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I have a trip planned for this weekend. I am supposed to depart Houston on Saturday at six in the morning for Montserrat. I may be leaving earlier, because of Hurricane Ike. It is heading for the Texas coast, seemingly a bit south of us, but the county next to the one in which I reside is under evacuation warning, some parts of the county it is mandatory. I may have to leave town tomorrow. I just hope my Monteserrat visit is not completely blown away by the storm.

Summer time is upon us and that meas a bit of traveling for me and some of the members of the congregation. My boys are now in Singapore, spending the summer with their aunt that lives there. I have already been to camp with 400 teens, 64 from our congregation! I taught 43 tenth graders in Bible Class. Next up is a trip to Dominica, for a mission campaign. We will spend two weeks in the village of Salisbury, on the Caribbean side of the island. It is a new place for our group and it should be exciting.

I have a friend who served in the Navy during World War II. His ship might portend some very interesting places, about which he is dreamed to visit again as a civilian. He recently became aware of the offerings of holiday hyper market.com on some cheap holidays to Crete, one of his ports of call when he was a young sailor. I saw him a couple of days ago and he told me that he had made arrangements to go next spring, and he is going to give this trip and his wife and himself as their Christmas presents this year.

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My daughter who lives in Singapore, was home for a month for business purposes.  She returned to Singapore on November 18.  This year we have been able to secure tickets for her to come home for Christmas and a family vacation.  She is due to return to the States on Christmas Eve.  That seems like an awfully quick turnaround to make a trip halfway around the world, but I guess she still young enough to do so.

Our daughter who is living in Singapore came to the States for a month, arriving on October 18. She had to return on November 19, just missing Thanksgiving Day. But she was very thankful for a good trip home, on a route she had not take in the past. She flew Continental from Houston to Tokyo, then to Singapore, just one stop! And she had three seats to herself on the long flight, so she was able to lie down and get some sleep.

I learned in school many years ago that St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest city in America, but I have never been there nor learned much more about the city over the years. But last summer one of the young ladies at our congregation married a young man from there and now they live in that city.

The young woman’s mother and dad are very dear friends of ours, so after their first visit to their daughter’s new home we heard more about St. Augustine. One of the main things we heard was about the event called First Friday Weekend Artwalk. Each month on the weekend of the first Friday of the month, the art galleries of the city sponsor an event designed to draw big crowds to the galleries.

The St. Augustine Artwalk features free self guided tours of all the galleries, allowing patrons to visit and view all sorts of art; photography, painting, sculpture and more. There are free sightseeing tours on the trains and the trolleys, FREE PARKING, and many of the shops have free wine and cheese tasting opportunities.

I have no doubt that our friends will go often to see their daughter and son in law, and that they will just happen to arrange in on the weekends of first Friday!

On our cruise to Cancun for our fortieth anniversary, my wife and I made a shore visit to the Mayan ruins at Tulum. It was a very informative trip, we heard a lot of history or the region and some of the advancements the Mayans gave to civilization. Their archtecture was exquisite, and so was the setting of the city. It was very pleasant part of the trip. I hope you like this little video clip to give you a taste of the place.

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When my middle daughter was a junior in high school, she was invited by the local Rotary club to represent them in a cultural exchange program by taking a tour of Malaysia and Singapore for six weeks. It was a life-changing educational experience for her.

Now that my oldest grandson is in high school, and have been looking into the possibility of presenting him with one of the educational student tours that might provide the same sort of eye opening opportunity for him. There are tours in the United States available of course, but we would like to make this an international experience for him.

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Our daughter who lives in Sinagapore made a trip home this week. She took the Continental flight that brought her all the way from Tokyo to Houston rather than stopping in L.A., Minneapolis, or San Francisco. The route made the overall trip a little shorter than the other routes. But the thing she liked best was that she had wider seats and fewer plane changes than the Asian carriers and better services than on NWA.