Koppin Travel
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Ha Ha Tonka
Ha Ha Tonka is a state park near Camdenton, Missouri located on a section of the Lake of the Ozarks. The Missouri state parks website describes this park as “a geological wonderland: sinkholes, caves, a hugh natural bridge and Missouri’s twelfth largest spring”. The name Ha Ha Tonka came from the Osage Indian word for…
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How can they believe in Him, if they have not heard of Him?
Did you know, there are over 7000 spoken languages in the world? Wikipedia says that as of September 2020 the full bible has been translated into 704 languages and just the New Testament has been translated into an additional 1,551 and portions of the bible into 1,160 languages. That means approximately 5,400 to 6,300 people…
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Traveling Across Kansas
If you live in Kansas, or are from Kansas, you may love it there. There must be nice beautiful places in Kansas but crossing the state on Interstate 70 is pretty boring and there’s not much to see. The most we have seen are farm fields and windmills. Both are important but not very interesting…
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Ever hear of General William Jackson Palmer? Glen Eyrie? Navigators?
Me Neither. But I have now. Glen Eyrie was our SOWER project for the month of July. William Jackson Palmer was born in Delaware into a Quaker family and was raised in Pennsylvania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jackson_Palmer At age 17 he started working at a railroad company in the engineering department. He rapidly progressed with the company and…
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Family, Friends, Michigan,Ohio and Kentucky
In between our May Michigan SOWER project and our Colorado SOWER project we took time off to spend some time with our Ohio family and friends as well as do a little sightseeing in Kentucky. My sister, Cindy, and her husband, Steve, have a lake house about an hour from our Michigan project so we…
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Where we’ve been, what we’ve been doing and what’s it like living full-time in an RV
With multiple garage sales, we sold most of everything we had in the house and sold our house in August 2022. We joined SOWERS https://sowerministry.org/ and served our first project in November at Camp Westminster in Conyers Georgia https://www.campwestminster.org. SOWERS serve non-profit Christian organizations that have RV hook ups available and can use volunteer help.…
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SAVANNAH BANANAS
” I SAY SAVANNAH! YOU SAY BANANA!” and I along with 3,999 other people responded to SAVANNAH! with BANANA! And, that was the start of our first experience at a Savannah Banana ballgame. It was so much fun! I saw where one writer described it as ” a show where a ballgame breaks out”. They…
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Where we are now – November 2021
Camp Westminster, Conyers, Georgia Camp Westminster is a non-profit, Christian Camp. According to their website http://campwestminster.org they’re set on 114 acres and when they have a full camp, they can have 180 campers 30-day campers on site per session. They run several different sessions with different activities designed for specific age groups up to age…
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Who are we and why follow us??
We are Dave and Robyn Koppin. We’ve been married almost 50 years. We raised two great sons who are now two great husbands and fathers. Dave grew up in Ohio and Robyn primarily on Air Force bases. Dave worked for many years at the same business while Robyn apparently couldn’t decide what she wanted to…
Escaping Normal RV 