Hello from the campus library at Sewanee University, or University of the South! I'm having a bit of internet trouble, so I'll finish this post late tonight or tomorrow.
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We rode up to Sewanee pretty early today, before noon and after only one difficult uphill climb. The campus at the mountaintop (Sewanee University or University of the South) is just beautiful; I think Jochem described it best as “kind of like Dook, only prettier and with fewer trees.” We’re camping tonight at nearby Lake Cheston, but we biked into the main campus this afternoon to take a look around. I think of Sewanee as somewhat of an Episcopal mecca because of the famous seminary here, and it was really nice to see at long last. Jochem and I wandered around the All Saints’ Chapel, which has some of the most intricate stained glass windows I’ve ever seen. Jean DeSaix claims that one of the windows has a Volkswagen in it, but sadly I missed that detail. Sewanee is also famous for its carillon—four and a half octaves of bells that hang in a tower and are played from a keyboard that looks like it has broomstick handles for keys. Anita and I lay on a sunny sidewalk and listened to the bells for awhile, and it was really peaceful and refreshing.
Thanks so much to the Sewanee outing programs for cooking us an awesome dinner of quesadillas, beans and rice!
PS- Happy birthday Andy!
**NEW POST!**
We rode up to Sewanee pretty early today, before noon and after only one difficult uphill climb. The campus at the mountaintop (Sewanee University or University of the South) is just beautiful; I think Jochem described it best as “kind of like Dook, only prettier and with fewer trees.” We’re camping tonight at nearby Lake Cheston, but we biked into the main campus this afternoon to take a look around. I think of Sewanee as somewhat of an Episcopal mecca because of the famous seminary here, and it was really nice to see at long last. Jochem and I wandered around the All Saints’ Chapel, which has some of the most intricate stained glass windows I’ve ever seen. Jean DeSaix claims that one of the windows has a Volkswagen in it, but sadly I missed that detail. Sewanee is also famous for its carillon—four and a half octaves of bells that hang in a tower and are played from a keyboard that looks like it has broomstick handles for keys. Anita and I lay on a sunny sidewalk and listened to the bells for awhile, and it was really peaceful and refreshing.
Thanks so much to the Sewanee outing programs for cooking us an awesome dinner of quesadillas, beans and rice!
PS- Happy birthday Andy!
Bike odometer: 896 miles
Amanda on the early-morning climb
Vegetable garden, scarecrow
Liz; a couple others playing with a horse in the background
All Saints' Chapel, Sewanee...the architecture all around the campus looked like this
Jochem inside the chapel...this photo doesn't remotely do justice to the architecture and stained glass windows
2 comments:
You are awesome, woman!! I'll be thinking of you and praying for you as you travel.
thanks so much sara! have you moved yet? i hope everything is going well for you and mark with the big transition!
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