January / February 2009 Road Trip Continued

Hi from Williams, California,

Sunday's plans of lunch with ex son-in-law Mike, going to a movie with Susan and then Linda and I going to a play all happened. We saw Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino. Good movie! We did see the play "Black Angels Over Tuskegee" Sunday evening. We both enjoyed it.

Monday we headed North from Van Nuys. We were going to spend the night in Fresno but their is a World Agriculture Expo going on right now in Tulare, California, 45 miles south of Fresno and rooms were at a premium. We went a little farther North and spent the night in Madera, California. A little more on the Expo. Expected to draw more than 100,000 visitors. 1,600 exhibits. 67 countries sending representatives. Over 2.6 million square feet of exhibition space.

Got up Tuesday and drove up into the hills to Calvin Crest, a Presbyterian Church Camp and Conference Center. I wanted to see the location and meet the Executive Director because I have been asked to teach a class there in October. Those of you familiar with what I am doing with water purification systems and mission trips know I attended a class in Mississippi, Clean Water University, about two years ago to learn a particular system that was developed by a Clean Water Ministry of the Presbyterian Church. Clean Water University has asked if I would consider becoming an instructor and teach at their new Western campus in California. I accepted the offer and wanted to stop by and see the place I will be teaching at is like. It is quite beautiful, just a few miles from Yosemite. Three hundred acres in the wilderness, 3,200 to 6,200 feet in elevation. It was cold and probably 6 to 12 inches of relatively fresh snow.

After we left we drove onto Sacramento. I had attempted to contact a couple of cousins to see if we could get together for an early dinner as we passed through. only heard back from my cousin Les Rossi and his wife Jackie. We met at a restaurant and had a nice 4 hour visit before we headed North to Williams.

Wednesdays stop is Medford, Oregon to visit with Linda's cousin.

The journey is almost over.

Time for bed.

Bob & Linda