Hello John,

my family and I placed our SamStone yesterday. It was a beautiful day up here in Cumbria. We walked up High Hartsop Dodd and on to Little Hart Crag. I placed the stone in the cairn at the top of Little Hart Crag, and we all said a little prayer for Sam. It’s a nice walk; you go past a lovely little lake called Brothers Water; past an ancient (stone age?) settlement; then up a very steep climb. Then you are “on top of the world”, mountains all around. (Mountains by UK standards. The tallest in England is 3000 feet!) I’ve included some of the pictures below.

Here is what my GPS device told me:
1. UK coordinates (Ordnance Survey GB, British Grid)
NY 38854
BNG 10052
Approx. 2100 feet elevation.

Then I switched it to a more global scheme:
N 54 degrees. 28 minutes. 55.2 seconds.
W 2 degrees. 56 minutes. 37.9 seconds.
Hopefully that will make some sense.

Mike James left SamStones at the sites of two builidngs that he helped build on a mission trp to mexico. Here are soem pictures and some nfo on the trip

In late February, I lead a team of families from Vermont to Reynosa, Mexico. During our week long missions trip, we built two small homes for two Mexican families. One of the families had only days before lost their home and their youngest child, a two year old daughter, to a fire. Rand Larson had given me two Sam Stones before the trip, and on our last day when we dedicated the homes, we placed a Sam Stone next to each one.

While I never met Sam, I am sure we would have enjoyed having him on the team! It seems he was a fun, energetic, and talented guy.

You can find out more about our trip and the homes at http://reynosa07.blogspot.com

You can also view the locations of the two homes and the Sam Stones….

Site 1 – it is a blank lot in the middle of the photo
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=reynosa+mexico&layer=&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&z=18&ll=26.014299,-98.294195&spn=0.003336,0.006748

Site 2 – something strange with these pictures and the long lines… the site is the blank lot just to the right of the double smears on the photo…
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=reynosa+mexico&layer=&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&z=18&ll=26.019308,-98.299323&spn=0.003336,0.006748&iwloc=addr

God’s Blessings!
-MJ