Blogs from Greenville, South Carolina, United States, North America

Well, tomorrow we start our Petty Vacation 2023. We'll be going from Greenville South Carolina to Valencia, then along the eastern and southern coast of Spain to Gibraltar. We catch flight tomorrow morning (at 6am!) to Detroit, where we have an 11 hour layover. Yes, 11 hours! Next, we leave from Detroit for Paris France, with another layover, this time only 7 hours... only! Finally, at about 2pm Tuesday, we take our final flight to Valencia Spain. We'll spend a few days in Valencia, then travel to Alicante, where a couple from my Camino Frances 2017 live. Next we go to Murcia for a couple days, then Cartagena for a couple more days. Then we'll be staying in Malaga for 6 days. In Malaga we'll be meeting my niece Salome, to spend some time with her. ... read more

4-Day Trial Walk: Day 1: I left the house a bit later than I’d wanted to… about 9:30am. After parking my car in the Hertz garage at Greenville Spartanburg Airport (GSP), I rode back home with my wife, get my stuff together and started walking around 11am. After walking through our lovely neighborhood, I continue down Neely Farm Road, past W. Georgia Road, until I decided to take a break at the SpinX gas station on E. Standing Springs Road around 12:30pm, where I took my shoes off while I enjoyed a Cheerwine Icee or Slurpee. Can you say brain freeze? LOL Along the way I met a little friend on the side of the road, see the photo. Fortunately although the snake had its head reared up and mouth open, it was quite dead. My ... read more

Bonjour à tous Que c'est agréable de retrouver du wifi qui fonctionne. Finalement ce matin il ne s'est rien passé avec l'hôtel, et pourtant j'étais levé du mauvais pied, ce qui est rare chez moi. Généralement ça vient plus tard. La raison est qu'au pdj je voyais un gars crisé sur sa tablette, je n'arrivais pas bien à entendre, quelle langue il parlait avec sa femme, et en passant j'ai vu son passeport Français. Je lui dis vous aussi vous avez des problèmes de wifi. Et de là est partie une discussion de presque une heure. Et c'est lui qui m'a calmé en me disant ils sont gentils mais ils s'en foute. Ce couple du Mans, devait partir hier au soir pour Paris avec Air France, l'avion en panne, et AF les a logés. Et avec ... read more

We're just getting ready to leave for our two month trip West and back. We plan to see as many of the National Parks as we can and hope we will be able to get into Yosemite in spite of the fires there now. It will be our first long trip in our new (to us) Winnebago motor coach. It's smaller than the 5th wheel we previously had, so it will be "cozy".Stay tuned for our blog posts over the next two months. Lindsay and Gail... read more

Naechste Station: Greenville, SC Um in meinen Blog wenigstens ein kleines bisschen Ablenkung zu bringen, berichte ich dieses Mal nicht aus Athens, GA - sondern aus Greenville, South Carolina. Laut Googlemaps befindet sich Greenville 101 Meilen oder 1 Stunde und 45 Minuten von mir entfernt in nordoestlicher Richtung. Grund meines Grennville Besuchs war eine AIESEC Konferenz, auf der ich als Trainerin den neuen Mitgliedern unsere Organisation naeherbringen durfte. Angekommen bin ich schon am Donnerstagabend mit 5 anderen AIESECern, die mich netterweise auf ihrem Weg von Atlanta nach Greenville aufgegabelt haben. Von daher durfte ich die erste Nacht in einem Travellodge-Verschnitt verbringen, bevor es am Freitag endlich losging. Die Konferenz fand ab Freitag in einem netten Hotel (Hyatt) statt, wobei ich leider dem Pool (siehe Bilder von meinem Zimmer mit Blick auf ... read more