Dubious Well-wishers

This is my tenth visit to China.  Trips of this sort never become routine, but families do get used to one’s departure.  Joe dropped me off at the door of the TRI-Cities Airport Sunday morning and continued on to a preaching engagement at First United Methodist Church, Bristol because he was short on time.  Not all our party’s significant others were this nonchalant.  Brittany Gilbert’s family behaved as if she were leaving for the other side of the world, which she in fact was.

 My co-instructor, John Mooneyham, has done lots of teaching in Asia, but his girlfriend’s pit bull seemed as dubious about our travel plans as Brittany’s send-off committee.