Quist World Tour

Doing what they do best: electronics of any form. A seven hour drive from Paris to Singen , Germany made up the most of our day. I can’t tell you much about the first hour or so, since I slept through that part of the drive. I can, however, tell you more about our rest area experiences. When I started this blog, I had no idea that it would turn into a serial harangue on public restrooms in Europe . After all, I’ve been to Europe before, I know the public bathrooms are not plentiful or free, and I’m over it. But driving gives it a whole new dimension. So when we started in France a few days earlier, I mentioned the porcelain pit toilet that we encountered. I said it was possibly worse than the automatic flushing toilet for those toilet-training children. I had no idea it could be even worse. On the way out of France , we stopped again. This time, we were looking for a picnic table and were happy to find one with a bathroom nearby. Little did we know. Again, the modern pit toil...

About 19.1 years ago, Brian and I went to Nigeria for a year, filling in first for the business manager of Hillcrest School for 6 months, then filling in for the business manager for the CRC's mission office there for 6 months. We absolutely loved spending that time there. We loved the staff at the school, but most of all we loved the kids at the school. Particularly we loved the kids at that school who were with our mission, because we got to know them best of all. The Schras, while we visit with them in Vienna, have been gracious listeners to all our old stories that are still vivid in our minds after all these years. Those memories were even more vivid after visiting the International Christian School of Vienna, where we got a better feel for the school where Jeffrey and Lisa are working. ICSV is a small but robust school, adding students every year, and those students hail from countries around the world. It has all the wonderful attributes of Hillcrest: a Christian education...