August 29, 2021 – Ready, Set, BUILD!

We left Celebration, FL on Friday, August 27th on our 1,057 mile adventure to Sullivan, IL in ‘Roadie’ (the name of our Allegro Open Road motor home).     Joe is an AMAZING driver 🙂

In case you’re wondering about how it is to live in a motor home ….  well, as Tiffin motor homes say in their slogan Roughing it Smoothy,   Roadie  has all the comforts you could ask for … including a queen size bed, a nice size bathroom and shower, a full kitchen with a residential refrigerator, a living room with a fireplace, and 4 TV’s :-).

On the last leg of our journey, we traveled through about 60 miles of rural countryside, seeing farm …after farm… after farm….    This is truly the heartland of America, and makes us realize what a great country this is!

We arrived at ‘Faith Resort’ this afternoon.  It’s behind the Faith Lutheran church in Sullivan, IL, a few miles from the build site.   The church and the town of Sullivan are very generous.  They supply each of the six ‘rigs’ at this build with water and electricity.   Our church family also invites us to use their large gathering room and kitchen during our stay …. and even installed a washer and dryer for us to use!

At the ground breaking ceremony today, we caught up with some old friends from the local Sullivan Habitat team. We were able to meet the new homeowner (Tammy) and her two grown disabled children (Tim and Trey). It’s always heartwarming to see the excitement for this build, especially after what everyone has gone through over the last couple of years.  After the ceremony, we enjoyed a welcome dinner at a local church where (as usual) there was an incredible amount of food and some amazing desserts.

This is the first year that we signed up to build the entire house. So, in 6 weeks we will see this house go from the foundation (in the picture below) to a home that is ready for move-in. Amazing!

The fun begins at 8AM tomorrow morning!