Ecuador

I should’ve done more research although I am glad we went. However, we found out that in the Galapagos “rainy season” means “hot, humid season.” Charlie keeps reminding me that the highlands of Santa Cruz Island are more lush and rainy than the southern coastal town of Puerto Ayora where we stayed. Still, our weather…

Leo

Wayne’s dad, Leo Kruger, died Friday.  I prepared this obituary. Leo Henry Kruger, age 93, of Cocoa Beach, Florida, died Friday, May 6, 2016. He was born April 18, 1923, in Germany to Henry and Olga (Klose) Kruger. He immigrated as an infant with his parents to the United States where they settled in a…

“‘Go home,’ said the man in the moon. ‘Go home.'”

I’m so glad I listened to my inner John Denver and came home after 20 months of wandering. On the Road  It’s hard to believe we’ve only been home two months.  So much has happened, and we’re so happy to live in this beautiful Denver neighborhood.  Our friend Patti picked us up at the Denver…

Galway, Aran Islands, and the Cliffs of Moher

We took a 2-hour and 20-minute train ride from Dublin to Galway Tuesday morning.  After checking in early to our hotel, we walked a mile and a half up a city hill lined with gas stations and industrial-looking buildings to a restaurant.  After we ate a filling lunch, we walked out to the parking lot where…

St. Patrick’s Day

One of our neighbors started BLARING horrible techno-pop and talking and laughing loudly at 4:30 this morning.  This went on for about 40 minutes, and then we didn’t hear another peep.  I don’t know what that was about.  In the late morning the bells of St. Patrick’s Cathedral pealed for maybe an hour.  Then we…

Wicklow

Friday morning we went on another group tour, this time in a large van to Wicklow, south of Dublin.  I have a hard time staying awake as a passenger on a road trip and slept through about half of yesterday’s travels.  I’m 42 going on 2, I guess.  Our 70-year-old driver, John, spoke into a microphone,…

Belfast, Giants Causeway, rope bridge

We left our apartment at 6:40 am today and walked to a Starbucks near Trinity College where we and at least a dozen others got on a tour bus at 7 am bound for Belfast.  In Belfast our group split up into taxis to tour the city while a few others in the group chose…

Irish Whiskey Museum, St. Stephen’s Green, Kilmainham Gaol

We toured the Irish Whiskey Museum Friday, and I got to taste three varieties at the end.  It’s smooth!  (Unlike scotch which we learned is smoky tasting.  I’m not a spirits conneissur, so all the info was new to me.)  We learned: 1. The term “wake” for an Irish funeral comes (supposedly) from a time when…