Here is a quick update on my travels and current location!
We left Zion’s Gate ministries on Friday morning where we flew from Tegucigalpa, Honduras to Miami, FL and straight from there to JFK airport. We spent 20 some hours posted up in New York City before we then flew to Istanbul, Turkey.
I didn’t have much interest in going in to New York City so Mac, my squad leader, and myself stayed behind in the airport and watched over everyone’s gear. The flight to Istanbul Turkey was an over night flight and took ten hours. It was an easy ten hours though. The seats in front of you had TV monitors were I could watch movies or even play chess.
In Istanbul we then had a short three-hour lay over. The change in culture from Central America to the Middle East/Eastern Europe was prevalent but not over whelming. I went from not being able to understand fully what people were saying in Spanish to not being able to make out words or even what language they were speaking here in Turkey.
From Istanbul we flew to Bucharest, Romania, which took about an hour or so. I traded seats with a local guys and got to hang out with Hugh and Kelly on that flight which was a blast.
After arriving in Bucharest in the middle of the night we spent the rest of the night in a cool little hostel with high ceilings and bunk bed rooms.
Bucharest was our second to last destination as from there we would take a 12 hour train ride to Oradea, Romania. This again was an over night travel as we would leave Bucharest at around nine or so and arriving around nine this morning on Tuesday the tenth in Oradea.
The train ride was full of good conversation and good company. Hugh, Kelly, Sisk and myself were joined in our train car by a twenty year old Romania girl named Theo. We shared some wine and talked about all kinds of things from past relationships to the race and what love is. That is actually what I sat down to write this blog about; what love is. But I will write about that tomorrow I guess.
Anyway, I am here safe and sound in Oradea sitting on my bed. The first real bed I have had at a ministry site since the start of the race.
That you all for your continued prayers and love. God bless, Mark
