UMTravels

Pardon the copy and paste, but a personal letter seems like a great dual post:

Spent my birthday in St. Thomas, in the US Virgin Islands doing absolutely nothing but eating and looking out at the sea. Here are a couple of representative pictures that I haven’t end had time to blog yet.

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Lots of stairs, often called for the cart to haul me up the hill, since I was at the top. My unit was the lower protruding balcony, and the final shot is of Thursday when the rains came in heavy, and the power went out for 20 minutes while they got the generator running and switched back to island power about 4 hours later.

Got back the night before Will and Solus showed up to spend the night before heading off to Dublin on their honeymoon. Lovely dinner, and great to reconnect with Will on a more personal level. The next day we all went to the airport together, first picture below, in the lounge.

Then it was off to hang out with Paul in Yucca Valley, which is north and west of Palm Springs by about 45 minutes.

Paul and I have known our AirBnB host since she was a kid living at the Last Resort up in Hansville with her parents. Paul got the last car off the rental lot which is why we ended up with a muscle car. Host is also an accomplished accordion repairperson and performer, equestrian (hence the horses). $200 a night, but well stocked.

Couple of shots from our day trip to Joshua Tree.

To be honest, the back-to-back trips between chemo sessions was a little taxing.

Brother Jon showed up last night for a couple of nights before he goes off to India and Nepal for a month of “work”.

My next trip is to upstate New York to see a mansion that friends bought – that should yield some wild pictures for you.

Hope all is as well as it can be with you all.

Mark