I couldn't decide whether or not to post about our "homeless, vagabonding" adventures because we left the Bounder behind in Jamesville after our second week of roaming around. But, I decided to go ahead and keep you guys up to date about our summer even if we aren't in the Bounder because our travels are leading up to our more permanent life in our RV, coming up in August.
Our third week, July 9th through July 15th, was spent in Richmond, Virginia with Dave's sister and her boyfriend. We had a pretty awesome week and did a bunch of things. We stayed with Landon, the boyfriend of Dave's sister, Jo. His living quarters are unique this summer as well. He is living in the basement of some people he knows from the church he is doing his internship with this summer. Check this church out, they're pretty awesome and pretty new - Area 10 - !! Landon was kind enough to let us have his bed for the week while he slept on the fold out couch.
Moving right along! Dave and I met a ton of people during our week in Richmond and they were all pretty awesome and most of them were very busy people a lot of the time. Monday Dave and I went to the small group, or bible study Landon helps lead and got to be a part of some awesome discussion and be there for a baptism! It's always awesome to be a part of the beginning of a new chapter in someone's life.
Tuesday was spent being touristy and walking around Cary town with Jo and her roommate after breakfast. Later, riding with Jo to work resulted in our buying a hanging fruit basket for the Bounder! We are always trying to find new ways to conserve space in there. Tuesday was quite easy going and lovely.
The excitement began to build Wednesday as we woke up in anticipation of our camping trip the next day! Dave, Landon, Jo and myself planned on going up to Woodstock, Virginia to camp for 2 nights and do a little hiking, take in the mountains and let Dave hang glide off of said mountain. Unfortunately, Jo woke up feeling bad this Wednesday morning and later found out that she had strep. Dave and I kept our distance for the 48 hours of her being potentially contagious and prayed she would feel up to camping Friday. We didn't want to go without her because we wanted her to be a part of the fun. Thankfully she was feeling up to the challenge on Friday and we trekked up to Woodstock.
Though, I skipped Thursday, it was a fun day. Dave, Landon and I went to Kings Dominion, so no complaints here. I can ride roller coasters until I black out. Seriously. And even then, I'd keep going. Anyway, Friday came and we put our camping faces on. We went up to the camp site first thing to set up our stuff because we thought it might rain. Even though the rain was looming, we headed up to the mountain where Dave would launch his hang glider and we would all hope for the best. Once you step off the side of a mountain, there's no coming back, really. Thankfully he flew right over those sharp, deathly trees of doom and glided safely to the ground. He flew for about seven minutes, which was good enough for him considering the not so perfect conditions and we headed back to the site to continue camping!
We got back Saturday just in time for Dave and Landon to practice for the Sunday music at church while Jo and I vegged out in front of her tv. Sunday morning came and went, we ate lunch at a Thai place and packed up just like a normal Sunday these days.
Uneventfully, we got from Richmond, Virginia to Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. We did leave our friends in Richmond with some thunderstorms, but we didn't see any of it. We had a great time and I probably left out a bunch of really awesome things, but I'm very thankful if you read this far. If this post was full of more awesome, you'd be reading for days and I don't think that's what anyone wants to do.
The Outer Banks is next on the agenda. We'll be staying in a regular house, the kind without wheels, but we'll keep you posted nonetheless.
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