Wednesday, October 8, 2008 Tokyo I awoke at 2:30 a.m. and was unable to get back to sleep. And so, I was the first one to breakfast this morning. While waiting for them to open the restaurant, I met a few of my fellow travelers. On couple from Houston, Carol and Charles were in the lobby using the Internet at $1.00 for 10 minutes. I am going to have to check to make sure there is no charge for using the internet in my room. I met another very nice couple n...

We set our GPS to guide us to the Corvette museum in Bowling Green. We took some photos on the outside and Pat started talking to one of several men who had their Corvettes parked out front. They were part of a club from Illinois who had traveled to Kentucky to visit the museum and tomorrow the manufacturing plant. This is the only Corvette plant in the world. They even have it that if you buy a new Corvette, part of the price includes airfare to the plant where ...

May 17, 2008 We woke early and headed out about 7:30 going north to Elizabethtown or as the locales call it "E-town". We set out GPS to find the location of the Schmidt Museum of Coca-Cola Memorabilia. It did not take nearly as long to get there as we thought it would. We discovered that the museum would not open until 10:00 and so we decided to visit the historic downtown. I was excited to find signs outside the courthouse (Hardin County) about one ...

May 16, 2008 Well I definitely wish I could say that our travel from Phoenix to Louisville was uneventful but it was. About 1 hour from our arrival we encountered turbulence as we have never experienced. The plane violently shook from side to side and Pat thought the plane would just shake apart. Pat was not happy with our rental car saying it is way too small. It is a Chevy Cobalt. I think it drives fine and will certainly get good gas mileage... We had...

July 9, 2005 Apparently we missed the excitement during the night. Almost everyone was awakened at 1:30 a.m. with their tent shaking. All thought it was an animal attacking their tent. It turned out to be an earthquake and Phebe and I slept right through it. We headed to the airstrip saying our last goodbyes to a large herd of zebras, wildebeests, giraffes and warthogs. When at the strip we had to cross the runway to go to the pit toilets. The plane w...