Dateline April 6, Georgetown, Grand Cayman Today is a shore day or to be more precise it is a day of swimming with the Sting Rays and snorkeling a beautiful reef. We headed out at 8:15 for the theatre where we would meet up with other passengers heading in the same direction. We glanced down at our tickets and notice that they say you must be between the ages of 8 and 70 to go. What the heck! 70? 70? Forget it, we are going. So… fortunately no one asks us anything and after joining our group we head for the tender to take us in to shore. What a crock, 70! Anyway LOL, ah my, we tender in and walk about a block to the small bus that is waiting for us. Everyone jumps on ... read more

U.S. Figure Skating Championships Kansas City, Missouri Pitch black and pouring rain as we leave home at 4 am and head for the airport. Park in the dark, scramble through the rain to the brightly lit and welcoming Fresno Air Terminal. Quickly through security with our Pre-Check tickets and on to Starbucks ;-) We are off to mark something off Jean’s bucket list. To see, in person, the US Figure Skating Championships. Yep, Kansas City here we come! We have never done something like this so are excited to see world class skaters, Ashley Wagner, Olympic Silver in 2016, Gracie Gold, two- time Olympic champion, Chen and Maia, brother and sister- World and US 2016 silver and Nathen Chen, U.S. 2016 bronze medalist and many others. Watching the inauguration in our room today, getting caught up ... read more

Train to Sacramento, over Donner Pass and into Reno, Nevada 6:15 am and we're having coffee in the pitch black, in the car, in a parking lot off the Union Pacific Railroad tracks in Fresno, California. I am crying. At 6 am Cope dropped me off at the front door of the train station and waited, while I ran in to get a parking permit so we could leave the car in the fenced parking lot next to the station. Made my way across the dimly lit exterior of the building and into the brightly lit waiting room. Lots of folks in line… old, young, those who looked more affluent and those who looked less so. Looked like the united nations of train depots. Long snaking line to get to the ticket agents but it was ... read more

London, Around the City Our Last Day...oh no! May 25, 2016 We are loving our few days around and about London! We are staying near the Ritz Hotel at the Holiday Inn in the Mayfair district of London….very upscale and posh. The neighborhood is bustling and full of life…lots of traffic, pedestrians, shops and places to snack and eat! We have found a grocery store around the corner and three coffee places within a block. We spend our time wandering the city of London. Dave and his excellent map reading skills really make this part of our visit easy. And, we walk miles and miles. Our first stop today is just a few blocks away, The Faraday Museum. Dave has been wanting to go here as Michael Faraday was one of the people who got him ... read more

Scotland: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Castles and Edinburgh As we tendered off the cruise ship into the port of Queensferry, we struck up a conversation with a lady and we asked where she was from, and she said “Fresno, California”. She was traveling alone but with a group of 9. The tender went under an incredible railroad bridge that has been designated as a UNESCO World heritage site. We also saw two other suspension bridges, one just under construction, for auto’s traveling into the City of Edinburg. Dave, Sharon and Jean have been to Edinburgh before. So Sharon and Dave decided to do their own walking tour and we decided to do the “Hop On, Hop Off” bus just to get an hour’s tour of the overall city before deciding on what we specially ... read more