A Couple of Mismatched Circles

 🎵 The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round. 🎵 

And so does the bus itself. It runs in big circles all over America.

I have been documenting our circles out and back home this year and we have enjoyed several of these tours across America and visiting with some of our nation's finest people.

Tour # 1
Tour # 2
Tour #3

I have our last two circles to tell you about today. One of them was very small and one of them was very large! They were completely mismatched circles.

Let us start out small. Near the end of the first week of August, we pulled out of the barn and drove to Pendleton, Kentucky on I-71 for an oil change. The next day we finished the trip to Central City, Kentucky to hold tent revival for Pastor Alan Harris and Trinity Pentecostal Church.

From there we pulled the tent trailer to Evansville, Indiana and then took the BoggsMobile back to Ohio for services on Sunday. However, before the bus rolled from Evansville, we jumped in the Green Machine and drove near Salem, Kentucky for Brentni's wedding and then back to the bus.

By late that night we were parked at Free Pentecostal Church in Springdale. We preached Homecoming for Pastor Randy Brown in Sharonville Sunday morning, back to Springdale Sunday night and in the barn before bedtime to complete the circle. The BoggsMobiled rolled 637 miles that circle.

The next circle was about 15 times bigger. The bus was only in the barn one full day after the small circle and then we rolled to Dryden Rd Fellowship Meeting in Dayton.

Google Maps now limits the map to 10 locations so I have broken the circle up into three sections.

Home to Dayton and then to Evansville, IN, Pine Prairie, LA, Richton, MS, Wilmer, AL, Cantonment, FL, Foley, AL, Richton, MS and then Wilmer, AL.

From Tanner Williams Holiness Church in Wilmer, we went to Bond, KY, London, KY, Vonore, TN, Elkton, VA, Vonore, TN, Paducah, KY, Florence, MT, Arbuckle, CA and finally to Amazing Grace Holiness Tabernacle in Atwater, CA.

During the circle above, we drove the Green Machine from London, KY to the Ranch for about 30 hours and before driving 3 hours back to London.

The final leg of the circle went from Atwater to Riverdale, CA, Hanford, CA, Riverdale, CA, San Luis Obispo, CA, Riverdale, CA, Bloomington, CA, El Mirage, AZ and then a short hop home to the Lazy OD Ranch.

Now, the list of cities does not always include all of the cities where we preached revival. These are the places where the BoggsMobile visited. There are times we park in one city and preach revival in another.

This BoggsMobile circle was 9743 miles and the western part of the circle from Virginia to California and back home was 6782 miles. It included three tent revivals at least eight church revivals, two camp meetings, two Homecomings, two stops at East Tennesse Luxury Coach, some single services, a school chapel service, a Christmas banquet, Thanksgiving and a whole lot of driving days. Yep, that was a big circle. 

We had a wonderful time all along the way, preaching revivals, making new friends, visiting with our long time friends, seeing all of the sights, eating terrific food, having a great time among the three of us and doing our best to fulfill our calling.

A new circle starts later this week by the Grace of God. As planned at the moment, the next circle will take in at least ten states and nearly six months. We have a big oversees trip scheduled in the middle of it, but unfortunately, the BoggsMobile does not fly well. Stay tuned!

Davy

Travel Log and Circle

After service Tuesday night in Everett, Mass, we visited while tearing down the sound equipment and loading it into the Green Machine. We left the church a few minutes after ten and arrived at the bus in Peabody about 10:30. 

In thirty minutes we had loaded Odie in the bus, loaded the sound equipment in the bay of the bus, hooked up the Green Machine for the bus and cranked up. We were pulling out of the parking lot at 11:00 PM, right on schedule.

There are three main routes between Boston and home and each of those routes has two or three variations and options. We chose to go around the west side of Boston on the I-95 loop until we hit I-90 west. We followed 90 to I-84W to I-91S and joined back up with I-95 west along the coast of Connecticut.

I knew the first travel plaza in Connecticut would have fuel cheaper than we would see it for many miles, so we stopped in for the pleasure of adding nearly 100 gallons at $3.13 a gallon, a bargain.

This stretch had whipped up on us the Thursday before with all the traffic, but it was wide open overnight. That was the whole purpose of driving at night. Soon we were bypassing entering NY, going around NYC on I-287 and crossing the Hudson on the new Tappan Zee Bridge. They were building this bridge the last time we were through.

The BoggsMobile followed 287 south into New Jersey and then turned west on I-80. With most of the potential for huge city traffic behind us, we began to look for places to stop for the night. We knew our opportunities were slim along this stretch and we were prepared to drive to a rest area in Pennsylvania near Berwick.

We cruised through a few rest areas and truck parking places along the way but they were all over full. We rolled into the rest area near Berwick about 5:40 AM and the truckers were beginning to stir and hit the road. There were two spaces empty and we only needed one. Hallelujah! Praise God for 365 trouble free miles overnight.

Odie rides in her bunk so she was already in position to sleep and had probably been sleeping for hours. Kelly Jo and I did not tarry long and we were in bed a few minutes after 6:00. I did not sleep as long as I would have liked, but I had over four hours of very deep sleep. It felt heavenly.

Kelly Jo prepared a big breakfast later in the day and we were on the road by 3:00 PM. We stopped for nothing but construction and bathroom breaks in the next 501 miles. We did have several one lane construction backups on I-80 though. One of them was especially slow. We traveled 25 miles in 51 minutes. Whew!

All the Ohio interstate traffic was wide open and that helped a lot on the final stretch home. The BoggsMobile was pulling into the drive at 11:05, 24 hours and five minutes after we left Peabody, Massachusettes.

That completed our circle of eight full days and 1790 miles in the bus. Out of the eight days, we were driving the bus five of them. We preached five services in two different churches, both of them in Massachusettes. The first church in Fall River for Pastor Isaac and the second in Everett for Pastor Plummer. It was a great tour.

This is our approximate route.

Our next revival is close to home. We begin Sunday morning and go through Wednesday night at Anchor of Hope for Pastor EJ Lamb. We will leave shortly afterward for our next tent revival in Central City, Kentucky. We are looking forward to both meetings very much.

Thank you for joining us today.

Davy

Another Circle

Dayton Area Tornado Update:
Yes, as many of you have heard, tornadoes ripped through the western and northern outlying areas around Dayton. There is significant damage in Brookville, Trotwood and other areas.

One family from our church had structural damage to their home and they have already faced some terrific challenges in the last few years. As far as I know right now, (10:00 Eastern Tuesday) no one else from our church is directly affected. Most of our family live south and east of Dayton and they are fine. There is a possibility of more severe weather today.

Happy Birthday
First, I would like to say a great big hearty HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my Dad, Eugene Boggs. We love you very much and we are thinking of you today. We hope you have a terrific day.

Phone Service/Internet
The last time we were in Independence, AT&T had not discovered that part of Iowa and we had no phone signal. I am confidently hoping that things have changed since then. We plan to be there through Sunday and if you do not hear much from us until next week, you will know why.

Another Circle
Our short visit home last week to get the tent trailer and to attend the party for graduation completed another circle in our long series of circles traveling from place to place. We left The Lazy OD Ranch April 13, returned May 20 and traveled 3,296 miles in the bus.

In that time and distance, we preached five revivals in Kentucky, Indiana and Oklahoma, along with services in Texas and Tennessee. It was a relatively short circle time-wise, but we put on some miles. The circle we began Sunday will only be about five weeks, but it will be filled with a lot of driving too.

This is the first part from home to Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and back to OKC.

The second part is from OKC to Paden, Claremore and then toward home.

We sure praise God for taking care of us all those miles and for giving us the favor of the people in churches along the way. It is a pleasure to spend our days traveling this country and preaching the message of hope and salvation to all that will hear.

One of our greatest pleasures is that people receive us so well. They receive our message, they receive our singing and they receive us personally. We are living the good life!

Can you imagine a life of staying in one place all the time? It would be a life of no circles! 

I suppose that most of you reading can imagine that life just fine and you are glad that it is us and not you traveling in circles. Well, it takes all kinds to make the world go round!😀

It is time to drive some more! God bless you all.

Davy

Life Goes In Circles For Us

Life goes in circles for us, it seems. We pull out of the driveway on the ranch and drive as fast as we can to destinations far, far away. The next week, we go again and the next week we go again. Sometimes we have been gone for as long as 7 1/2 months, but the gravitational pull always pulls us back to close the circle in Ohio.

We completed our first big circle of the year when we drove back onto the Lazy OD Ranch Saturday evening. We left on January 3 and arrived home April 6 after traveling 4472 miles in the BoggsMobile. The maps below show all the places we stopped and all of the churches where we preached. 

However, the bus did not make it to two churches. The bus missed the Sweeny church because of the breakdown. It spent two weeks in Houston at the Prevost shop. Also, the bus did not make it to Beechfork church, but parked at the hotel in Oak Ridge.

Although everything did not go exactly as planned, we had a terrific first quarter of the year. The Lord blessed us with wonderful services in every revival and we praise God for it. We did not have one revival service that was "off" in any way. That is awesome and God receives the glory.

We did have to cancel our anticipated revival with Pastor Jon Isaacs at Grace Fellowship because of the bus difficulty, but we stayed an extra four services in Sweeny. Bro. Isaacs was able to have a wonderful revival with another evangelist so after all was said and done, God worked it all out.

Our next circle begins Saturday with our trip to Calvary Pentecostal Church in Brooks, Kentucky. Following that we will go to Indiana, Tennessee and all the way back to Texas and then circle through Oklahoma on the way back home for two days Memorial Day weekend. That should take us about 3500 miles in about six weeks. We will see how that works out.

Today we worked on the barn, house, bus, car and yard and still had time to pick up a few things at Rural King and a side stop for Salsa. We did quit in time to glance out the window to see a beautiful sunset!

Wow!

Thank you for dropping by today.

Davy