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Announcing Our 2023 Great Western Pilgrimage

Announcing Our 2023 Great Western Pilgrimage

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Aug 24, 2022
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My, how times have changed.

During our first western road trip in 2017, I merely wanted to see our country before I died and the West before it burned down. There was no set plan other than to make it the Pacific Ocean. It was just Samwise and me on that first trip, and we were blessed by Bill, our Volkswagen Beetle convertible. We bounced around like a pinball ricocheting from this point to that, often never knowing where we’d spend the next night until we were halfway there. I was not well then, and we played the part of windshield tourists.

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