The Big Walk

Well, camp is a little more than half over, and I’ve got a lot of catching up to do. I did indeed meet up with Tim Knickerbocker and his brother Pierre (Peter) at the station in Boussens. Two other guys, Stephen and Jeremy, from up near Normandy arrived shortly after and we piled into a van for the 20-some minute ride to the camp. Stephen is actually from South Carolina but spent the summer up in Rouen working with a missionary. Jeremy is a young sports-jock type of guy from Rouen with a clear zeal for the Lord. The ride in to the camp gave me a preview of the countryside in this part of France. I was quite impressed, finding it even more beautiful than Provence. The area clearly gets a bit more rain, and everything is more verdant. In some ways it reminds me of (more…)