Countdown

Several months ago, I downloaded a widget (or is it a gadget) that puts a countdown timer (http://calebegg.com/countdown/) on my Google homepage. The timer counts down the number of days until an event. My timer, which said “140” when it was installed, now says “4.” That means 4 days until we leave for our annual Pismo Beach and Pepperdine getaway. This marks the 17^th year in a row that we’ve made the trip to the Pepperdine Bible lectures, and we look forward to it as much as we did the first time.

For the last 10 years or so, we’ve combined the lectureship trip with a 3 day mini-vacation at Pismo Beach on the Central Coast of California. Why Pismo Beach? Well, this picture from Wikipedia may have well been taken from the window of the hotel where we have stayed for several years! What a view! Of course, that hotel has gone up from $80 a night to $300… so we don’t stay there anymore. But Pismo Beach does have a Motel 6.

Randy and Better Tanner and Roger are joining us at the lectures this year, and we’re happy about that. Mike and Joann Guthrie have been out there a couple of times too. We wish that more of our family from Denbigh could make the trip to Malibu for the lectures. But not Pismo Beach… that’s just for us.