"Hit the road Jack..."

"... and don't you come back no more no more..." -- ohh, sorry, I didn't really you were listening in (reading in?). Anyway, today we arrived at Glenmary Farm, but I'll just talk about the travel experience for today and leave my actual experiences from today on the farm to a later post. So the CSC decided that everyone needed to leave from D2 (the parking lot pretty much the furthest possible spot from my dorm (Carroll)) at 6:30 this morning. My roommate Aaron was going to a different Appalachia site, and my friend Sarah was going with me to Glenmary, so after Aaron and I swung by Lyons to pick her up, we made the hike to D2 to start our trek. Told to arrive around 5 pm, we had a bunch of time to kill, so we headed to a pancake house for breakfast, and then got on the road. The trip was rather uneventful, although we did have a couple points of excitement. My personal favorite events were getting to know the other people in the car a bit better, as well as the fact that on our way there, for some reason, due to the way the roads were designed, we started out in Indiana, passed into Ohio, back to Indiana, to Kentucky, Ohio, Kentucky, Ohio, and then finally to Kentucky, state of our destination. I should note that part of the reason for this is that we had just passed into Kentucky when we decided to turn back around and have lunch in Cincinnati, so at least two of the state changes were intentional. Ten and a half hours after we departed from ND, we arrived at Glenmary Farm. A sign labelling the group of three buildings "The Farm" as well as their logo "where peace came and stayed" greeted us, as did two other schools that were also staying there that week.

Unfortunately, the bell for reflection calls, so I must end my spiel... don't worry though, I'll be back!