Hilton Cincinnati Airport Florence

Hotel reservations - Done.
House rental reservation - Done.
Airline reservation - Done.
Car Rental - Not yet....

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????"
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 ...

... It will be a rude awakening, for sure!

Tomorrow, we'll drive about 4 hours to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, home of Dolly Parton, Dollywood, the Dixie Stampede, and the gateway to Great Smoky Mountain National Park. We'll stay there two days, so we have a chance to do some leaf-peeping!

Oh - for those of you who enjoy the statistics: We have traveled 3,440 miles in the ...

... Brazil and China, plus a lot of traveling. She'd even done women's group stuff, like working with Afghani women who visited the US.

Wandered around JFK looking for sockets to charge my iPod and laptop, managed to grab some free wireless for about ten minutes after I messed around with browser settings to allow cookies. Mmm cookies.

Flight #3 New York-London Heathrow

I had about three minutes of the ideal way to fly internationally--window seat with ...

... to think of lunch.

Of all the food choices available on interstates, far and away our first choice is Cracker Barrel. ("Good ol' Cracker Barrel") They have a winning if perhaps a bit hokey formula with their brown western style one story buildings with a wide front porch lined with rocking chairs, an imposing raised hearth stone fireplace dominating one end of the uniformly huge dining area, and those walls festooned with "memorabilia" - old ...

... really know what you're doing on that one?!

Also figured out it's going to be one GIANT birthday celebration while there for Patryk, Jim, and Malia! The planning for the trip is just as much as the trip itself. Found an awesome website that posted an article on driving that has me glad I won't be doing the driving! This "must read" is at: http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/A travel/Driving1.html

Here's to the next part of planning the trip!

Dayton to Atlanta
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Atlanta to Seattle
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...and here is why... I have another trip coming up in October to Colorado Springs for a Compassion International conference. I usually fly from either Cincinnati or Dayton - I have bee thinking that I leave from Cincinnati tomorrow at 6am ...

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T his is a link to my website describing what the company TNT Resorts does. They are a fraudulent company that will do anything to get your money. It is set up to look like a regular hotel booking website but it is not, please don't be fooled.

... Nordis made this almost every day for either lunch or dinner. If you go to an Indian restaurant here in the states its often referred to as Roti. I found that Chapati was a bigger bread and was great for rolling jelly in for breakfast and on occasion when we had peanut butter.

... we would have heard, "Yo man, whats the wood fo?"

We finally found our way and headed west on I70.

Grandma note: We arrived at Carolyn's (Lesli's friend) around 1am. We were all too tired to be very friendly. After a detailed tour of their house (!) we bedded down for the night for the first sleep in our traveling home. Brett and Lesli in the back bedroom and Cleo and I over the ...