predeparture

[15_the_circle]

[OT from cottage renovations]

tomorrow the Grove's gulf coast relief expedition is due to depart and I'm taking the somewhat optimistic view that I'll be in adequate shape to take part.  progress on the leg healing front has been slow but cumulative so absent some reversal I'll still have a chance to help out. 

our destination is Vancleave, Mississippi:
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(here's the Google maps link)

four of the group members left yesterday via New Orleans as an advance party; the remainder of us will be flying to Gulfport tomorrow.  it will be rather late by the time we get to the camp site but the early arrivals will have covered the orientation briefing for us.  exactly what we'll be doing, and where, depends on how much was completed by last week's volunteers.  we won't know that until tomorrow night or maybe Tuesday morning. 

so far I'm not so much packing as staging things in preparation for it: clothing, bedding, tools and supplies.  it all helps to make the prospect a bit more real. 

I've never done anything like this: it's as much an opportunity to learn as it is to serve. 

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I hope all goes well and you are healed enough to participate. Be careful tho.