Holy Trinity Monastery

Today we checked out the Holy Trinity Monastery, just a half mile down the road from our RV Park. This was founded in the mid 1970's, and has flourished into a beautiful complex of buildings, RV Park, plantings, paths, and meditation garden.

There was also a museum/art collection of a great variety of crucifixes, tableaus, and carved holy sculptures. The collection included a great number of nativity sets as well as paintings and art of regional interest.

It was amazingly serene here, very quiet and spiritual...The huge cross can be seen from highway 80, and is very distinctive in design. The Chapel of the Lady of Guadalupe is the main architectural structure in the complex and is beautifully finished inside and out, with original tiles embedded on parts of the interior walls, massive wood trim and tables with natural tree trunks as bases.

We did visit with a man that was staying at the RV Park. He said the sites are $300 a month, but after two weeks, you had an 'interview' with a committee to see if you could stay on. Weeks later you had an interview with the 'head guy' and if you did well on that, you could stay longer and come back at any time in the future. The man continued to tell us that staying there included totally volunteer work at the monastery, with anything from painting, carpentry, cleaning, yard work, working bake and craft sales, and working on the pecan shelling, bagging, etc. We bought two pounds of cleaned pecans on the way out.

It was worth the visit!

the front of the Lady of Guadalupe Chapel

Later tonight we went with Dave and Joyce Gamber to $1 taco night at the Turquoise Hills Golf Club just south of Benson. Yummy tacos, and lots of fun visiting with several other couples from Valley Vista RV Park.

Time to watch our DVR recording of Survivor! I have Rupert and Ellen has Sandra in the Fort Dodge Pool...We are in the hunt for $$$!!!!