Howdy all. I'm currently staying at a beach house being rented by our 20-some-odd person staff team. We're here this week planning for the arrival of our students to the project, going over the procedures, policies, areas of responsibility (outreach, community, prayer, etc...). Lots of business to take care of, and the meetings can be monotonous. There's a lot of personal planning stacking up to (for our small "action groups" of 5 guys, areas of responsibility, planning orientation week) that there's really not much time to do outside our official schedule. Especially as I start feeling tired at about 9:00 as it feels like 11:00.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Getting Oriented or Orientation
I'll give some more details later, but this is what I'm doing. I went out to dinner tonight with some of the staff team at a cool Italian restaurant in Santa Cruz. I'm getting to know the team and we've got lots of interesting people working together.
Tomorrow some students will arrive early to the project (11 I think) and we'll begin the process, which will take the next 3 days or so, of restoring the Peter Pan Motel, where our students will live for the summer. I'll be living there as well with 5 students.
In any case, more details later.
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Friday, May 22, 2009
Some pictures from the Grand Canyon. This is from a lookout point at the top. Since it was cloudy the pictures didn't come out that great, but oh well. Pictures would probably never do the canyon justice in any case.
Another one from a different lookout point at the top.
I believe this is taken from Plateau Point, where we hiked 6 miles in to.

Another from Plateau Point.
And probably my favorite picture from just browsing them:
You see that line of trees down there? We hiked all the way down from where this picture was taken to the end of that road that goes beyond those trees, which is Plateau Point, to give you some sense of scale. I'll leave you with a video from the Point.
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Ye Olde Grand Canyon
Not really sure why it's "ye olde" but it is old that's for sure. Yesterday we snagged a National Park pass from the Foltz's and drove up to Grand Canyon after seeing the town in Williams, AZ on Route 66 that they modeled the movie "Cars" on.
We first looked out at two different lookout points. I think I have gotten more and more afraid of heights as I have gotten older. The first impression of the GC was simply "wow".
After looking out for awhile, we drove a bit farther to the trail lodges and began our day hike. I had heard from a friend that had taken the Bright Angel trail, so we decided to do that. Originally we were aiming to go to the 3-mile house and back, but we ended up going all the way out to Plateau Point (about 6 miles in). The point was definitely worth it. We set a brisk pace on the way back, but slowed way down for the last 3 miles, as Collin was a little sick.
The last 3 miles felt like we were reenacting Frodo's ascension of Mt. Doom. Needless to say, we were pleased to be finished and promptly went to a steakhouse.
Today we'll journey to Bakersfield, CA and stay in a fairly nice hotel there, and then make the trip up CA-1 to Santa Cruz.
Pictures to follow
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Starting Out
Well, I am about to begin the long drive out to Santa Cruz. Here is the travel plan:
May 19: Drive from Alma to Oklahoma City to stay at Russell's and get Collin.
May 20: Long day of driving to Flagstaff, AZ
May 21: Drive a short ways north to the Grand Canyon, spend the day exploring.
May 22: Drive to Bakersfield, CA
May 23: Drive up CA-1 along the Pacific to Santa Cruz
I think I am more excited about this trip than I have been in a long time.
The Google Maps route is here:
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