Baymont Inn Cincinnati

This was our 5th anniversary trip. Each year we take a vacation of some sort to celebrate our anniversary and avoid all the Thanksgiving craziness. This year we choose to go on a western caribbean cruise aboard the Carnival Valor.<br><br>Saving money is our mantra this year. We're halfway through building a new ...

Leaving for KL in 6 days, monsoon season i know, but. Plan on spending Christmas and New Year in Malaysia before heading north to Thailand after getting a visa in Penang. Anyone out there care to share a Tiger somewhere in the peninsula drop me a line. <br>Wherever enjoy your trip to s/e asia!<br>Polesana<br>

Hotel reservations - Done.<br>House rental reservation - Done.<br>Airline reservation - Done.<br>Car Rental - Not yet....<br><br>We have truly made a lot of headway. It is hard to believe that only about 2 months ago - I got an e-mail from Lori asking...."What do you think about this idea????"<br>We are so thrilled to be going with the Dunn-Reier family to Ireland. Since I was a little girl - I have dreamed of traveling to the Emerald Isle ...

... praying. I couldn't help but smile and follow his example, sending up my own wishes for a safe day of traveling around the Atlantic and such. So thank you, praying man in seat 30A, you made me feel so much better.<br><br>Flight #2 Cincinnati-New York<br><br>One of those tiny Delta connection flights where they take the larger carry-on bags and put them under the plane. Wound up actually talking to the person I was sitting next to. She'd done teaching in American schools ...

... family portraits in fading guilt frames, ancient tin advertising signs and canisters, deer heads, wooden snow shoes with leather straps, rusting tools - all redolent of a long gone past except of course for the very current American flags. Who gets to roam the country buying up all that stuff? And is there a warehouse of it somewhere? ("Could you guys send over an old caste iron skillet and a warped mirror with fading gold paint?") <br><br>And, decor aside ...

... off on trying to figure out the best way to get there. It looks like it's going to be Dublin. It's the best location for the money and the timing. We can leave Friday night, 3/26/09, and get there at 7:50 a.m. on the 27th and have two full days before we report to our cottages. That will give us time to kiss the Blarney Stone and shop for woolen sweaters! And, oh yeah, maybe send at least part of the group golfing while Cherie and I shop. Mike and Kevin, do ...

As this was Audie's first flight, I took a picture of her at the Grand Rapids International Airport. I was able to make it through the metal detector without the lead in my **** setting it off! My next fear was that due to the quantity of prescription medications I took with me, I was afraid ...

... at the store so even before I got to work; I saw the local news doing live local shots from the store while we ate breakfast at the hotel. It was a frantic day since they wanted everything clean and tidy for the news. Jay and I worked the best we could trying not to make a mess. I had to laugh because they took my picture a number of times as well as some video as I was working. It seems that Jay and I were the only ones who actually looked like we were ...

... in "the hood" in an RV towing a boat was quite an experience. My daughter learned some new choice words as Brett attempted to weave through the parked/defunked cars on the city streets. Wish I had taken a picture of the locals with their mouths agape, like they don't see a RV towing a redneck boat, complete with homemade tarp/wood cover every day. We didn't stop in this part of town, but if we did I'm ...

... quote that hangs in one of the Physics labs about the cost of atomic energy, and instead came across this: "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself." Granted, it's not exactly what I wanted to tie into my upcoming experiences... but then again... it might even be better for my impending trip. From there I will fly a few hours, and, what's been described as thousands of years, to Hong Kong to spend about 5 hours doing some shopping in this ridiculously ...