I have not been able to update my blog for a while. I swear that this time I really did try. I haven't had internet access. Because I will probably never catch up on my blog posts I will try to do a whurl wind posting bananza tonight to get me mostly caught up.
Note: For the two weeks I was on night shift I really didn't get very many pictures. It was dark. We walk till morning however so the few pictures I have are usually from morning or later in the day when we zombies are not sleeping.
June 4th - Wednesday
Here is Bess and Liz cookin dinner... the RV was moving. This was a little on the crazy side. Bess held the pan so it didn't fall. We try not to cook in motion anymore.
June 5th - Thursday
After walking all night Liz and I faced the possibility of having to skip a section of highway because of construction. We were unwilling to accept this passibility and we decided to follow some "side roads" which turned out to be gravel roads and even an ATV (4 wheeler) trail. We then had to scale a minor mountain (giant rock hill) to get back to the interstate. All so we can say that we did not skip a step. Yeee haaa.
Here is a bridge we encountered.
Here is the giant hill we climbed to get back to the interstate. If you look at the top of the second picture you can see the street sign at the top of the hill on I-90. I don't think the picture does the hill justice. It was steep and big. I have a video but haven't yet figured out how to post video to the blog. Perhaps in the future I will share the video of Liz climbing the rock hill...
And here is a view looking down the fill from the interstate above.
June 7th - Saturday
Here is a little parish that Nicole and I visited Saturday night for mass. It was very small.
Here is the crew hanging out in a host parish in Helena, MT cooking dinner.
June 8th - Sunday
A few of our people decided to join the headband club.
Bess is rocking the headband here...
And here we have Liz and Joe rockin the headbands.
June 9th - Monday (still on night crew)
Here's a picture of Joe rockin the guitar.
Lest you think we are not doing any actuall walking in these weeks here is one of my night shots. Joe and Erin are admiring each other's reflective vests. Joe is sporting the reflective Pro-Life vest.
I think I supprised Erin in this shot.
Then we make it to dawn. Here is a shot of Bess. You can see the dawn but it is still dark enough that we are sporting our reflective vests.
Here are a couple more a little later. Finally there is a picture of me. That is the only sad thing about being the one with the camera. I am in very few of my pictures.
June 10th - Tuesday (still on night shift)
A shot of Bess.
When we aren't walking in the dark or driving we are usually trying to sleep for little stints in the Van. Here are Nicole and Erin sleeping in the van between walks in the middle of the night on the shoulder of the road....
Later that day Erin plays the guitar.
Eating in the RV is fun!
OK.
This post took a long time to compose. I am much more caught up. This gets me pretty well through my second and third weeks (both on night shift). I am still a little behind but it is 12:30 AM and I have to get up and drive to church in the morning. Time for me to sleep. I will try to post more and get a little closer to caught up whenever I can. Who knows when that will be.
Good night and may God bless you all.
-Matthew Hoersch
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