Getting on Our Way

Here's the bus waiting for us outside Christ Church UMC in Charleston. We pulled out about 10:oo on the morning of Wednesday, December 27, 2006. Lyndsey was there and I got to meet my roommate, Jan Blount, for the first time. Rev. Barry Moll was the last one on the bus at 9:59. ;-) We headed north on I-79 to pick up passengers at Flatwoods at a little after 11:00 and Weston at noon. We made a pit stop at Fairmont about 12:45 and picked up one more passenger. We had some great conversations with the "veterans" telling us what to expect during the next two weeks. About 1:15 we stopped at the Ramada Inn in Morgantown for our last W.Va. passengers, then on to Annandale, Virginia. The lovely folks from St. Matthews United Methodist Church in Annandale put us up for the night. Jan and I stayed with the Associate Pastor and her family; they fed us a wonderful dinner and we went to bed as soon as possible so we could get up at 5:00 the next morning.