Foreshadowing! It happens in real life because God is the Author of our lives.
The van is obviously symbolic of Hadrian himself - I bought and outfitted it as a custom vehicle just to get him around and give us temporary shelter and the ability to move without help if need be, which turned out to be the case last time and looks to be the case again this time.
Teach your children well. I'm sorry I wasn't able to protect them from everything. I could keep them from physical harm - neither son has yet died unbaptized, and that was and remains the goal. Please pray for Josh to be able to have visits from a
Things got heavy fast. There were good moments too, and those will be shown. But the purpose of backstory is to explain why and how things went so badly, so this series is a bit of a tear-jerker.
The grand finale of our road trip was a day at the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter in Kentucky! Yes, I am a Catholic and a literal Bible believing young earth creationist. No, it's not mandatory for Catholics, at least not since 1950, but it is still allowed
Summer Holiday comes to an end, and the real work begins. For more on the Heartland Model of Book of Mormon geography, some useful resources are the docuseries "Hidden In The Heartland", published works of authors like Jonathan Neville, and the Stoddard family. I can't remember