Leg #1: Phoenix >> Chicago >> Pittsburgh >> Steubenville>
Leg #2: Steubenville >> Pittsburgh >> Charlotte >> Phoenix >> San Diego
Leg #3: San Diego >> almost Huntsville then Knoxville >> Atlanta >> Tiger
Leg #4: Tiger >> Atlanta >> Fort Meyers >> Ave Maria
Leg #5: Ave Maria >> Fort Meyers >> Atlanta, Atlanta, Atlanta >> Phoenix

I am so happy to finally be at Covecrest. It has been a very long and frustrating day of traveling.

To start things off, Candyce and I barely made it on our flight this morning in San Diego. I’ve never seen an airport that crowded at five in the morning. We circled Atlanta for about an hour before our captain announced that there were severe thunderstorms over the Atlanta airport and we needed to fly to Huntsville, Alabama, to refuel.

Before we got to Huntsville, the airport had filled up with diverted planes, so we headed north to Knoxville, Tennessee. We then sat in the plane on the tarmac for another two hours before we were able to get back in the air and get to Atlanta. Once we got there, we had to wait another half hour before we could get out of the plane. Our quick 3 1/2-hour cross-continent flight turned into a 7-hr escapade around the South.

Our two-hour drive from the airport to camp was beautiful. I love it up here. It’s good to see lightning bugs again. I am looking forward to the campers arriving tomorrow. It’s going to be an exciting week.