We haven’t lost our mind, but we have lost our hair!  Why did we do it? Because!

and yes, apparently we can still meet new friends despite our shaved heads!  Good people and brothers and sisters in Christ we met in Vero Beach.

One of our coolest rv spots – Beverly Beach (north of Daytona Beach) on the ocean.  A bit too pricey for us to stay long, but we enjoyed it while we could.  Good picture of our home on wheels

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Hope and Chuck Jr at Daytona Kids Zone.  Showing of good batting swings!

Having fun at Daytona Raceway – during the qualifying races for the Daytona 500.  We even were able to write the “Wandering Webers – Jesus Journey” on the finish line.

Two for one, witnessed an actual missile launch from Kennedy Space Center from our seats at Daytona.  White dot in the sky!

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“Fountain of Youth” – St. Augustine, Fla

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OLD style store and warehouse tour in St. Augustine – one of Americas oldest European settlements!

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Punishment, I mean, discipline training, for our children on the journey.  May seem harsh to some, but it seems to help them focus a bit better!

One of our favorite forts and certainly oldest.  Oldest masonry fort in US History.  The Castillo de San Marcos.  Survived hundreds of years of battles, never being overrun. From Spanish protecting against British, to British protecting against Patriots in Revolutionary War, to Confederates using in Civil War, to USA using a prison in Indian Wars.

Said to be oldest Catholic Parish in USA, we are non-denominational Christian, but at the same time understand the history and role the Church has had in the world and America and also in the spreading of the good news of Jesus Christ.

Sign for Kingsley Plantation.  Learned much about the slave system in Florida and was able to contrast to what we have learned in other states.  Learned also about the task system used here – where instead of working by hours – a slave was given a task for the day and once done (if done and done well), his or her time was their own.  Meaning they were measured by their actual productivity and not simply by hours put in.  Explained to children that to this day, there are some work environments that could use such a system (being paid for productivity vs. hours)!  🙂

At Science and History Museum in Savannah, Ga.  It appears that alligator and turtles do get along!

Volunteering at Senior Center, for a few hours organizing beads to help out director.  Saved director time to do much more important things.

First African church in North America.  Savannah, Ga.  These pews that Grace is sitting on are over two hundred years old.  Also, right below us is a tunnel for the Underground Railroad.  They had holes in the floor board to breathe.  The church was built completely by slaves primarily at night – AFTER working the fields all day.

We loved this quote found on the oldest African American church – “Christ Jesus is a life, not a religion.”  Gia noticed it.  It is also a great life ANYBODY can have.  Only need to accept God’s gift of forgiveness and desire to follow Him!

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We are learning so much – together.  Still at the church.

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Okay, Kids made me…Haven’t heard God’s call for this to be my business or role after our journey.  🙂

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Very nice booth we shared and round table.  Had both sides.  On the Savannah Riverwalk.

The speed of the cars going by at almost 200mph is exhilarating.  We hope you enjoy.

It’s is I, Grace Weber, turn to write.  This is about what we did February 15- February 28. The first place we went to is called Vero Beach. The campground we stayed at is called Sunshine R.V Resort.  Almost every morning Mommy and FaithJean jogged at least one mile and Daddy went one day as well. The next day, which was Saturday, February 15, 2014, Daddy and Chuck were going to shave their heads, and they looked different after in a good way. Us girls, we just hung out in the rv park, we walked to McDonalds since it was just next door and got some food, we ate at the pool and and went swimming. The next day was Sunday, we went to King’s Baptist Church on Sunday. After church service was over we met some really nice people who were really interested in our trip, we told them our website address, so they could see what we were doing.  After that, I don’t know if anybody else told you, but we usually get ice-cream after church, family tradition you know.  After church we also did some more volunteering of our own, we call it beautify America, we picked up trash and cleaned up what God created. We felt good after we did it. Later on that day we went to a ice-cream social, the ice-cream was really good, everybody liked it.

The next day we celebrated Chuck Jr.’s B- Day present, where he gets to do what he wants to do on his own day. Everybody was really excited. First we went to the beach and played at the park. Next we went to McDonalds for lunch then we went home ate our lunch an watched Man vs. Cheetah, a show Chuck wanted to see. Then we went roller skating and we actually saw some of the nice people who we met at church.  The place was playing Christian Music and they were playing some fun games.

The next day we went to some museums called the Treasure Coast and a Sea Turtle place. The Treasure Coast Museum is about these people who were trying to deliver the Spanish Queens jewels, a crown, and a necklace, a dowry all of which risked people’s lives and they never got it to her because they had a dramatic crash. People went searching for it and found millions of gold and silver coins, cannons from the ship, necklaces, and many more things. They had a deck and everyone just wanted to go out and look for treasure. FaithJean did and got us each a shell, but earlier when we were trying to take picture, a lady put her glasses down and after she took the pic the wind blew them down.  Hope climbed over the railing to go get them  for her in the unknown. The next place we went to was the Sea Turtle place. We learned about Loggerhead Sea Turtles and Green Turtles. The Green Turtle takes a hour and a half longer to lay her egss than the Loggerhead Turtle does.

The next day we went to Navy Seal Museum. It was really cool and amazing. They had to go through months of training and it was really hard. They told us what they would wear, what ships they used, and many more stuff too.

Chuck liked the rv park here because it was easy to walk Angel and because of the ice-cream social.  Mommy liked the park after she got to walk around it and meeting some nice people. Daddy met up with a guy one of the days and shared about Faith.

After Vero Beach we went to Beverly Beach. The campground was called Beverly Beach Camptown. We got our own beach front property, it was really pretty. It was the most expensive rv park. It was very pretty and nice to hear the ocean at night and we had really good weather. The next day we just hung out and did our math. We also barbecued that night, we hadn’t done that in awhile, but earlier we went down to the beach and Daddy, Chuck, and I went in the really cold water, but once you were in the water you were fine.

The next day we went to the NASCAR Budweiser Duals at Daytona International Raceway. It was really cool and loud. We got to sign the finish line, we wrote our names and put Jesus Journey on it. The turns are really steep.  Everybody and I really liked it  It was awesome and amazing and now we are more interested in racing.  It was a good experience for everyone. It was exciting to see us get excited about it. On the last dual, the second one, before the race we saw a missile launch from Kennedy Space Center. It brought back memories for Daddy when he was a boy at Vandenberg Air Force Base, while he was growing up.  His dad had leadership of missile sites. The next day we also just hung out and barbecued, we also did our Wednesday night church, the message this time was about forgiveness. The next day we were sad to leave the rv park and the beautiful ocean.

The next campground we stayed at is called Pecan Park in North Jacksonville, that day was Saturday. We went to this thing called a Flea Market, it is where people will sell things.  For show, they also had some gators in a lake, there were three of them  We tried to feed them what they sold, but they didn’t want it so the fish ate it.

The next day was Sunday.  We went to North Jacksonville Baptist Church, it was really nice and big. That day we hung out, rested, watched some sports, what we might normally do on a Sunday.

The next day we went to the oldest populated city in the United States, St. Augustine.  We went to the Fountain of Youth. It is about these people who thought they would become younger by drinking from the water, but that is not true, obviously. We got to try the water.  Daddy wasn’t really impressed with that part and it tasted like normal water. We learned some about the Timucuan Indians. They were the first people to be there in St. Augustine. They made these huts, and there would always be a fire burning in them so when somebody needed to use it it would be ready. The next place we went to was a old type store called the General Store. They acted like we went back in time. The prices were really cheap for us, but back then they were expensive.  Next we went to this fort called Castillo de San Marcos. It was probably the best fort we have been to. The fort could basically withstand anything. It went through the Spanish, then the British, then the Spanish again and then the Americans. They used it for the American Revolutionary War and the Civil War. Construction started in 1672 and it still stands today  While Daddy, Chuck Jr., and I stayed and looked at the fort, Mommy, Hope, and FaithJean went to the Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse in the United States. Everybody thought that that it was a very cool fort.  Next we went went to the Church for the oldest Catholic Parish in the United States.

The next day we just hung out and did our school work, but the day after that was the day that we left that rv oark and went to Camp Lake Jasper in Savannah, Georgia. The first thing we did was we did there was a Gymnastics class.  It was really fun, we learned some new things in one day. Next we got ice-cream, went to this 90 minute seminar about Coral resorts that was offered to us so we could get $75 and 2 free nights and 3 days at a resort. Next we got dinner and went home!

The next day we went to a very old plantation called Kinglsley Plantation. The owners last name was Kinglsley and he had a way to manage the work of the slaves, called tasks.  Like one thing would be if you were done with your task you could do whatever you wanted. We got to see the original slave quarters, they were much nicer than the other plantations we have seen in my opinion, but either way, they still weren’t free men and women.  However, I thought that one was the best plantation.

The next day we went to this Museum called Museum of Science and History. We learned about so many things. One of them was a exhibit about the history of Florida and it basically tied up everything we had learned the past few weeks in history. We also went to a animal show where we got to touch a very big black, soft, and non-venomous snake, and when he peed on the floor I volunteered to watch him. We also watched a video in a planetarium about the Earth. We also went to another show about Science. The guy was really nice, Hope and Chuck got to help him, it was cool. We asked him about lightning and he showed us something really cool about it.  It was that lightning will flow through to whatever is closest to the ground, like our stabilizers on our rv, the lightning will strike that and do nothing to anything inside the rv.  The guy that helped us, his name was Daniel.

The next day we went to this Elderly Home and help the main lady separate out tons of beads.  After that we went on a tour of the First African Baptist Church. We learned about one of the Underground Railroads that the slaves would travel under and that was under the Church. They had a design of holes in the ground so the escaping slaves could breath. It was a design of a diamond and a cross inside it, they did a design because if anyone asks they would just say it was a design on the floor for Africans.

That is the end of my writing for now.  I hope you enjoyed it.  Thank you.

Grace Weber 🙂