This morning we made our way along to Camelback SDA Church, which is located just south of Echo Canyon Park (Phoenix Valley) - and home to Camelback Mountain. It became pretty clear as we drove near how Camelback Mountain got its name...the shape resembles the hump and head of a kneeling camel! The Church put on a potluck lunch following the service, but we had met up with Allison Atkin (PUC recruiter) afterwards and she invited us to her home for lunch. It's ha...

There's not much to write about Thursday, because we spent most of the day driving from Fort Stockton, TX to Phoenix, AZ. Something cool while travelling through West Texas though, was the 80mph (130kph) speed limit, which made the trip a little quicker. The roads are straight and it's dual lane each way, so it's not even reckless! We had to stop at the odd border patrol checkpoint along the way too as we were pretty close to the Mexican border. We didn't have a...

Like I mentioned yesterday, doing the North-South drive through Texas was great. We drove the Panhandle on Friday, and from McAllen, TX today we drove the entire Western Region of Texas through to Fort Stockton, so although we have done very little proper sight-seeing of Texas, we've certainly been able to see plenty of the state! Before all that though, we had a school visit at South Texas Academy in McAllen. They hosted Valley Grande Academy as well, so we met...

We had two schools on the menu today: Burton Adventist Academy, Arlington, and Chisholm Trail Academy, Keene. Two great schools, Chisholm Trail is right near Southwestern University and Burton is only a fairly new school, so it's real nice. It's been good catching up with the other recruiters too. Just like old times! Anyway, our next school is way down in South Texas and is a good 9 hr trip from Keene, so we didn't have alot of time to sight-see today. Erin, fr...

Last night we stayed in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It wasn't a big drive from OKC, so it gave us a chance to catch up on some washing and get things in check for the fair this morning. The first school to kick off our Southwest Tour was Ozark Adventist Academy in Gentry, AR (about an hour from Fayetteville). It's still fairly cool up this way, with plenty of snow about, so very pretty, but I'm keen to head south! The school visit went well and the kids were all sup...