Last Saturday, our oldest daughter Kristin celebrated her 36th birthday. It hardly seems possible that this life changing event occurred to Janet and me so long ago. I remember it like it was yesterday. And to think about the journey…
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On Friday afternoon, we set out for St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. It is not nearly as grand as some of the other cathedrals in the British Isles, but you can tell that it is very special to the people…
Today we visited Belfast, Ireland; which was one of the stops that Janet has really been excited about. That’s because her paternal grandfather came from Belfast, and as I said last evening, nobody from the family has been to see…
We’re on our way to Belfast – and Janet is pretty excited about it. That’s because her family is from the British Isles, and her dad’s side of the family is from Belfast. Nobody else in the family has made…
Summer is here – literally. It arrived at today 1:16 pm eastern time, which was 6:16 pm here in Scotland. I really did not realize that we were already this late in June, but that is one of the pitfalls…
It’s 10:55 pm, and we’re out at sea. Although the sun technically set around 10:20, it still looks like dusk and I can make out the outlying northern Orkney Islands as I look out our stateroom balcony. The water is…
Well, it’s Sunday night – Father’s Day, 2011. And we are heading up the east coast of Scotland to the Orkney Islands for a day ashore tomorrow. This trip has been full of all kinds of memories and reminders of…
Well, we just returned to the ship from a day in Paris. We set out from Le Harve on the Normandy Coast this morning for the three hour drive to Paris; where we took a tour of the city, seeing…
I am deeply sorry to let you know that although I fully intended to write tonight, it is very late and we had a good, but busy day getting to the ship. By the time everything was done, it became…
Well, tonight Janet and I are in London. I realize that it is 5 hours earlier back in Indiana, but we are getting ready to call it a night, and I did not want to miss a chance to post…