UMTravels

What is a really good Sunday? Laying around reading magazines in peace and quiet. It was almost like that, but with Raf and Curt snoring. The big event for the day: ribs at Jimmies with the Tres Dindon (Three Turkeys) crew who were crushing several different varieties of grapes all afternoon. Me? I just showed [...]

Slept in until 9, played around with email and whatnot til 10:30, packed up and left Curts and headed to Jack in the Box for that rare combo meal. Yes, I know it isn’t on my diet routine, but after a long poker evening a little grease was just the way to get me going. [...]

Work in the morning, drive a little mid-day, relax in Olympia before cooking dinner for C & B, drink whiskey, play poker, made about $10 which I’m sure covers the whiskey, salad, lamb, bread, and gas. My day in a nutshell. [221.8 but after breakfast]

So far the jet-lag doesn’t seem to be affecting me — of course going to bed dead tired helps. Didn’t even take an Ambian. What a first day back though… Work Grocery Run Jonathan To Try And Fix Dead Main Computer (no, it really is dead) Work Shirts To The Cleaners Meeting With Swanda Open [...]

If you take out all the time changes, I got up at 7pm on Tuesday night, and flew until Wednesday night at 9:30pm. Ouch! First flight – Dublin to Frankfurt (THANKS Mindi for getting up a 4am to take me to the airport). Running late, but not enough to miss my connection. Breakfast on-board was [...]

So much for today’s plan of doing the Hop On/Hop Off tourist bus today. Can you say cold, wet, and drippy? I was out of bed at my usual time on this trip… 10am. That’s a little late (by two hours) for me, but it allows both Jeff and Mindi to get through their morning [...]

What a lovely lazy day in Dublin. My goal for today? Getting the fixings for dinner. 3 lovely peppered steaks for the bar-b-gue, a bottle of South Africa Pinotage, a little more whiskey… and it truly is a lovely day. The meat came from a butcher just a 15 minute walk from here (yes, I [...]

Anyone who reads this blog knows how much I travel. Today I experienced a flight delay like no other. We had a plane, the weather was good, we had all the crew we needed and we were making a quick stop to pick up more passengers when the aircraft was hijacked/commandeered, what ever you’d like [...]

Before I go into lunch details — I’ve been meaning to talk money. As in the Exchange Rate. Here is what my dollar is worth to the Euro: 1.00 EUR = 1.45741 USD Euro � United States Dollars 1 EUR = 1.45741 USD � 1 USD = 0.686150 EUR Here is that my dollar is [...]

A lazy morning around the house with Mark. Mark’s boyfriend Nigel is due later in the afternoon to join us for dinner, but first — today’s tourist activity. The Plymouth Gin distillery in lovely old town Plymouth, England. It was a lovely tour — in fact, I do believe that it ranks near the top [...]

Saint Mindi ran me to the airport this morning — me feeling a bit worse for wear from last night’s festivities. Got to the airport in plenty of time (yes, I know me to the airport early). It was your basic Dash 8-300 regional prop plane for the 1 hour flight to Plymouth. On the [...]