People and Places

      With 80's rock-n-roll playing over the radio, people moving all around us, a surprising amount of undiluted degreaser, and some serious arm power, Levi and I cleaned off the dry grease caked onto a metal shelf which held dishes for the Los Angeles Catholic Worker House's soup kitchen.  This snapshot captures many aspect of what our past few days have been like.
      As I briefly mentioned last update, Levi and I were going to make an effort to stay with people rather than camping so much, and that is what we found ourselves doing this past week.  This past week we got connected with some people who's houses we stayed at through Mennonite Your Way and also through Catholic Worker Houses.  At these places we got to meet a lot of cool people, had lots of good conversations, learned some new things, and got to serve a bit.
      As I mentioned earlier we stayed at some Catholic Worker Houses.  We randomly got connected with this network of communities through, seemingly a God kind of thing.  One day we were sitting in a Starbucks in Las Vegas, we were looking for places to stay at our upcoming destinations and the Catholic Worker Houses came to my mind.  I didn't really know anything about these houses, except that Dorthy Day started the movement and that they were geared towards severing the poor.  I got the numbers of some of the houses through the Internet and made some phone calls.  At some point in the conversations I would say something like,
       "So, I'm pretty ignorant to what you guys do, but, would you be able to host my friend Levi and I for a night?"
      To my surprise, both the Los Angeles Catholic Worker House and the formerly Catholic Worker House in San Francisco offered to have us for a few nights.  At these places we got to hang out with the people who lived in the houses, listen to a speaker talk about serving the mentally ill and chronically homeless, have good conversations while walking the sidewalks of the city or gazing out towards the skyline while sitting on the third floor balcony, serve homeless people breakfast, clean a kitchen, and chill out.  It was pretty sweet.

       This next week we will be up near Portland Oregon visiting my friend Daniel Lister and checking out the city, Seattle Washington, and Vancouver British Colombia.  We are expecting good things and delicious coffee.  

Keep us in your prayers,
Much Love,
Levi and Elliot

White Sand New Mexico (bring sunglasses)

Sedona Arizona, Church on the Rocks

Grand Canyon at sunset

Yosemite National Park, you can see half dome in the distance.

Lakewood Church.  Joel Osteen's church in Houston. 

 Apparently its the biggest church in the U.S.

The Alien museum in Roswell New Mexico.

After visiting we still don't know why Roswell is known for aliens.

Its a tourist trap...

My DTS friend Paul enjoying some In-and-Out.

Levi loves In-and-Out.

"We're in Vegas Baby!"