Day 5 started with coffee and some quick office work - mailing signed books, bracelets, and postcards all over America!

A little window cleaning before we set off for the day!

Let’s get out of these California hills!

Coffee/Lunch break on the side of the road. No reception all day till we pulled into Blythe!

On the road again! Co-pilot Jax is in place! Today was a lot of pulling over on the side of the road and waiting for Chuck because the road shoulders were much narrower. Safety first!

Apparently you just can't OUT GIVE God! We recognize that even in the mundane activities of going to the laundromat (named Madd Jax! You can't make this up!) that we are the hands and feet of Jesus. So we strike up conversations with the locals doing laundry: the young mom with the 3 year old boy, the middle aged man, the older lady with a pink T-shirt and matching pink bandana, the local gal working 2 jobs... and we give our extra coins and leftover minutes in the dryer to one of them, a hug and a smile to another, extra bills to another, and the least suspecting person of them all secretly hands me a folded up bill. I open my hand and see a $100 bill. My heart bursts into tears. One of God's names is Jehovah Jireh - the Lord who provides. Won't He do it over and over again? Sometimes we get this false notion that we need to be on stage to share Jesus, but we don't. It's in the everyday minutiae, the little spaces we often ignore, that the Holy Spirit invites us to share Jesus. In the hot & sweaty Madd Jax laundromat, in a little town named Blythe, on the edge of the California & Arizona border.

Howie is parked along the river that divides California and Arizona at a little RV Cove with full hookup. God just knew this girl needed a bit of AC and a hot shower. (My last Wim Hoff cold shower was well, cold. We are still figuring out what Howie can and can't do with solar power and all of that!)

Chuck stopped at the food store and restocked our water & drinks, lettuce& bananas! We were on our last water bottle!

We had Chinese for dinner and the portions were so huge we will have leftovers tomorrow and I'm not complaining- it was really tasty and full of good veggies! This beautiful view was a nice ending to Howie's trip across California. I'm happy to bid those mountains goodbye! I can't load any videos yet so pictures will have to do!

Tomorrow it’s Arizona!!

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