Sleep Inn , Inn & Suites Lakeside Columbus

... our nice hotel the nights before.

Our show in Triton MS was wonderful. Kids were in testing that day, so the school's counselor (our contact person) helped us set up and tear down. The three of us worked very well!
We learned that this was the first year Camfel had been there. Previously, the school had invited another ...

... course I plan on visiting the Rhein river valley!! I read in my guidebook that one can take a boat down the Rhein and there are many castles on all sides. I would love this, provided I have enough time and money.

I have also already reserved a Gasthof (much like a bread and breakfast) on the outskirts of Munich during Oktoberfest! This is sure to be a good time.

Well, I'm at work now and its starting up again. More later!!

So now I've got a car, I can go where I want instead of having to rely on buses and trains. I decided to visit a friend of mine in Indiana. Burke was a little out of the way on my route to Colorado, but I'm in no rush. I met her house hunting in Belfast last year, we went to look at a flat together and kinda stayed in touch since. She lives in Bloomington which is a University town, so I thought it would be cool to be ...

Visited Columbus and Chicago this trip. The weather was cool, averaging between 28 deg. F and 40 deg. F. All the leaves had fallen and so had to get someone to come and blow all the leaves. The economic scenario is depressed and that shows in most places one travels to at this time. Malls and shops are not deserted but not half as lively as they were at the same time this year. Lots of construction on ...

... out, then drive to new city can take a toll on us, so it was nice to just have to drive today and then tomorrow just 1 show.  Our show tomorrow is at the Park Theatre Civic Center in North Vernon, IN. Then I believe it's a 4 hour drive to Ashland, KY after the show. Just went to take me clothes out of the washer to put them in the dryer and I def put the bleach in the wrong washer. Now I have some very multi-color  under-wear.  Yeah, I'm sleepy. Good nIght.

Abigail Lynn entered this world at 8:42 a.m. today, Wednesday, July 9, 2008. She is beautiful and healthy at 10 lbs, 8 oz, 21.5 in long and has captured our hearts. My beautiful sister, Stephanie, amazed me with her strength today. While I was wiped out by 4pm, she kept moving and directing her little family that now boasts 6. It has been a joy to watch them in a new light these past few days. I ...

Well here we go. I am leaving for New Zealand in less than a week, and by looking around my room, I certainly have a lot left to do! I have always been a procrastinator and I am trying to break this mold by being totally prepared for international travel in less than a week! Wish me luck!

... if someone took a big city and shoved it into a small town setting. Everything is clean and well kept with lots of sidewalks and people out and about quite a lot. However, with all it's charm, Bloomington is more or less in the middle of nowhere. It's about a 45 minute drive from the interstate on a highway with really nothing on it. Because of this I feel it's going to be even more ...

... it was really getting cold. Finally, everything was done and we got back on the road heading south! We stopped at Mammoth Caves in Kentucky. We stayed at the Diamond Caves RV park and met Jan and John Burgoin from Ontario, Canada. They told us that they had been spending their winters in Brownsville, TX and that we should check it out. We also figured that it was about as far south as we could get, so we told them we'd look them up when we got there.

... s music heritage with country music from yesterday and today during live shows every Friday and Saturday. We opted to attend the Friday night performance. We were picked up by Gray Line Tours (Pat is a real funny female driver formerly from Boston. You can appreciate her accent when it is mixed in with the southern twang). Featured artists at the Opry were Porter Wagoner, The Whites, Billy Walker, Alecia Nugent, Little Jimmy Dickens (can you believe he is still ...