Day 11 & 12

Last days on the road!

Leaving our friends was hard! I was definitely not excited to be headed home to the heat as I stood outside in the sun loading the car! Our journey was uneventful as we traveled to Waxhaw, North Carolina! I drove today. Per Einar has done most of the driving which I have been so thankful! We are a good team! I provide food and kid diversions; he drives!
We decided to stop in NC to see the JAARS base. We had dinner with a lovely couple who were surrogate grandparents for Per Einar growing up in PNG. Lois is from New Jersey & Alex is from Australia. They met & married in PNG almost 59 years ago! It was such a sweet thing meeting with them. We wished we had more time at the JAARS base!


We had one more missionary encounter at the base. Tim joined us as we ate breakfast before headed home. He's a boat captain & hopes to find his way back again to PNG soon! His wife is already over there working!


Reflections in this adventure:
Thankful for God's safety.
Loved spending time with my family! There were challenges as we worked through hunger & tiredness.
It was sweet to see the boys being nice to one another! It has opened my eyes to more of America!
Favorite parts:
Cora-Michigan summer weather! Gardens! Ark day!
Per-cherry picking in Michigan
Aidan-flying the kite he got from the ark gift shop
Micah- his answers still is "nothing." I will try to catch him at a less moody time ;)

As they say in Norway:
Borte bra hjemme best
Away is good. Home is best

Thanks for reading our adventure & sticking around until the end!


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  1. IngjerdJuly 3, 2017 at 11:09 PM

    We so much appreciated this blog! Thank you so much for all the work you put into it, so that we could take part too! With much love, mamma og pappa

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