My original plan was to blog while I was on the trip. I could not. When I had Wi-Fi I did not have time. When I had time, such as at the Bible camp where we stayed, I did not have Wi-Fi. So my blogs are going to be retrospective rather than real time. I spent a great deal of time planning for this trip. In addition to a mission trip, I wanted the trip to be a sort of American heritage trip. I also wanted to visit some famous crime scenes. More on that later. Time does not always cooperate with plans, so some of what I wanted us to see went by the wayside. This first blog is going to be about what we missed. On the first day we travelled 900 miles and 17 hours so we could stay at a motel next to a park where in 1934, two FBI agents battled it out with Pretty Boy Floyd. Today there is a rock with a plaque on it that commemorates the Battle of Barrington and honors the two agents who died there. My plan was to have devotions at that spot in the morning. I foun