Sitting in my office and updating my blog at the Frothy Cup Coffee Shop yesterday a couple came over and introduced themselves saying they were going to hike cross country from Millersburg, Ohio to the Brooklyn Bridge next month, a 500 mile adventure using only country back roads through the pastoral fields and the woods of Ohio and through the thick hardwood forests of the Amish countryside of Pennsylvania, and over the Poconos and on to Brooklyn!
They were talking to Glenda and Randy the owners of the Frothy Cup about their trip and Glenda told them they should walk over to my office and talk to me about their walk so I could convey to them some practical advice since they were novices in the hiking world.
So, they came over and we all sat down together and discussed the big risks, the terrain, bear and other animal problems, rude and dangerous car drivers etc.
Dave and Pam Neubauer are in their 50s and sold most of their worldy belongings and now drive around the country in their RV. They came from a very comfortable lifestyle and transformed into "rubber tramps" for God. "Rubber", in the sense they travel around in an RV with tires as opposed to someone like me, a "leather tramp" hoofing it on foot.
Dave is a construction manager and travels around the country training and supervising workers on an ad hoc basis for many different employers doing construction gigs lasting anywhere from a few weeks to a few months. Currently, he is working just "down the hill" in Golden, Colorado.
Pam will be doing all of the walking while Dave operates the RV. Pam will hike so many miles out and then back to the RV for the night. So there will be no tent camping.
They are doing this particular 500 mile walk to raise money for a taxi in support of 7 orphanages in Myanmar formerly known as Burma.
Another goal of Pam's is to lose weight. She was up to 300 pounds and has already lost around 50 pounds training for her walk. She suffered from years of binge eating but is now turning all of that around with God's help.
Amazingly, we discovered that we have many things in common like being from Illinois, married in August of 1983, children are roughly the same age, lived in Denver 2 different times and in the same neighborhood too, attended the same Church in Denver and now hiking across the country.
They offered to take me to dinner so we got up and walked across the street to Beau Jo's Pizza where Amy P manages the salad bar. Amy was on duty at the time so Dave and Pam received a 30% discount.
During our conversation Amy came over and introduced herself to the Neubauers. She was wore out due to the Labor Day crush but we all had a great conversation.
I'm trying to arrange it for them to give a short talk to some of our area churches including mine so they might be able to whip some interest here in Clear Creek County and possibly some badly needed contributions as well.
If any of you out there are interested in learning more about their fundraising effort and their walk go to the contact info below:
Website: PamelaKayLive.com
Email: Pam@PamelaKayLive.com
FB: PamelaKayLive
Go Fund Me Acct: gofund.me/26kwjsc- to fund the taxi
gofund.me/27wutcnh- to fund the walk
Cell: 503-737-5008
Check them out at their website and read Pam's blog. They gave up the "American Dream" to devote the rest of their lives to pulling the Kingdom of God down to Earth!
Pics are of the Neubauers at the Frothy Cup and Beau Jo's
BR Schoenbein
Amy Pettit
September 6, 2016- Tuesday
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