This week, I take off on another trip. This one is with my three siblings as we tour Civil War sites in the Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Virginia. We were in that area two years ago, but this year, we’ll spend most of our time around Richmond. We have our fingers crossed Congress will pass a continuing resolution so the National Park Service sites will be open for us to visit.
This is our third sibling trip, and all have been wonderful (see Our Sibling Trip to the Past and A Trip Back in Time). We’ve been lucky on the weather, mostly having warm sunny days to explore. The weather forecast for this year may not be as good. A lot of rain has fallen there and may not let up just because we’re there. The temperatures look cooler than normal, in the 70s, although with that kind of humidity, maybe it will feel a little warmer (I hope).
Before our trip, I’ll stop to see my parents for a couple of days. My youngest brother has offered to come get me at the airport in Dallas and drive me to their house. He and my sister-in-law are saints in all they do for our family. I’ll never be able to thank them enough. My dad has some typing for me to do that I’ll help with. Typing is one of my best things and hope to get a lot turned out for him. Then my brother and I will head back to Dallas on Saturday to begin this fun trip.
My sister plans out our trips, and she’s very good at it. What’s best is she picks out locally owned restaurants where we eat, and the food has always been really good. Only once did she mess up: she took us to a restaurant where we had to cook our own breakfast at a restaurant and then pay high dollars for the privilege to do so. We still kid her about that. She’s rented a van to travel in which we had last time. I love sitting in the back seat, reading, napping, watching the scenery go by, joining in the conversation. It’s a special bonding time for us, and I love our trips and my siblings more and more each time we travel together. Everyone should be so lucky to have great siblings like I do. I’m truly blessed by them.
Got to now, you that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. For that you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this or that. James 4:13-15