Our Journey To South Dakota

First things first, we made it to Mom and Pop’s little piece of Heaven in South Dakota. We drove a little over 1500 miles in two days. However, the reunion was well worth it. We have missed them so much these past five weeks. One of the first things after our hugs was to give Pop's his birthday presents. The first present is a poem titled "A Letter From Heaven" and the other present is a cross made from old barbed wire.

Happy Birthday Pop's glad we're here with you to celebrate!!

Gina has worked in her garden non stop placing all of the rocks she found in Arizona while my dad and I worked on building a rack to attach to the back of our fifth wheel that would carry our new Polaris Sportsman 500 four wheeler. Here are a few pictures of Gina's rocks displayed and me working on the four wheeler rack. If you would like to see more click on this link and it will take you to our online photo album. June photo album

Getting it ready for painting


The finished product

We departed our house in Louisiana on Friday June 25th heading for Natchez Mississippi. Our nephew, Rickey Craig was getting married at Monmouth Plantation on Saturday night. The wedding was beautiful and we wish Rickey Craig and Lacey the very best as they begin their new life together as husband and wife.

Mr. & Mrs. Rickey Craig Noland

We left the campground in Vidalia, Louisiana around noon heading for South Dakota. We stopped just north of Oklahoma City at a truck stop due to a severe thunderstorm and the rain was so heavy that I could not see. We turned on the air conditioner and called it a night. We were back moving at five o’clock Monday morning. We stopped at the Wal-mart in Chadron, Nebraska around 9:30, which put us about 87 miles from Custer, South Dakota. We woke up Tuesday morning full of excitement. We called Mom & Pop’s to let them know we were on our way. When we were about 20 miles south of Custer we tried to call Mom but didn’t have service on our cell phone. We were not too concerned since I knew about where Mom & Pop’s place was located and Gina was so excited and consumed in seeing all of the buffaloes. As we were leaving Wind Cave National Park we saw Mom & Pop’s sitting on the side of the road ready to escort us into Custer.

Gina's first buffalo sighting


After 1,500 miles it was nice to have Mom & Pop's escorting us the final few miles

Please read Mike and Pat's blog since they did such a great job capturing our arrival and reunion. It is so awesome to finally be back together. God has so richly blessed us by placing them in our lives. As Pop's said, "its a relationship made in Heaven". In closing, all the Praise and Glory goes to Our Father for Mom & Pop's and our safe journey here.


Gina & I hope everyone has a pleasant and wonderful day, enjoying what our Father has so graciously blessed us with.