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Reiki

Thursday, October 09, 2003 - 02:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'll be in midtown Manhattan on Saturday morning waiting in line for discount tickets to Gypsy. Saturday afternoon I will hopefully be enjoying getting to see Bernadette Peters in person. Not sure about Saturday evening yet, but it may include fruity drinks somewhere.

Schoolmarm

Thursday, October 09, 2003 - 02:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Dang, I wish I were going to be in Midtown Manhattan! Only if we go on strike, will I have time for an extra road trip.

Bernadette is FANTASTIC in that show! Enjoy!

Ginger1218

Thursday, October 09, 2003 - 04:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Reiki, I won't be able to see you this weekend, will you only be in for the weekend?
You will absolutely love Gypsy, it is fantastic and she is fantastic.

Tess

Thursday, October 09, 2003 - 11:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Spy, I saw that!!!

thanks Glenn

Sia

Friday, October 10, 2003 - 12:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Spygirl, Bobbie from Columbus has been wanting to get together there. Why don't you contact her. I have her e-mail addy, but it's probably in her profile, too. :)

Cjr

Friday, October 10, 2003 - 04:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Spygirl, I wish I was going to be in Toledo to meet with you! My grandparents and cousins and Aunts and Uncles all live there and It's been 3 years this month since I have been back. I'm jealous!!

Tntitanfan

Friday, October 10, 2003 - 12:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Monday, September 8
Despite the gloomy weather we lost our hearts to the wonderful historic architectural treasures that abound in Savnnah's public buildings and private homes. The orginal layout of hte city was planned around squares one block on a side. Some of these were designed to be surrounded by public buildings and others for private residences. Starting in 1955 the Historic Savannah Foundation began one of the country's first and most successful restroation projects. Of the 24 original squares, 21 remain today. Another one downtown near the Coty Market is now a parking garage on which the lease is due to run out in
2004. It is hoped to restore this area into the 22nd square. The sites of the 23rd and 24th squares are municipal buildings and lost forever, I guess.

Today we took a trolley tour around town. We like these because you can get off and on as many times as you wish during the trip. We got off first at St. John's Cathedral - a gorgeous place with the most amazing stained glass windows! A 7 and a half million dollar restoration had just been conpleted there.

We reboarded and rode a few more stops before jumping off and walking to Lady and Sons for lunch. We were a little early so we had a chance to check out the City Market area nearby. Lunch was wonderful - worth waiting the two days for!! The place presently seats 95, but there are moving soon to a site that will accomodate about 300 at a sitting. I'll bet they still stay crowded!!

We walked back and reboarded the trolley where we got off and finished out the tour, admiring more of the city and making a final stop at River Street to check out the stores there. We were fortuate to have excellent guides on all three laps of the tour so felt we were quite knowledgable about all things Savannah!!

Tuesday, September 9
Finally we saw sunshine! Finally we saw the ocean! We had seen the St. Mary's River, the Intracoastal Waterway, and the Savannah River, but today on Hilton Head was the first ocean vista. We drove out onto the island and to one of the four public beaches. There are 22 public and private golf courses on the island, so land is really at a premium. The whole road around the island is one long string of places to shop, modestly hidden behind shrubbery and palm trees.

The water was nice and warm, and the beach was very clean. I was delighted to see matting over the soft sand out to where the sand was frimly packed so that wheelchair users could have good access to the shoreline. I had just seen the concept the night before on TV and thought what a very good idea it was, so it was nice to see that it was already in use and not just a plan!!

After making our way off-island, we just HAD to stop at the factory stores along the highway!

Wednesday, September 10
We spent the night in Point South and tooled over to Beaufort - pronouced Bewfort in SC. The same spelling is (correctly) pronounced Bowfort in NC. There are a large number of pre-Revolutionary War home still in use there. We did a walking tour along Bay Street and a driving tour in another section of town. I loved the cemetary at St. Helena's Episcopal Church. I am fascinated by old cemetaries anyway, but this one was of particular interest because it was used as a hospital during the Civil War and the waist-high tombs outside served as impromptu operating tables!

We drove on to Mt. Pleasant, a suburb of Charleston, that afternoon. Our motel was located across the Cooper River via an OLD scary bridge. I don't like bridges, and this one - and its companion which provided access back across the river - are right up there with my lifetime least favorites! A new bridge is now under construction, and not a moment too soon!!

Reader234

Friday, October 10, 2003 - 04:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My team mate Lancecrossfire is needed to start a roadtrip, I am at the Sydney opera house in Adven's thread, and I'm desperately searching nooks and crannies for where he may venture...

Halfunit

Saturday, October 11, 2003 - 08:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Last evening, I was able to meet up with Smokey.

As you may already know, Smokey painted a custom picture for a surpise gift for my mom's birthday present.

While the crux of our meeting was a business transaction in a parking lot , I could tell that Smokey is an extremely talented, gifted, and super nice person (and her daughter is following in her footsteps!).

She said she has been on the BB boards for years, but has only started to discover the other areas here. I hope you stick around Smokey, as others would enjoy meeting you as I did!!!


SmokeyHalf

Juju2bigdog

Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 04:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Have arrived in Prague and found an internet place a couple doors down from the apt. Isnt that lucky? We even managed to take a bus to the subway, then change trains, then get off in a neighborhood, get lost, ask somebody directions with neither of us speaking the language, and arrived at our apartment, which is just cute as can be, although we can§t make out if we are in a slum or just a working class neighborhood. Oh well, I am sure it will be fine. We are both absolutely dead, though. Haven§t slept in quite some time and need to stay awake for manz more hours. I made it by coming here, but Bigdog is napping in the apartment. Afraid he will get his szstem reallz out of whack. If zou see a bunch of random z§s in mz posts, that is because y and z are switched on this kezboard. Haven§t figured out yet where the apostrophe is.

Twinkie

Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 05:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Juju, I can't wait to see some pics of your wonderful vacation! Funny how no matter how the keys are switched I can still read exactly what you are trying to say. Once when I was IM'g with Sasha he had forgotten to switch his keyboard from Georgian to English but I got to see what a gorgeous language it was. Couldn't understand a word though. LOL

Kstme

Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 08:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh, Juju, what a fabulous experience you and Bigdog are going to have. Should the neighborhood be considered 'rustic?' Get some rest, take some pics and have a great time!

Egbok

Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 12:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hi Juju, I enjoyed your first report from Prague! Loved the different keystrokes and like Twinkie, I could follow along too.

Are you sure BigDog was napping in the apartment while you were posting your report? I'd swear that this was him I saw....


BigDog

Spygirl

Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 06:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hello from Toledo! hey! that rhymed!

I'm checking email in the hotel business center before crawling into bed and calling this a weekend.

I had the most wonderful time with my brother, sil, and the group he sings with...and have to admit that I shed a couple or three tears when I had to say goodbye to them all. What an incredible group of people. They performed tonight at one of the guy's home church and did a recording of the live performance for a praise and worship CD. There was such an incredible atmosphere during the recording. Awesome!

My flight leaves out in 9.5 hours, so I'd better get some sleep. Bye!

Abby7

Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 08:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hi: I just wanted to take the time to thank all of you who share photos and/or stories of your road trips.

I, for one, truly enjoy each and every story. Thank you so much.

abby

Tess

Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 11:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yup, Eggie. That's Bigdog. Looks just like him.

notice the lady in the background checking him out, too. told you he was a cutie.

Weinermr

Monday, October 13, 2003 - 12:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yeah, but which end is she looking at?

Tess

Monday, October 13, 2003 - 12:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
With Bigdog, it's all good.

Tntitanfan

Monday, October 13, 2003 - 06:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thursday, September 11
We found the Visitor's Center - very attractive in an old railroad terminal - with no problems and were able to get right on a bus tour. Charleston is such lovely city! There are many antebellum homes as well as some very lavish Victorians to enjoy.

One interesting point about many of the old homes is that they are turned end-wise to the street. The theory about this is that perhaps street footage was taxed! The Battery, the waterfront along the edge of the historic district, offers wonderful views of the harbor.

We got the tour driver to drop us off at the City Market to do some shopping. The Gullah baskets are just amazing - as are their prices! There were Gullah weavers on street corners as well as at the market, and I stopped to watch one lady work for a while. Her nimble fingers fairly flew!

One of my former host families from my exchange student days lives in Charleston, so I called them to make plans to get together over the weekend. They were always one of my favorite families and are just as lovely now as then!

Friday, September 12
We made an early start over to Patriot's Point to tour the various ships moored there. The largest was the aircraft carrier Yorktown, which housed a virtual "city" of 3000 men. The submarine "Clamagore" was my first visit to a sub. This vessel was home to 80 men, with many of the bunks spread among the torpedo racks. Not for me!

There was a reunion group visiting the destroyer "Liffey." I'll bet those guys could tell some tales! By the time we finished touring the Coast Guard cutter "Ingham," I was pretty well boated out! Our visits required much climbing and descending of ladders - by the last ship I was backing down those suckers!

Saturday, September 13
I bravely ventured alone over the dreadful bridge to visit my friends. Now there was a real test of friendship!! We hunted fossil sharks' teeth on one beach and admired an old lighthouse from another, talking as fast as we could to catch up on three years' worth of news. A very pleasant day capped off with a daunting drive "home" again -

Juju2bigdog

Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - 11:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Latest tidbit posted over in mz members folder, too lazy to copz it over. If anzbodz wants to do that, it is fine. Not going to correct these z and y, since you all can read through them, and it is too tedious.

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HI everzbodz, checking in again. Everything here looks like a postcard. It is just amazing. Tess, keep those weather reports coming. It is immensely helpful. We were going to go to Ceskz Krumlov today but were still a bit too jetlagged to get up at 6.30. Or, rather, I was. Bigdog is not sleeping, so he is up at all hours. Not to worry. It will all work out. We walked like a hundred miles todaz, and I made Bigdog climb bridge towers to get pictures, so the poor darling is reallz tuckered out.


<Copied from Juju2bigdog's folder> Mod (22)

Jed245

Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 12:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok all you road trippers I got a question.

I'm thinking about going to virginia beach this year likely gonna go this winter.

Can anyone tell me some names of beaches in or near va. We're going in the winter months because it will be less crowded and we wanna avoid hurricane season.

Any ideas?

Draheid

Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 12:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Just a guess here Jed, but I'll bet there's one called Virginia Beach! :O

Abbynormal

Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 12:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
hahaha Dra! Jed, I took my first trip to Virginia Beach this summer and it is now my most favorite place. I absolutely thought it was the best! It was SO windy there I can't imagine going in the winter and being able to stay out on the beach for long. I hope you love it as much as I did. I'm going back again. A bunch!!

Ladytex

Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 12:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
DS#2 was born while we lived in Virgina Beach. It was wonderful! I loved it (would have loved it more if mil weren't so close).

Squaredsc

Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 01:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
rofl ladyt and dra!