Nauvoo to San Antonio and the trip Home

We were excited to get to Nauvoo, we checked into a hotel and went directly to the Visitors Center.


The first person we saw and talked to is Clark Hardy, Nola's 6th grade teacher from Raymond. Wow, small world. We had a wonderful time in Nauvoo visiting the sites and spending time with the Missionary coupples. Nauvoo seems like it would be a fabulous place to serve as a missionary coupple.




Austin met up with a kindred spirit at one of the historic buildings. This is Thomas Appiah from the Chicago area, very cool young man, they claim to have "Fro Power".














We got a kick out of these signs.
Funny or what?











This picture is taken from the bridge that crosses the Colorado River at a place called Lee's Ferry. Can you imagine the grit that our forefathers had to even consider taking a team of horses or oxen over this terrain? I consider myself to be somewhat hearty and resourcefull. The very thought of negotiating the canyon walls and then crossing the Colorado River here makes me want to cry out loud. How did they do it? Wow, this trip was humbling to consider the fortitude that was required to follow the Prophet and to build settlements across the western USA.


This was a fantastic opportunity to experience some of our early Mormon history and to see first hand some of the phyisical challenges that the early settlers had to endure. Impressive and humbling to say the least. Nola and Auz are troopers, we left San Antonio around 2 pm on Saturday and drove straight through non stop, getting home Monday am. Great trip.