Thursday, June 23, 2005
GOING ON VACATION
We work today and tomorrow (Thursday and Friday). We will go to Countryside Sunday where I will preach. Then we are on vacation! We’ll use Monday to get ready to go. We’ll do things like stop the mail and the newspaper, do laundry, pack and get the car ready.
I have it in my head that I want to rent a car for the trip. The reason is to save money in the form of wear and tear on our car. The government allows $0.405 cents per mile for business miles reimbursement. Studies I have read say that it costs $0.615 cents per mile to replace a car. For the miles we are traveling it would cost a lot of money in car replacement costs to drive our car. I can rent a car for less than half that cost. Either way I have to buy gasoline. So why not buy gas for a rental car and make my car last longer. We’ll see how it all turns out.
We will leave Zionsville Tuesday morning and go to Lexington, Kentucky, where we will attend a church convention, the North American Christian Convention. It is a preaching-teaching convention. It is also a time of reunion with others we have known over the years and the Christian colleges will have receptions for alumni to get together.
The Convention is over Thursday at noon. Then we’ll head for the Atlanta, Georgia, area to visit one of our daughters. Our oldest daughter will fly to Atlanta to spend the weekend with us. She’ll ride back in the car with us. We’ll be back to work Wednesday, July 6th.
I hope to get some rest. Although I don’t know how much resting can be done when you spend all that time in a car and visiting with lots of people. I plan to take a book or two that I want to get read as well. I hope it will be a good time. We pray for safety in travel. And we hope our health is good during the trip.
The good news is I’ll have some access to email and the Internet while I am gone. I am happy I don’t have to have a long separation from my friends with whom I have regular email contact and I can read those web logs of my friends that I regularly access. But I probably won’t update this Journal until I get back. Hopefully I’ll have some interesting things about which to write.
Jim
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