30 years and we traveled because of his work.   After his retirement and we thought we’d finally be able to settle down but he was feeling the call to preach, so he went to Theological Seminary school and we traveled just as much then.  Even throughout the years of being transferred from one town or state to another our family loved to travel.

I remember the biggest and longest trip we went on.  We traveled from Beaufort, SC to Nova Scotia, Canada.  Another family traveled with us so we had tailgated along the way. I don’t remember that trip ever feeling like it was uncomfortable to be in the car for all those long hours.  I remember it being days that we traveled because we stopped along the way.  We went to the Washington DC zoo and I remember riding on one of those giant turtles…that’s funny that I remember that because I was always so afraid of doing anything new. Fear never stopped me much back then and I would guess that’s because I had a lot of encouragement from my brothers and sisters and my parents.  After leaving we drove to NYC and went through the Lincoln Tunnel.  I don’t remember if that was the first tunnel I had ever gone through or not, but it’s highly doubtful.  I remember all the cars around us and their horns blowing for the entire length of the tunnel…something we still do!  After leaving NYC we drove up to Maine and from their boarded a ferry boat called the Blue Noser.  It was an 8-10 hour ride and all the kids LOVED every minute of it!~  We had lots of fun laughing at everyone puking on the tail end of the boat…just running and telling my mom about it got her started too.  That ferry ride was probably the most fun I’ve ever had in my life and I’d love to do it again with my daughters, grandchildren and husband and son-in-law.

Once we got to Nova Scotia, I don’t have a clue who it was we stayed with but we sure had fun!  We climbed the cliffs on the edge of the ocean and visited some prison for some really strange reason!  Remember the movie Scared Straight, well I was only 9 and much too frail to have ever gone against my parents wishes, but that’s what it felt like.  I had really long hair and one of the prisoners kept trying to grab my hair. My sisters and I often wonder what in the world made our dad take us into a place like that.  I remember eating lots of lobster, shrimp and crab during the month we were there.

I could go on forever about that trip.  It was the best time of my life and I’m trying really hard to create the same loving and warm memories for my daughters.  I don’t have pictures…sorry.  Have a blessed weekend~