big bone lick – RVing With a Purpose

Sunday, May 11, 2025

Tuesday, May 6 was the official beginning of our Spring Road Trip 2025. If things go as planned, this will truly be a road trip. There will be lots of driving, lots of miles covered and not as much moseying along at a casual pace as our recent vacations. Tuesday, we drove to Asheville, NC to visit with the volunteer coordinator for the NOMADS disaster rebuilding project we will be leading in the fall. We met with Hannah at the church that will be providing our parking sites. The church is building camping sites on their property for people impacted by Hurricane Helene and will be including six sites for NOMADS to use. This should be a great opportunity for us to serve in a beautiful location while working to get families back into their homes.

Covenant Community Church will be the host for the NOMADS teams in Asheville.

From Asheville, we drove to Barbourville, KY to visit the Constructors For Christ 2025 construction site. We will be helping to build the East Barbourville Baptist Church’s new sanctuary and perhaps build out some Sunday School classrooms. Since it was not too far off our route, we decided to take a quick look at the site and see the town. We arrived too late to see anyone at the church but got to take some pictures, try one of the local diners, check out the grocery stores, and the RV park we will be using. We also boondocked at the local WalMart (with permission). We are really looking forward to this project. This will be the 50^th year Constructors has provided 5-6 weeks of labor to assist churches with their building needs. What a great ministry this organization has led. It’s an honor to work and serve with them and we look forward to seeing all our Constructor friends in June. We traveled 336 miles today.

Progress is being made for our project in Barbourville.

After a good night of sleep, on May 7, we continued driving northwest. We stopped at King Donut in London, KY for breakfast pastries and then continued to Big Bone Lick State Historic Park in Union, KY. This is a smaller state park but is in a beautiful setting and bills itself as “the birthplace of American paleontology.” We would definitely stay here again. The first sight we were assigned, we couldn’t get level. So the very helpful, “off duty” camp host quickly changed our site to one that was level and located immediately behind Randy and Debra. We spent the afternoon exploring the park and waiting for Randy and Debra to arrive. Another 171 miles traveled.