09 November 2010

evidence we're in South Dakota

Anyone here, please feel free to read this, but this post is really for my Ichtus colleagues. Here's a list of experiences so far that tell you we're now in South Dakota.
1) I met with a supporter...in his combine.


(This is not the actual combine in which I rode, but it is the same model.)

2) My son won a turkey and my daughter won a pig in a small town raffle (mmmm, bacon).
3) I was served roast buffalo.


(not actual buffalo I consumed)

4) I locked myself out of the van I'm driving and the mechanic at the local repair shop helped me by attaching a wire to a broom handle and successfully reaching through an open side window and pulling the door latch. I locked it because I'm now from a city. And the guy who loaned me the van didn't give me the key for the door locks because he's not.
5) This is the van I'm driving.


(Yes, this is the actual van I'm driving)

6) People don't lock their houses. One family I stayed with don't even have a key to the farm house they rent.
7)
I watched the sunrise from my bedroom window, without getting out of bed.
8) I spoke about Ichtus at 3 churches this weekend...all of them were in the countryside.
9) I had a couple of moments while driving in which I could see neither, building, nor auto (other than mine), nor person.
10) Tumbleweeds blew across the road in front of me as I drove.

(This is not actually one of the tumbleweeds I saw, they were moving pretty fast.)
11) I drove through a Native American Reservation.
12) I have frieten withdrawal (and I'm very sick).

Carry on without me my good colleagues. And I'll keep telling folks about you.