- APeX Index (With all apologies to Harper's Review)
Number of States Performed in: 37 (Alaska, Arizona,
Arkansas, Alabama, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia,
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina,
Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas,
Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Washington, Wyoming)
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- Number of Canadian Provinces Performed
in: 1 (British Columbia)
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- Number of days since the last APeX Index:
392
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- Reason for the delay: Uncertainty about the future of the paper Apex Attacks
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- Place to find old APeX Indexes: http://apexministries.com/APeXAttacks.html
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- Exciting news in Brad and Joia's life:
They are expecting a baby boy.
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- Date expected: 02/02/02
(Groundhog's Day)
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- Brad's concern about this date: The baby will see his shadow and go back in, making
for a very long winter.
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- What Gene is looking forward to with the
baby: Teaching him to ignore what
ever his parents say.
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- What Joia is looking forward to with the
baby: Sheltering him from Gene.
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- Quote of the year to Brad (so far): "You remind me of a young Brad Farmer!"
Maria from Anchorage, AK
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- Quote of the year found in the APeX Guest
Book: "I think you guys are even
cooler than Crocket and Tubbs!" AMC from MD
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- Days Gene has been with out a home: 261
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- Reason for not having a home: Pilgrimage (not to be mistaken with Pillage)
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- What he did with most of his stuff: gave it away
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- Hardest thing to give a way: his clothes
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- Number of shirts he now owns: 9
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- Number of pairs of shoes he now owns:
9
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- Number of pants he owns: 2
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- Miles Gene traveled since January 1st
by car: over 19,500
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- Miles Gene traveled since January 1st
by air: over 80,000
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- Number of Sates and Provinces Gene visited
in his car between Feb 15th and May 15th: 32
(Arizona, British Columbia, California, Delaware, District
of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New
Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
Saskatchewan, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington,
West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming)
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- Countries visited in 2001 by Gene: Canada, Iceland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Italy
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- Some of the pilgrimage highlights: holding a baby penguin, meeting a puffin, cruising
the strip in Myrtle Beach, SC in a fire truck, meeting Bob Halligan's
son, finishing all 4 Harry Potter books (on tape), spelunking
in AZ, surfing in San Diego (ok, trying to surf), seeing
three bears in the wild, having a bald eagle glide six feet above
the car windshield for over 200 yards, visiting the church in
which every Monterastelli was baptized and married from 1450
to 1900 in Ospetali, Italy, visiting the geysers of Iceland on
horseback, receiving endless hospitality from family, friends
and strangers
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- Most important book Gene read on his pilgrimage:
Dangerous Wonder by Mike Yaconelli
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- Lesson book taught Gene: That he is not radical, but is called to a radical
following of Christ
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- Most common meal eaten by Gene on the
road: tuna fish on a roll, an orange,
and a Cliff Bar
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- Number of people interested in Gene's
diet: 2 (Gene and his mother)
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- Number of nights Gene woke up to find
his tent covered in snow: 2
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- Number of items in this Index: 32
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- Number of items about Apex (collectively):
7 (including this one)
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- Number of items in this Index about Gene:
19 (including this one)
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