Visiting Jeff and Terri Robinette in Morgantown, WV

Terri and Sophia sitting at the overlook. The other children rock climbing at Cooper's Rock.
Rachel at Cooper's Rock. Rosalie and friend Joel climbing rocks at the lookout.
Jeff and Terri have eight children. Two, Tiffany and Katie are in college. Laurel and Grace are in high school. Rachel, Rosalie, and Grayson (the only boy) are the next younger children. Sophia is the youngest until December, when she will have another sister.

Here is Jeff piloting the boat on Cheat Lake. Grace and Laurel taking two year old Sophia rafting on the lake. They took a spill on one wave, but Sophia came up laughing. The child knows no fear.

Laurel's tennis tournament (below). She won a trophy.

Jeff and Grayson relaxing on the back patio. A front view of the Robinettes' home in Morgantown, West Virginia

Last Leg of the Journey to Virginia

Left: Emily Ackles Content with her youngest child. Right: Will and Nancy Ackles, who are enjoying retirement, living in North Carolina, enjoying grandchildren, and traveling the globe (in their spare time).

Left: Bernie and me with Bill Murray, Bernie's oldest friend, enjoying a meal at The Bear's Den in Petersburg, VA. Right: Our trips to the commissary at Ft. Lee always include hugs from the girls who bag our groceries. They remember us from year to year and even bring us homecooked Korean dishes.

Our campsite in Virginia, in the driveway of Keith and Frances Lee (Anne's sister and brother-in-law). We are snugged up next to the woods with a huge willow oak shading the other side. We even have our DirecTV functioning. All the comforts of home.

Keith got a hole in one on the golf course at Fort Lee. Here's the proud golfer with the plaque to prove it.

Columbia SC and Victory Ranch

Left: Lunch with Bruce Snowdeal at the Fort Jackson Golf Club. Right: Lunch at Victory Ranch with directors Ron and Pam Weinzapfel and Dave and Betty Meschke, who were visiting from Cadence while we were there. Dave was general director when we joined Cadence. The lady in blue is a lifelong friend of Pam.

Left: Posing in front of the Old Firehouse sign with Ron and Pam, Dave and Betty. Right: Dinner with Garland and Charlotte Ramsey. Garland was on the Victory Ranch Board back in the day!

Left: The Fortress coffeehouse at Ft. Jackson on Friday night. 310 soldiers were served that night. Live Christian band and a message. Right: Toni Zoeller, serving at Victory Ranch. Fred and Toni were directors at Victory Center before the Vietnam War. They took their family to Saigon to minister to the soldiers during the war!!

Left: No trip to Columbia, South Carolina is complete without dining at The Lizard's Thicket. Right: Lunch on Sunday at Victory Ranch.

Left: Saying goodbye to the soldiers by the lake at Victory Ranch. Right: Time with Erma Smith, longtime supporter of Victory Ranch.

Left: We had lunch with Ruby Tuggy Stephens and her son Cody (not pictured) on our way out of South Carolina. Right: Good times with Lindalee and Steve Cleveland and their kids, Ashlee and Kristopher.

Naval Station Mayport (Jacksonville, FL)

Pelican Roost is the Mayport Naval Station RV park at the port just up the St. Johns River from the Atlantic in Jacksonville. The next pictures show ships in the harbor; a ship at sea; a cargo ship coming into port, a submarine being towed out to sea.

Florida Friends

Pictures from top left to bottom: Steve and Wren (Hadley) Simpson's wonderful family in Pensacola, a street in The Villages (a golf cart community), John Miller driving us around the villages, Bernie, Joyce and John Miller, and Kim Rounds and me in Jacksonville.

Pensacola FL White Beaches and Bears

Famous white sands on the Gulf Coast, condos, birds and bears.

Blue Angels Practice and Museum in Pensacola, FL