500 Saturdays: Nomad Diary

  Breakfast ala Darrell’s Pancakes at our cabin airbnb. Hartselle, Alabama Quinn listening to his Mama on our video call.  Our son Samuel at his house holding his cat Katrina. Saturday. 10. We are relaxing and getting busy at the same time! We are enjoying our freedom to shop and cook meals in our kitchen. Today we go over to Samuel’s house in Madison so Darrell can help him puzzle through a wiring issue. It’s an odd symptom of a dimmed light. They worked on looking at wires and switches for a couple hours. We take a break and go for lunch. We come back and they open another switch box and found a burned out wire. They fix it and we are all much happier that any fire hazard has been averted! I cook dinner for tomorrow at Eric and Erin’s. Sunday Lunch with this cutie pie Owen. Eric and Erin listening to Owen’s remarks! Sunday. 11. Darrell drops me off to go to Bible class with Owen and he drives to the congregation we attended before leaving in March. I enjoy the morning with O...

  Video call with toothy grinning Owen in Athens, Alabama! Video call with sweet Quinn in Portland, Maine. Saturday. 3. We arrived yesterday morning on Friday into the port of Fort Lauderdale after crossing the Atlantic Ocean on the Regal Princess. Today we woke up in our nice one bedroom apartment where we are staying until we leave on Monday morning. With our groceries, Darrell and I cook breakfast after our morning exercise routine. We spend a few hours in the morning reading and working. Darrell works on his weekly blog knowyourbible.org where he keeps up with people’s questions from Kenya who are studying along with him. Once we are ready we drive a couple of miles over to visit our friend, Janice and her grandson. She knew my mother since they were kids in this city! We visit and go to lunch together. We will see them again tomorrow at church. For dinner we mix up a fresh salad to enjoy. Today we decided on our drive to Alabama and found a stay for Monday night and one for Tu...

  Sunrise on the Atlantic Ocean on the Regal Princess. Captain of the Regal Princess talking to passengers about Princess. He is a 3rd generation employee who worked his way and education up from the bottom to being a captain. Supposedly he loves to cook and has a youtube cooking channel. Saturday. 26. Sea day. Fresh flower arrangement on the ship is spectacular! Another beautiful day on the Atlantic Ocean. Sunday. 27. A sea day. Sunday is our worship day that includes taking the Lord’s supper, singing praises and prayers to God and looking into the word of God for a time.  Monday. 28. A sea day. Everyday we do early morning exercises. Watch the sun rise if possible. Eat breakfast. Have a mid-morning coffee or tea. Attend a passenger led Bible study. Rest on the deck. Read, Attend lectures, games and shows. Eat lunch and dinner. Go to bed around 9-10pm. Another sea day. Mild temperature. Amazing clouds and sky. Personal balcony for relaxing. Tuesday. 29. This sea crossing has ...

  From our ship looking at Genoa in the early morning. One of several public murals through town. Genoa. Darrell at the dolphin tank at the Genoa Aquarium. Street vendors near the aquarium and looking at buildings going toward the old city. Genoa. Old door detail. Genoa.  Old door detail with Darrell in Genoa. Beautiful fountain and architecture in Genoa. Selfie with old gate. On the other side of this gate and a short block to the Christopher Columbus house. Genoa. Nice structure reconstructed here next to the rebuilt Columbus boyhood house. Genoa. Decorative tiled walkways next to old beautiful and ornate buildings. This pattern is a quilting pattern that I (and an Amish woman) stitched around the borders of the first quilt I made. (a Dresden Plate quilt I began making in 1983). Saturday. 19. We are in Genoa, Italy today. It is a half mile walk to the largest aquarium in Europe! We walk over to it and pay the entry, wait in line and then go inside and walk through all of the...