Prayer for the Journey

Before departing from San Jose, Fr. Samer blessed our truck and trailer with both the prayer for the Blessing of a Vehicle and the prayer of Blessing of a New Home, as this will be both vehicle and home for us for the duration of our trip.




From there we headed out for our first night on our own, spent in the Laguna Seca Recreation Area, just west of Monterey. It turns out that part of the local definition of "recreation" includes a NASCAR style speedway! We woke to watch race cars and motorcycles speeding around the track, but fortunately we were far enough away from the track that the noise didn't wake us up. We enjoyed a very peaceful night, and everyone slept well on this, the first night of all of us sleeping in the trailer.