Hampton Inn & Suites Kalamazoo-Oshtemo

Mr & Mrs Aaron Dieringer! Tom's eldest daughter (and his new son!) celebrated their nuptials, gathering together with family and friends on October 30, 2009 in a charming country barn. Family and friends came from far and near. The ...

... a good show this morning. We played Chenery Auditorium, which was a beautiful space. Sadly, it was undergoing renovations, so the actors didn't have real dressing rooms, but it is going to be a great place to play in a couple of months.

Now we're headed West again, and into Central time for 2 more shows before heading South again :)

The color of Fall in Michigan was so spectacular, with greater variety of trees than I have ever seen before.








































Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States jackies-world

While in Michigan we took the time to demo the Firelinx Wireless Firing System at opening night of the Kwings Hockey game.

We secured each firing module on a board with the slat and product to make getting it on and off the ice as ...

On the way back to the airport the traffic on the freeway was slow enough to take decent photo's of downtown, except the haze downtown looked more like an industrial district and required severe photoshoping to get the buildings to stand out.

... thank you note. Crafted by Marie Knapp for Maureen McCarthy, the State of Grace Document, as it has now come to be known, has been shared with thousand of people around the world. After learning about her own rare and potentially fatal disease at a very young age, Maureen was inspired to bring this message to the world.

(Frank and I met Maureen at Old St.Pat's Church in Chicago some ...

... time we pulled into a Country Inn and Suites we had racked up 625 miles for the day. We are both pretty tired but again, the weather was great, the roads were very good and we had a fun day. Tomorrow we will have a short ride into Niagara Falls (the Canadian side) and we have booked a great room as a treat for getting this far in the trip. Our good friends Nita and Cactus ...

... pointed our agent to the Mediterranean, Adriatic & Aegean trip with Voyages of Discovery, with shore excursions in Portugal, Gibraltar, Spain, France, Italy, Sicily, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece, and Turkey. Prior to boarding ship, we leave for two nights in London on August 31st and return October 2nd. Truly a trip of a life time!

... and her family hosted us for dinner. We did burgers (again. Lots of meat in MI) and watched a terrible yet entertaining show on MTV (Tila Tequila). We also enjoyed a few cranberry martinis- yum yum yum Saturday morning, Mom, Cynthia and I went to the Kalamazoo Farmer's Market. Mom was so excited to find it after enjoying the Madison one so much. It's smaller but has lots of goodies. Then Cynthia and I met up with our friend from college ...

... while I am glad I have a personal tour guide who can show me the important toursit things (like the twin Petronas Towers), and throw in the obscure, out-of-the-way local delights. And for all of you out there asking yourselves, "What the heck is she going to Java for, anyway?" - here is the website for the place where I will be studying: http://www.antenaprojects.org/ I will be taking four art workshops with local ...