Today was another busy day with four scheduled school visits. Our first school this morning at 8am was Mesa Grande Academy in Calimesa, CA, then we had to make our way back to the Redlands/Loma Linda area for California Preparatory College (CPC) and Loma Linda Academy. CPC is a two-year private college that offers associate degrees in Business, Health Science, and General Studies, and aims to equip its students to either compete an associates degree and transfer ...

Today is the beginning of the Southern California Tour and our last week of touring the US. This week is probably going to be our most hectic tour because of the number of schools we have to visit each day, but with a bit of luck we'll get some good responses from it. This morning we kicked things off with a visit to La Sierra Academy, followed by Los Angeles Academy and then Orangewood Academy in the afternoon. A community fair at Loma Linda Academy finished th...

Saturday morning we headed to Van Nuys for Church. The people there were super friendly and made an effort to welcome us, so they just earned points in my books! In the evening, we headed down to Anaheim, CA for the third round of the AMA Supercross Series. It was held at Angel Stadium - Anaheim's home of baseball. As we'd missed out on getting along to an NFL, NBA, or Baseball game, we figured we better experience at least one sport in America, so this was it! ...

Last night we stayed in Victorville, CA, which is kind of on the southwestern edge of the Mojave Desert. We were looking forward to having a look out at Mojave, but the weather the past couple of days has been absolutely terrible, and far from ideal sight-seeing weather. Alot of the roads around the towns are like rivers - the drainage systems can't keep up! Still, we have been in no rush to get back to LA, because of the thunderstorms (as I'm sure you've heard/s...

The Grand Canyon, with its 2,5 Km, multicolored rock walls, craggy cliffs, and sandy slopes, is the most amazing site we have seen on the trip so far. Unfortunately Monday saw a weather front move in so our enjoyment of the magnificent views of the Canyon from yesterday was not to be repeated. On our return from the 'lookout' Jared was pretty on to it and discovered somewhere along the way we had picked up a nail in one of our tires. Fortunately this is a common ...