Comfort Inn Newburgh

Leaving USA for Germany Dec 17 to visit our daughter who is studying in Bonn. While we are there we will visits some family south of Munich and also in Tubingen. We met most of them 10 years ago when we last visited. We are so looking ...

... and a nice street close to the elementary school Doug went to. $500K. yeah.....

Well...that's about a wrap for what we've been up to...here's what we know. We miss Spikey Kat and are so entirely grateful to Sammy and Sharon for taking care of her ALL this time. I am THRILLED that I've found my Soap on the Internet, in it entirety without commercials, and now my favorite neighbors across the street won't have to come home from work to find me and my kids in their house watching ...

This is just a quick check in and a PHEWWWWW...for those of you following. WE are here all in one piece and so happy to see Doug. I will update more later and add pics of our last two days. Thanks to everyone for your well wishes. We will be here investigating the area for about three weeks (if Peter and Thelma can tolerate the "wrecking crew #2". Check back for more later.

Sheri, Mara, Zoe & Dess

Day 15.Up early this morning for the pancake breakfast. 2 HUGE pancakes some bacon and juice- Enough for all of us. We took the Rv to the park and ride about 5 miles away. parked the Rv for free and bought a 1$ bus ticket to the train station. We got the train station and were purchasing the tickets. As the tickets were being printed here comes the train. It was close- the last ticket was being printed and we had to grab ...

... and off the subways. That was a good idea until it rained and we were on the top of a double decker bus with no top! ha! They did provide ponchos so we didn't get too wet and it didn't rain very long so the rest of the tour was great. When we got back to time square we walked around Time Square and ate at Hardrock NY cafe. We decided to take a ride on a subway ...

It's a whirlwind trip ~ & now I know what holidays were like for Mike growing up. Judy's place is modern & homey, and I'm ashamed to say I crashed on the loveseat due to jetlag in the midst of the Burns family get-together : / Still, Judy's a helluva hostess and served up some righteous viddles.

... on Route 9, crossing the Hudson River via the Franklin D. Roosevelt Mid-Hudson Bridge. By now the fog had lifted and the sun had come out but it was still bitterly cold. The KOA is situated just on the edge of Catskill Park, about 10 miles away from Woodstock. On the way there, we debated whether it was the Woodstock. (Neil didn’t reckon it was, but Mel was pretty certain it was and had to find it on Wikipedia later in the day to prove it!)

We arrived at the campsite ...

... that included electric. It’s a little further north than we ideally want to go, but it’s always an option.

Because we didn’t want to get embroiled in the sprawling Metropolis of New York which basically begins right over the State line from Connecticut, we took Highway 1 as far as New Haven, where we drove past parts of Yale University and then began to head inland on the 34 towards Danbury. Although there was a Wal-Mart ...

... I thought I was going to die were tiny compared the number of times I thought I'd never had so much fun. But don't the two go hand in hand?

That said, I had a super time climbing. And New Paltz is a sweet little town to take a trip to. Beautiful cliffs to climb, and a great funky little town to eat recovery cheeseburgers in. Great, that is, if you can get past those accents...

... was VERY live, much to the chagrin of everyone present - performers and audience alike were commenting afterwards about how much reverb there was, making it difficult to hear clarity in both music and the between-pieces speaking we did. oh well! could have been worse; we could have been amplified. post concert dinner was delicious, at a place called The Big Easy Bistro. yum!