Travelin Man

More on PYT 2007 later. Too much to tell to get in and i'll soon forget my Sunday travels.

i arrived at Indianapolis International after an hour bus ride with my Canadian small group leader
from 6 years ago. i spent about an hour chatting with a man who turned out to be the CPM liason for my suitemate Tom. i boarded a plane and ended up next to a Russian Orthodox priest and his wife and we had an amazing conversation for a few hours about faith and church and youth and places and travel.

There were about a dozen PYTers on the plane with us and when we arrived in Detroit, the student behind us knew Father Greggory from Perdue and so we got to talking and realized she was headed to Richmond too for her internship with horsies. We went to find a place to eat before our next flight and when we got to a place met a man from Nigeria, whom we both invited to join us for dinner. He told us he worked for Total Oil out of France and sold cars on the side. When he learned i was studying to be a pastor he totally lit up and told us he's also a full-time pastor of a church back home in Nigeria. So the three of us delved into Coney Island food, Milkshakes, and faith sharing. It was beautiful. He insisted on paying for our dinners and we talked for nearly 2 hours. Then we went our separate ways.

On the next flight i met 2 folks who work for the YMCA here in Richmond, a young couple and a man named Jeff Tuttle (yes, like MASH) who is a Country music singer out of Nashville. All in all, an exciting trip.