Saturday and Sunday We had great fun last night at Shenanigan's. On Saturday we spent the day with Larry and Melia. After a few morning drinks, we drove out to West End to Old Bahama Bay Resort. I had heard that there was a lot of development out there after I left the island. Al Jones was working with the Ginn Corporation and leading the development here. Unfortunately, Al was off the island, so we were not able to see him. But we toured the area and then went to the marina for lunch. We had all heard that John Travolta's 16-year-old son, Jett, died on January 2nd, at the family's vacation home in Old Bahama Bay. The family, including Jett Travolta's mother, Kelly Preston, and his 8-year-old sister, Ella, had been celebrating the New Year ... read more

We started the year with a few parties. The first, on January 5th, was in the Manhattan to celebrate the birthday of our friend, Rich DeLuca. Soon after, we joined Jackie's mother, Martha New, for her birthday on January 16th. A big part of our lives are our grandchildren. Their ages are now 4 to 13. All have school and sport activities. So, over the year you will see many of these events as well as numerous birthday events. In January, the sport is indoor basketball. In the photos you’ll see Emmy in competition. Dianne sent out a photo with a house in the background described as Mother’s birthplace. It did not match up with my memory. Mother went with Jackie and me once and showed us the house. Dianne’s photo just did not seem correct. ... read more

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 The Reunion Today was the ultimate climax to our adventure. We had great fun in Europe and driving there was an adventure. But spending the day in Greenville at the BMW Performance School was a top thrill for me and Jackie. As I reported yesterday, we drove from Atlanta to Greenville, SC and spent the night at the Marriott. The drive was about two hours, about 100 miles. After our endurance driving in Europe, this was nothing. We drove up in my Toyota Highlander, with Ursula at the GPS. After a nice breakfast, we followed a van from the hotel to the Performance Center. It is a short drive from the hotel. Upon arrival at the visitor center we were ushered into a classroom for some briefing and signing waiver documents. Yes, ... read more

Thursday/Saturday, June 26-28 We are back to the USA! I am writing this final blog on Sunday, June 29, 2008. I will do a brief wrap up of our return trip. We are happy to be home but it seems strange to have no place to go. We had the time of our lives. We have lots of people to thank for their support. I also want to thank all of our blog readers. I saw noticed on the travel blog site that I have had over 1600 hits on the blogs. Thank you for taking the time to follow our journey. Thursday This was our planned return date. Dianne and John were returning too. We all were traveling on a stand-by basis. However, we did not have the same priority. John works for Delta and ... read more

Sunday, June 22 Dublin How long can it rain? We got up to another wet day. We had an added feature this morning with high winds. It was gusting up to 50 mph. We had plans to check out of The Regency Hotel and move downtown to the B/W Royal Dublin Hotel early. But with this weather we decided to take our time. We did not want to do a ‘Dublin walking tour’ on a day like this. We finally left the hotel about 11:00am. We drove into town and found the parking garage for the hotel. Jackie tried but failed to find a way to get the door open so we drove around to the main street in Dublin, O’Connell Street. The only problem now was this is a busses and taxis only street. I ... read more