by Uncle Bob Culver | Dec 3, 2018 | Atlanta, GA, Bob's Bus Blog, Face to Face, iFace the World at My Doorstep, Uncategorized
My Humphrey Fellow friends in Atlanta might remember Dr. Pierre Kwizera from Burundi who invited me to travel with his team of community organizers into rural areas of his country. What a grand adventure equal to any GO West trip! We met local business, government and...
by Uncle Bob Culver | Aug 6, 2018 | A Word to the Wise, Bob's Bus Blog, Uncategorized
My parents owned a beautiful “Eleganza” motorhome that my mom would often remind me was not a camper, nor an SUV, but a motorhome. They knew when we came to visit them in Colorado that we would often take our family on a 4-5 day vacation in the Colorado mountains and...
by Uncle Bob Culver | Jun 7, 2018 | A Word to the Wise, Bob's Bus Blog, Uncategorized
When was a demotion the best thing that happened to me? I wanted to earn money for college in a new environment at the beginning of June 1967. The previous summer I had worked at the luxurious Broadmoor Hotel earning about $5/hr, 5x the min wage. But I thought it was...
by Uncle Bob Culver | May 18, 2018 | Bob's Bus Blog
Before I could guide thousands of international students on 7-10 day “cross county, cross cultural bus trips with the cross of Christ”, I had to learn how to lead myself out of harms way. As a typical adolescent—what my dad called a misguided youth—I was the type of...
by Uncle Bob Culver | Apr 19, 2018 | Bob's Bus Blog, Uncategorized
Taking a diversionary side trip from my methodical 8 pm – 8 am night watchman’s shift at my mother-in-law’s bedside, we hiked around the lake at her brother’s cabin in Nebraska. What’s the least expected thing you’d think you’d see beside a lake in a landlocked...
by Uncle Bob Culver | Apr 15, 2018 | Bob's Bus Blog, Uncategorized
On our first GO West bus adventure in 1985, just after hiking in the Grand Canyon, our bus pulled into the famous “four corners” of the United States where the boarders of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado all touch in one spot. The above picture...
