remembrance of travels past

Eating at The View - the revolving restaurant in New York City A section of the Buffet desserts The napkins had the exploded view of the buildings that one was seeing and the waitress was very good about pointing them out. Napkin at The View The bill was $112+ for the three of us. From...

Posters at the History Center Ship posters My back was sore, and I was beginning to have trouble walking, so we got a wheelchair and my grandson pushed me around. He had a very fast and somewhat jerky style. My sister OTOH tended to push slowly but not be aware of where the chair was exactly...

I took pictures of the Staten Island Ferry (which since it is free, I had some idea that I might take that). I went down to use the bathroom just before we docked, Signs on the boat and people getting off and then had to fight my way back upstream (against the people getting off at the...

On my first Grandchild trip we visited New York from my sister's house in Princeton. We took the train. After we were half way there, we realized that we had no maps for NYC, nor any of the printouts that my sister had made last night. So she called my BIL who works in NYC, and he told her to...

- Cathedral Spires Falls Walking down a path Bridge My mom wanted to get a good picture of the reflection in Mirror Lake. So we got up early because the 'mirror' didn't work if there was any wind and we wanted to have the lake be absolutely still. Mirror Lake - me and daughter There...

My parents and I went to a San Jose swap meet Swap meet in front of Model A Ford (1930?) and we visited the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton where my college friend JoAnn was living, View from Lick Observatory Big Dome of observatory JoAnn's family and Bob and my girls At Easter...

In April the Anatomy meetings in San Francisco meant that my father had a book to promote at the meeting. Displaying the Atlas that my father edited He was the American editor of an Atlas of Anatomy. He and my mother flew out to San Francisco, and the girls and I drove up to meet them. We...

In addition to a fireplace, each cottage had a bed or beds small bed by the fire Bed and trunk and hutch or a similar piece of furniture to hold crockery and other such items. Washstand top of a hutch My grandson's photo of me - wheelchair behind me Among the buildings are the Shannon...

The Horizontal Mill is a working corn mill based on findings of an excavation in Mashangla Co. Cork. This type of mill is described in detail in Irish Law texts of a 1000 years ago. Such mills were still in use up to the middle of this century. We didn't go in that mill. Horizontal Mill...

June 2, 2007 The tour offered a 'full Irish breakfast" each morning. At Bunratty, this consisted of a base of scrambled eggs and what they called bacon, but we would call Canadian bacon or ham. I tried to stay away from the salty meats because of the swelling in my ankles, but I ate the eggs. To...

Arriving at Heathrow Since the plane was 5 hours late (we arrived about 11:20), they had to get us off via a stair and bus us in to the terminal. We had missed our 10:30 connecting flight on Aer Lingus and would have to reschedule. The wheelchair man took me to the desk area and then took the...

Then I hobbled down to Times Square where I took some pictures of the billboards. Time's Square Times square Times Square Hard Rock Sightseeing bus in Times Square I think my grandson thought it was cool. We got another cab to Penn Station - my sister paid this one - about $6.00 NY...

After we'd finished there my sister and I went back down the elevator and my grandson went up to the third floor without us. Third floor Grandson with statue of Annie. We would see Annie later on our trip MY sister and I by the statue of Annie -the 1st immigrant Then we got back on the...

Ellis Island from the ferry Private Vehicles Prohibited Ellis Island Center We got off at Ellis Island and picked up the audio tour tapes which my sister had bought as part of the tickets, but they weren't really a big help. I don't like the audio tours - I have a tendency to want to fast...

after many inquiries, we found the right train and the right track and counting to be sure that we were in the first five cars, we got on. Sign in the train prohibiting walking between cars - New York City (Because at Battery Park, only people in the first five cars can exit-there is no...

On the way to my sister's house, We drove through Princeton University Nassau Hall? Then she took us to her house, and she went back to work. we were sleeping upstairs - My grandson was on a cot in my BIL's computer room His photo of his bed My BIL got home before my sister, and we talked...

When Erin first rose by William Drennan When Erin first rose from the dark swelling flood, God bless'd the green island and saw it was good; The em'rald of Europe, it sparkled and shone, In the ring of the world the most precious stone. In her sun, in her soil, in her station thrice blest...

We went back to the campsite for lunch, and the children played in the river. Playing in the river Mule ride - Bob leading the mules In the afternoon, we went up to the top of Sentinel Dome for great views of the park. Sentinel Dome There is a 360 degree view from the top. Falls from...

We stayed in a cabin near Grant Grove and we had to go through snow tunnels that were over our heads to get to the cabin. Our cabin I remember that the only heat there was a wood stove. We had a bear come up on the porch and try to get into the cabin one night. Inside the Fallen Monarch...

Antique Car Club Excursion to Felton Picnic in Felton Coasting contest and participated in a coasting race where free wheeling should have been an advantage. After a couple of months I convinced Bob that we should trade the station wagon on the VW bus. By that time the VW was cheaper...