My Effort to Visit Various Temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Throughout the World
Like all good temple trips, this one started early. I was on the road to Reagan National Airport at 3:59 AM! The nonstop flight to Montreal leaves at 6 AM. I will fly back tonight at 7 PM! The spirit is willing, but my French …
As with most, if not all, of my temple trips, it starts with the airfare. This one took me about 80 searches to finally land on it when I was looking around last Sunday afternoon. Frontier airlines flies nonstop from Baltimore to San Juan, Puerto …
It isn’t often that I start off one of these temple trips by commenting about the hotel, but tonight is an exception. I’m in the La Quinta Inn and uites at the Salt Lake City Airport and I’m thrilled to death! I flew from Washington …
As with every good story, this one starts at the beginning. The beginning was the cost of the round-trip airfare to Seattle, which was $73.18. It continued with the cost of the rental car, needed to drive three hours back east to Moses Lake. That …
As with all good temple visits, it starts with where you were when you began the visit. In this case, I was at FanX in Salt Lake City. Here’s proof: I’m here in Salt Lake City to help out my friends at this convention. The …
I had an 8 AM endowment session the next morning so all was well. It’s a joyous thing to drive 84 miles an hour using cruise control all the way up through Idaho and Montana. We can’t drive that fast legally in Washington DC, but …
Any trip to the Richmond Virginia Temple from the Washington DC area has to go on I-95 South. That’s generally not a pleasant experience, especially on Juneteenth weekend! The Richmond Virginia Temple was dedicated on my birthday, May 7 of last month. It was originally …
My trip to the Anchorage Alaska Temple was going to be my final US operating temple, number 82. But then the airlines stepped in and gave me too good of a deal. So, I just scheduled my Anchorage Alaska Temple trip for the last week …
AUGUST 26, 2023 This is going to be a great day! I’m on board for Skywest Delta connection flight from Washington DC to Minneapolis and it is 6 AM. I have a two hour layover in Minneapolis and then it’s on to Bismarck where I’ll …
My second stop on this 48-hour Hawaiian temple trip is the Kona Hawaii Temple. I left my sister Patti‘s house in Laie at 5 o’clock this morning. Then, I drove an hour north to the Honolulu airport. Next, I boarded a Hawaiian Airlines flight at …