Above all else, we are looking forward to hugging Cody, playing with Manolo, seeing our home and seeing Shea and Tessa later in the summer. We look forward to sleeping in our own bed! And I simply cannot wait to dig in my garden, rid it of the jungle of weeds that surely must be thriving there and plant some tomatoes, peppers and beans—maybe a young eggplant too. And what joy I will have in potting flowers for the porch and the deck. We wore long pants, l...

The Ring of Kerry is a scenic highway that circles the lovely Iveragh Peninsula in the county of Kerry. It is a part of Ireland's famous Wild Atlantic Way highway and offers wide views of the North Atlantic Ocean, Dingle Bay to the north and Kenmare River to the south. What a fierce, rugged but gorgeous stretch of land and coast! Ireland!! Ireland!! What a wonderful place! I am not going into great detail about today's drive; it was a full day on narro...

My favorite kind of day. Day breaks very early here - not as early as in Northern Ireland but 1.5 hours earlier than what Stan and I are accustomed to in Atlanta this time of year. Many of our rented apartments have black-out shades. This one does not. We woke a wee bit after 5 am - to say it like the Irish do. Honestly they really do regularly say "wee bit" in Ireland!!! At home, the light would prevent me from going back to sleep but no, not here. The ...

Time to move once again -- this our last. The next big move willl be to board a plane back to Atlanta. First we said goodbye to our host in Galway. Ernie owns perhaps a whole city block. Everyone in Galway knows Ernie, and what a great guy he is! He is probably younger than us but he wears a shop-keeper's apron and sets his glasses way down on the tip of his nose so he can see you eye-to-eye above the specs in real world fashion and then peer through the ...

First on the agenda was turning in the paperwork for the rental car. Actually we had dropped-off the car last night because our day trip was done and we had no place to park the car at our apartment. Since the Budget office was closed for the evening, we could not complete the return at that time. We walked to the Budget office in the morning. Once downtown, we decided to stay. We walked the streets east to west, west to east and vice versa, north to south....