Greetings all... I trust this letter finds you all abounding in God's grace and mercy. This is our travel letter. Yes, we got to go somewhere other than work! I, Bob, worked out a 6-month contract I had with Anastasia Mosquito control and saw unemployment fast coming into my world. What were we to do? No job. One income (Jackie has her kids, which are no longer throwing things at her!) and no new job on the horizon. The only thing we could think of was to go on a vacation. I haven't seen my brother in about 5 years or so and he lives in North Carolina and it's Fall and all the leaves are changing color so what else could we do but go? Savannah, GA is kind of on the way and I have a Priest friend, Fr James, who has been an email friend for the last couple of years that we've not met face to face so the first phase was to go there and see him and visit his church. What a blessing that was. Fr James was a Monk and is now a Priest and his church service was awesome. I don't think any of you on this mailing list have ever been inside an Orthodox church, but the beauty of one is spectacular. The liturgy, which is sang back and forth and rich and overflowing with the Spirit of God, goes for about an hour and ends in partaking of the Eucharist (communion), receiving Christ into our mortal bodies. Thus filled to overflowing, we had lunch afterwards and met some new friends and spent some time with Fr James.
What a true blessing our trip began on. Then we drove over to my brother's in Franklin, North Carolina. Our '96 Buick, which was given to us by Leah, our daughter, ran beautifully all the way and got about 33 miles per gallon. 
Over there on the right are the mountain peaks around Blowing Rock and the myriad of colors provided by God.
some land with his house and 2 cottages he rents by the week and he had one ready for us.
The back balcony overlooked his cow pasture and the mountains surrounded it. Having a quiet time out on the porch, though very cold, was amazing. The sun would come up and just light up all the trees 
There's our cottage now, nestled amongst the trees and overlooking the cow pasture and mountains. They are so cheap to rent. Wanna go?
was too much to describe in words. It was just too amazing for us who live in FL and only see green and the ocean's murky brown that we have here in Saint Augustine. Another bonus was to 411.com some old friends we hadn't seen in years, Ty and Malissa Bryson. They live in Blowing Rock so we drove over there (4 hours) to visit them. There's just nothing like the love of old friends being applied to your lives--maybe we could say it's like the "balm in Gilead." God has continued to bless them and their children were great.
That's Ty and Malissa.
We hadn't seen them for about 14 years or so. We spent the night and since I was now unemployed, we spent the extra money needed to not sleep in a dive and stayed in a very nice motor lodge kind of place that had been renovated and made very inviting. Jackie deserves such things for living with me these 36 years (our anniversary is November 22nd if you want to congratulate, or send condolences to her). It was still only about $70 so we were blessed.
From there it was back to my brother's and we spent another 3 days there and then 
Surf where you can....
vacation was over. 10 hours of driving south found us back in St. Augustine and we were grateful to Father in heaven for such a marvelous and rich time. God is so good to us.
PRAYER BUSINESS I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that Janell was having heart problems and asked for prayer. She got past that and seemed like she was back to normal, but yesterday her husband, Dale, emailed that she was bleeding internally
Out in the pasture with the cows
and in the hospital again. The doctors were able to stop the bleeding after 10 pints of blood has gone through her but please pray for this dear lady. She is as close to us as our own kids and it saddens us so much to see her constantly getting into these physical challenges.
I could also use a job. I've spent the last few days driving around town, going to employment offices and filling out many applications, but not much is happening. 
Us being happy together
Actually, nothing is happening! It doesn't matter to me what I do so anything will be fine you pray for.
Penny continues to fight the cancer in her body.
Kenny still needs a new liver.
We all need to see Christ magnified in our lives and His precious named taken to all the nations and people who have not yet had the privilege of knowing Him. Blessings to you all....
Through the trees and the sky all the way to the sun
Jackie even did some hiking on her new knee. It hurt, but fun often does!
My brother and his wife, Ann. She can sure cook!