Category Travel

2025-12-28 It is a Sunday. We get picked up by the Scotsman who does not drink whisky or golf, but is pale and talks kinda funny. The new Lexus is quite nice. It doesn’t go in pure EV mode for…

2025-May-02 I worked on the brick with Paul in the morning. The car when in ‘park’ is not in park. Hopefully if we fix the shifting the car will get out of limp mode. It will only rev to 2000…

2024-Dec-23 Man it is early, as 4:15am alarm goes off on the latest and greatest iPhone. I put on my pre arranged clothing laid out the night before when I packed. Niamh’s 2024 flood car didn’t arrive on Friday so…

July 15 I work all day. We get picked up by the gruber who takes us to SFO. We leave on Virgin at 10:20 to Heathrow. I stay up all flight and watch two series, the dead detective boys on…

2024-FEB-17 Oh my goodness it is 4am and we set an alarm to wake us. Lame. Our plane leaves at 6am to LAX. Corey arrives and lets himself in at 4:30. We leave at 5:10 a little past our estimation…

Sunday August 6, 2023 The food was horrible. We we in row 26, but some guy didn’t want the emergency row so I volunteered to sit with extra leg room. I had an orange juice, roll, and a bit of…

Tuesday August 1, 2023 Anywho, we were much closer to baggage claim this time only 1 fast walkway and an escalator down to claim number 12 which was directly across from the exit, and only a short walk to door…

Friday, July 28, 2023 We arrived! A little man greeted us at the airport and we got off our small plane. It was us 6 and another couple. On the bus ride from the plane to arrivals he asked how…

Monday July 24, 2023 We land and I’m in the front row of an 8 passenger plane. Push up with left hand and pull down with right. Ok no problem. We see Mount Kilimanjaro, at least the top of it…

Sunday July 16, 2023 We have arrived at 2am and I feel bad. Like physically not mentally. Oh we need to show our boarding pass to get to the next checkpoint. Then we get a temperature check. We passed. I…