Aloha from the Big Island

Kim and I along with my sister and my cousin along with Kim's aunt and cousin with her family are enjoying the paradise of the Pacific. We're staying in Kona and our condo is right on the beach or I might say more correctly on a lava flow at the waters edge.

Blast Off

While house and dog sitting for our son and his SO, I went down to Titusville and watched the space shuttle launch...Wow!

New Orleans Jazz Fest 2010

Had a great time with my cousin Doc Marty at the NOLA Jazz Fest. Three days of great New Orleans food and music! This was a "boy's weekend"...I think it was the first for Marty and I...Thanks Kim and Marilyn...we love you!!

Great Football Weekend in Louisiana

I had a wonderful time in Louisiana with my cousin Marty, his son Garret and friend Tom. It's great when you get to see two winning games in one weekend, especial when on of the games involves the New Orleans Saints!

The Travel Blogger is back!

OK, we fell behind on the blog, ok, we abandoned the blog! We left St Louis on 14 August and made our way up to Zion, Illinois, which is right on the border with Wisconsin, to attend our son's girlfriend's mom's wedding. Very nice ceremony and reception at a historic 18th century coach inn (now a private home) which belongs to the groom's best friend. We then made it back to Virginia safe and sound in late August, but Kim had to turn around and go back to St. Louis to take care of her mom, who fell ill, and her grandma. That made me a geo-bachelor, so what did I do, well I'm in New Orleans, Louisiana, today waiting for my cousin, Marty to arrive so we can go the the LSU football game on Saturday and the Saints game on Sunday...of course there's going to be some consumption of Cajun food along the way!!

Visiting Relatives in the St Louis, Missouri area

During the past week we have been in the St Louis area visiting relatives. We will be heading north to attend a wedding in Illinois and then we will start our last leg of our trip back to Virginia.

Heading to St Louis via Kansas, 05 August 2009

Well, the kid's trip to the west is almost over. Just a couple of more stops in a small town in Kansas to visit their departed relatives at the Nortonville cemetery and then off to Topeka to see their great aunts and uncle. We're all be back in St Louis on Thursday, 06 August, just in time for Brian and Amber to register for school.