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You have probably noticed a lack of personal reflections in most of my blog posts. I am reserving those reflections for my book and following the end of my journey, when I can more properly digest, assemble and compile them. Wednesday, September 10: We visited Washington Street UMC on our way out of Alexandria. Someone…
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At this point, we consider ourselves “seasoned travelers.” I am considering beginning a side-bar series called “Living on the Road” – we’ll see. We continue with Asbury’s northern leg of his circuit. I am writing this from our hotel room in Alexandria. When we leave here after breakfast, we’ll be headed for a 2-night stay…
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The end of our first week “on the circuit” has brought on a rather dramatic change in terrain for us. We traversed Asbury’s coastal route over flat, straight roads – certainly easy on gas mileage, as one follower noted. Turning westward from Charleston, SC, the roads became gentle rolling, then gentle curves, then sharper curves,…
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We are nearly at the end of our first week of following Asbury’s circuit of 1791. For those of you who like to see statistics: Thursday, September 4: On March 4, 1791, Asbury records this in his journal: Our horses are much hurt by long rides, having travelled one hundred miles in two days. In…
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If you are from my “home turf” of central Virginia, you are well accustomed to the mountains, hills, rolling landscape and roads, and the many curves of our rural roads. You would feel out of place traveling where JoAnne and I have been the past couple of days. At times, we traveled for a mile…
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My first post while “on the road.” Saturday, we packed the car, took one last look around the house, double checked our checklists one more time and left Ruckersville. As I noted in my previous post, we stopped off in Richmond and then headed for the Jamestown Ferry. Our passage on the Surry was without…
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Sleepless in Ruckersville… 5 a.m. on a Tuesday morning. When I first started writing this post, it began: “Just under 4 weeks now, before the beginning of our shadowing Francis Asbury’s circuit of 1791. My checklist of tasks to complete before our departure is getting longer and longer (it is growing faster than the pace…
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I share my time between two homes, the parsonage and our home in Greene County. Mostly, I am at the parsonage these days. It is located in a beautiful rural, country setting near Batesville. I joke with folks in saying the world really is flat, and that our parsonage is right on the edge… if…
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Those who know me, know that I ascribe to a connections theology. I stopped using the word “coincidence” in my vocabulary many years ago. Rather than attributing chance happenings to some mysterious juju, I believe that God creates connections in our life’s journey. My metaphor for these connections would be the dots on a “connect…
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July 16, 2025: The death was not unexpected, nonetheless it hurt. He had been an almost constant companion in my automobile since January… literally, a passenger in the car with me. He had traveled with JoAnne and me on ice cream runs, on our trips to visit family in Richmond, Annual Conference and even our…
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