It was a quiet relaxing two weeks and Michelle seemed to have an almost permanent smile on her face. We passed the Silver Dragons a week out and the r...est a half day later. I had originally planned to dock at Gamma Station but decided to anchor instead and use a space tether to check it out.The huge star ships floated in the distance as I let Michelle make the approach. The squad of Marines seemed to have taken their unintended trip well. Brit had grinned at George more than once and put them to. His uniform had the well-used look of a career naval officer but carried the wavy stripes of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; he hadn't just joined up as far as Clegg could see. On the other hand, Clegg didn't think he'd been at sea for quite a while. The man's pale complexion spoke of a war that had been spent indoors and ashore; the briefcase that lay on the bar beside him was padlocked to his wrist. What was more, on the far side of the bar a particularly attractive WRNS officer was. The town was still in some disarray as a result of the riot, so we were not bothered. I led us out of town in a direction about 45° from the direct line to the camp. I didn't want someone using our line of departure as our final direction.The camp was only about two miles away from town, but it was in a direction rarely, if ever, traveled. My plan was to pack up everything in the ATV and head even farther away from town. The replicator and the computer in the ATV could do all we really needed. 9/1/2012 Yesterday after dinner as usual we sat around the dining room table and read the Bible together. We read in the Book of Acts where the Lord appears before Paul through a dream and tells him to go westward and preach the Gospel to the Gentiles of the West. And this, according to Pastor, is the first instance when Christianity is being spread to the Western world. Even though modern Christianity is most closely associated with the West, in the very beginning of Christianity, all the.